Middlewich

Worth seeing in and around Middlewich

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
   St Luke's Church, Holmes Chapel

   St Luke's Church is in the village of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England on the A50 road at its junction with the A535 road. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

   5.8 km · church in Holmes Chapel, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   St Michael and All Angels, Middlewich

   St. Michael and All Angels is the parish church for the town of Middlewich in Cheshire, England.

   100 m · church in Middlewich, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Wardle Canal

   The Wardle Canal is the shortest canal in the UK, at 154 feet. The canal, in Middlewich, Cheshire, connects the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, terminating with a single lock known as Wardle Lock.

   500 m · Canal in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Christ Church, Wharton

   Christ Church, Wharton, is in the town of Winsford, Cheshire, England. It is an active evangelical Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Middlewich.

   4.2 km · church in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Chad's Church, Over

   St Chad's Church, Over, is in the town of Winsford, Cheshire, England. It was formerly in the separate town of Over, but with the growth of Winsford it has become part of that town.

   5.6 km · church in Over, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   St Leonard's Church, Warmingham

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

   5.1 km · church in Warmingham, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Moulton War Memorial

   Moulton War Memorial stands in Main Road, Moulton, Cheshire, England. It consists of a marble statue of a soldier standing on a sandstone pedestal, and is surrounded by a wrought iron fence.

   5.9 km · war memorial in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley

   St John the Evangelist's Church is in the small village of Byley, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

   3.6 km · grade II listed church in Byley, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   St Stephen's Church, Moulton

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

   6 km · church in Moulton, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Middlewich Town Hall

    Middlewich Town Hall, also known as Victoria Buildings, is a municipal structure in Lewin Street, Middlewich, Cheshire, England. The building, which was originally commissioned as a technical school and public library, is now the meeting place of Middlewich Town Council.

    100 m · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

The big church in the center of town is considered the main attraction. There are miles of watersways to walk along, The Trent And Mersey canal, as well as several rivers. The town is surrounded by countryside offering bird watchers lots of opportunities, particularly along the Croxton flashes.

1. 01
   St Michael and All Angels

   Church dating from the 12th century, although most of the building work was done between 1480 and 1520.

2. 02
   Wardle Canal

   The shortest canal in the UK, 154 ft (47 m) long, linking the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal.

From Wikivoyage: Middlewich, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Visit during the Folk and Boat weekend, usually the third weekend in June. The whole town explodes with people, events and music. Small fields in the center of town have stalls on them, offering locally brewed beers and scrumpies, as well as the main music tent. The pubs along the side of the canal are usually packed and offer live music too.

From Wikivoyage: Middlewich, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Like many towns in northern England, there are many Indian and Chinese takeaways as well as a few Turkish kebab houses.

From Wikivoyage: Middlewich, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Middlewich

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 21 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 31 km · East Midlands (EMA), 85 km

Stations

Sandbach railway station, 5.7 km · Winsford railway station, 3.5 km · Middlewich railway station, 300 m · Winsford and Over railway station, 5.2 km

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  90 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–14
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  90 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £11–15
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Middlewich

  87 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
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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 Middlewich. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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