Strines

Worth seeing in and around Strines

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
   Peak Forest Canal

   The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England. It is 14.8 miles long and forms part of the connected English/Welsh inland waterway network.

   1.3 km · canal in Derbyshire/Cheshire/Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Church of St Martin, Marple

   The Church of St Martin is a 19th-century church on Brabyns Brow in Marple, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It was designed by J. D. Sedding for Maria Anne Hudson, who lived in nearby Brabyns Hall, and was built between 1869 and 1870.

   3.3 km · Grade II* listed church in Marple, Stockport, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   All Saints Church, Marple

   All Saints Church is in Church Lane, Marple, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

   2.2 km · church in Marple, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Bollinhurst Reservoir

   The Bollinhurst Reservoir was constructed in Lyme Park in 1872 for the Stockport District Waterworks Company. At the time of the First World War, it had a capacity of 84.46 million gallons.

   2.7 km · reservoir in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Brabyns Park

   Brabyns Park is a public park in Marple Bridge, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

   3.9 km · park in England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Marple Lock Flight

   Marple Lock Flight is a flight of sixteen canal locks, situated on the Peak Forest Canal in Marple, a suburb of Stockport.

   3.6 km · flight of sixteen canal locks, situated on the Peak Forest Canal in Marple, near Stockport · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Mellor Hall

   Mellor Hall is a country house on Church Road in Mellor, a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, 0.4 miles north of the Devonshire Arms off Longhurst Lane. The completion date of the present hall is thought to be 1688.

   3.2 km · Grade II* listed house in Mellor, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Mellor hill fort

   Mellor hill fort is a prehistoric site in North West England dating from the British Iron Age – about 800 BC to 100 AD. Situated on a hill in Mellor, Greater Manchester, on the western edge of the Peak District, the hill fort overlooks the Cheshire Plain. Although the settlement was founded during the Iron Age, evidence exists of activity on the site as far back as 8,000 BC; during the Bronze Age the hill may have been an area where funerary practices were performed.

   2.8 km · prehistoric site in North West England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   St. Thomas' Church, Mellor

   St. Thomas' Church is at the top of a lane overlooking the village of Mellor, Greater Manchester, England, with views over Manchester, Cheshire and beyond.

   2.7 km · church in Mellor, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Norfolk Arms And National Westminster Bank, Marple Bridge Branch

    The Norfolk Arms is a Grade II listed public house on Town Street in Marple Bridge, a district of Marple within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Dating from the early 19th century, it appears on late 19th and early 20th‑century Ordnance Survey maps as an unnamed pub.

    3.3 km · building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Strines

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 16 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 60 km

Stations

Middlewood railway station, 3.3 km · New Mills Central railway station, 2.4 km · New Mills Newtown railway station, 2.5 km · Marple railway station, 3.3 km · Disley railway station, 1.7 km

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  63 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
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  57 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £7–10
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  75 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £8–11
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