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Mickle Trafford

Mickle Trafford is a village in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England.

Mickle Trafford
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The place

Mickle Trafford is a village in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England. It is the main village in the civil parish of Mickle Trafford and District. The A56 road from Chester to Warrington passes through the village and the Chester-Warrington railway line passes immediately to its east. In 2011, the parish of Mickle Trafford had a population of 1,822.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mickle Trafford

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Chester Zoo

    Chester Zoo is a zoo in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family.

    3.5 km · zoological garden at Upton-by-Chester, in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints' Church, Hoole

    All Saints Church, Hoole, is in Hoole Road, Hoole, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the diocese of Chester, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.4 km · grade II listed church in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holy Ascension Church, Upton by Chester

    Holy Ascension Church is in Church Lane, Upton-by-Chester, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the diocese of Chester.

    3.7 km · grade II listed church in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Columba's Church, Chester

    St Columba's is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Newton, Chester. It was built from 1964 to 1965.

    2.9 km · church in Chester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St James' Church, Christleton

    St James' Church is in the village of Christleton, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    4 km · Grade II* listed church in Christleton, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Bartholomew's Church, Barrow

    St Bartholomew's Church is in the village of Great Barrow in the civil parish of Barrow, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    2.8 km · Grade II* listed church in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hoole Hall

    Hoole Hall is a former country house located to the north of Chester, Cheshire, England. It originated as a small house in about 1760, built for the Rev John Baldwin.

    2.2 km · grade II listed English country house in Mickle Trafford and District, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Chester Zoo monorail

    The Chester Zoo monorail was an internal transport system at Chester Zoo that operated from 1991 to 2019.

    3.3 km · transport system at Chester Zoo in England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Oakfield Manor

    Oakfield Manor was originally a country house in Upton-by-Chester, near Chester, Cheshire, England. Since the 1930s it has been the headquarters of Chester Zoo.

    3.1 km · country house in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St John the Baptist's Church, Guilden Sutton

    St John the Baptist's Church is in the village of Guilden Sutton, near Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    1.5 km · grade II listed church in Guilden Sutton, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Mickle Trafford

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 13 km · Manchester (MAN), 39 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 106 km
Stations
Dunham Hill railway station, 3.8 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Mickle Trafford
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Mickle Trafford
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Mickle Trafford
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mickle Trafford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mickle Trafford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Chester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    259 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    301 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    338 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    361 km

If you know how people move in Mickle Trafford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Mickle Trafford

Mickle Trafford is 23 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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