Styal
Styal is a village and civil parish near the town of Wilmslow in Cheshire, England.

Styal is a village and civil parish near the town of Wilmslow in Cheshire, England. The River Bollin runs through the parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Styal
6 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.
- 01St Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow
St Bartholomew's Church is in the town of Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
2.4 km · church in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Ullerwood Castle
Ullerwood Castle is an early medieval castle, possibly a shell keep, in Ringway, a civil parish on the southern border of Manchester, England. Twelfth-century historian Roger of Hodwen included Hamon de Masci in list of rebels against Henry II in 1173 and wrote that he held the castles of Ullerwood Dunham.
3.5 km · castle in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 03William Temple Memorial Church
William Temple Memorial Church is a parish church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, dedicated to the bishop William Temple. It is a Grade II listed building, designed by George Pace in the Modernist style, and built in 1964–1965.
3.4 km · church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK · Wikipedia - 04Norcliffe Chapel
Norcliffe Chapel is in the village of Styal, Cheshire, England. It is a Unitarian chapel, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
100 m · chapel in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Fulshaw Hall
Fulshaw Hall is a country house, south of the civil parish of Wilmslow, in Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.6 km · country house in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Pownall Hall
Pownall Hall is a former country house in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. It was remodelled in 1830 as "a red sandstone Georgian house dressed up in the Tudor style".
1.6 km · country house in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Styal
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 2 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 40 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 69 km
- Stations
- Manchester Airport, 1.9 km · Manchester Airport railway station, 2.5 km · Wilmslow railway station, 2.8 km · Handforth railway station, 2.4 km · Heald Green railway station, 2.5 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Styal68 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Styal86 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Styal99 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £12–16
- 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 Styal
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 Styal. 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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If you know how people move in Styal – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Styal
Styal is 15 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wilmslowtown and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.7 km
- Ringwaycivil parish in Greater Manchester, England1.9 km
- Handforthvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Woodhouse Parkarea of Manchester3.5 km
- Heald Greensuburb in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK3.8 km