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Mow Cop

Mow Cop is a village on the Cheshire-Staffordshire border, England, 24 miles (39 km) south of Manchester and 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Stoke-on-Trent, on a steep hill of the same name rising to 335 metres (1,099 ft) above sea level.

Mow Cop
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The place

Mow Cop is a village on the Cheshire-Staffordshire border, England, 24 miles (39 km) south of Manchester and 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Stoke-on-Trent, on a steep hill of the same name rising to 335 metres (1,099 ft) above sea level. The village is at the edge of the southern Pennines, with the Cheshire Plain to the west.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mow Cop

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
    Little Moreton Hall

    Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a manor house 4.5 miles south-west of Congleton in Cheshire, England. The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–1508 and the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the family until about 1610.

    2.8 km · moated half-timbered manor house near Congleton in England, built between about 1504 and 1610. · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints Church, Scholar Green

    All Saints Church is in the village of Scholar Green in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. It is an Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.

    3.1 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints Church, Church Lawton

    All Saints’ Church stands on a mound close to Lawton Hall in the small village of Church Lawton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton.

    3.7 km · Grade II* listed church in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rode Hall

    Rode Hall, a Georgian country house, is the seat of the Wilbraham family, members of the landed gentry in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. The estate, with the original timber-framed manor house, was purchased by the Wilbrahams from a cousin, Randle Rode in 1669.

    3.6 km · English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Biddulph Town Hall

    Biddulph Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Biddulph, a town in Staffordshire, in England. It currently serves as the meeting place of Biddulph Town Council and as a venue for concerts and other public events.

    2.9 km · municipal building in Biddulph, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Great Moreton Hall

    Great Moreton Hall is a former country house in Moreton cum Alcumlow near Congleton, in Cheshire, England, less than a mile from its better-known near namesake Little Moreton Hall. Designed by Edward Blore, it was built in 1841 by Manchester businessman George Holland Ackers, to replace a large timber-framed building that had been the home of the Bellot family since 1602.

    2.7 km · Grade II* listed country house in the parish of Moreton cum Alcumlow, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Knypersley Hall

    Knypersley Hall is an 18th-century Georgian style country mansion at Biddulph, Staffordshire, England. It is protected as a Grade II* listed building.

    3.1 km · country house in Biddulph, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kidsgrove Town Hall

    Kidsgrove Town Hall is a municipal building in Liverpool Road in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Kidsgrove Town Council, is locally listed.

    3.3 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lawton Hall

    Lawton Hall is a former country house to the east of the village of Church Lawton, Cheshire, England. The building has since been used as a hotel, then a school, and has since been converted into separate residential units.

    3.6 km · grade II listed English country house in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hall Green Branch

    The Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England. It runs for one mile from Kidsgrove to Hall Green, where it makes an end-on junction with the Macclesfield Canal at Hall Green Stop Lock.

    3.3 km · canal in east Cheshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mow Cop

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 27 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 49 km · East Midlands (EMA), 67 km
Stations
Kidsgrove railway station, 3.5 km · Mow Cop and Scholar Green railway station, 1.3 km · Black Bull railway station, 3.2 km · Biddulph railway station, 2.7 km
  • Liverpool → Mow Cop
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Mow Cop
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Mow Cop
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mow Cop

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 Mow Cop. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextAfter taking in the splendid scenery and trekking to your heart's content, either camping out overnight or staying in Buxton, you might want to continue on to Sheffield, another post-industrial Northern city with more to offer than that description suggests.

From Wikivoyage: Congleton, 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

    273 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    277 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    333 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    369 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    394 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mow Cop

Mow Cop is 41 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kidsgrovetown and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Biddulphtown and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, UK3 km
  • Church Lawtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England3.7 km
  • Moreton cum Alcumlowcivil parish in Cheshire East, England2.7 km
  • Newbold Astburyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.6 km
  • Scholar Greenvillage in Cheshire East, Cheshire, UK2.4 km