Rode Heath
Rode Heath is a small village in the civil parish of Odd Rode, near Alsager and within the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Rode Heath is a small village in the civil parish of Odd Rode, near Alsager and within the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census, Rode Heath had a population of 2,150. In the 2011 census the figure had dropped to 2,019 and a 2016 estimate put the population at 1,943. The village was previously two villages, Rode Heath and Thurlwood. Since extensive housing developments in Thurlwood the two are known simply as Rode Heath.
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Worth seeing in and around Rode Heath
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.
- 01Little 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.
3 km · moated half-timbered manor house near Congleton in England, built between about 1504 and 1610. · Wikipedia - 02All 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.
2.2 km · Grade II* listed church in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Christ Church, Alsager
Christ Church Alsager is in the town of Alsager, Cheshire, England. Its mission is to love God and to love others.
2.4 km · Grade II* listed church in Alsager, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04All 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.
1.8 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Rode 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.
1.3 km · English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Mary Magdalene's Church, Alsager
St Mary Magdalene's Church is in Crewe Road, Alsager, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
2.2 km · Grade II listed church in Alsager, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hassall Hall
Hassall Hall is a former manor house to the east of the village of Hassall, Cheshire, England. The house dates from the 17th century, and was re-fronted in the 19th century.
3.5 km · Grade II* listed house in Hassall, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Lawton 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.
2.4 km · grade II listed English country house in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Great 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.
3.9 km · Grade II* listed country house in the parish of Moreton cum Alcumlow, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Hall 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.
3.9 km · canal in east Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rode Heath
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 26 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 45 km · East Midlands (EMA), 72 km
- Stations
- Alsager railway station, 2.3 km · Mow Cop and Scholar Green railway station, 3.8 km
- Liverpool → Rode Heath56 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rode Heath78 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Rode Heath75 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rode Heath
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 Rode Heath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Rode Heath
Rode Heath is 41 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alsagertown and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.1 km
- Church Lawtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.2 km
- Betchtoncivil parish in Cheshire East, England, UK2.8 km
- Smallwoodvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, UK2.9 km
- Scholar Greenvillage in Cheshire East, Cheshire, UK2.6 km
- Odd Rodecivil parish in Cheshire East, England2.5 km