Swettenham

Worth seeing in and around Swettenham

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
   Jodrell Bank Observatory

   Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War.

   3.9 km · astronomical observatory in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Lovell Telescope

   The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England. Completed in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 metres in diameter; it is now the third-largest, after the US Green Bank telescope, and German Effelsberg telescope.

   3.9 km · radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire in the north-west of England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Mark II

   The Mark II is a radio telescope located at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England. It was built on the site of the 218 ft Transit Telescope.

   3.6 km · radio telescope of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, North West England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.8 km · church in Holmes Chapel, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Brereton Hall

   Brereton Hall is an Elizabethan prodigy house north of Brereton Green, next to St Oswald's Church in the civil parish of Brereton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

   3 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   All Saints Chapel, Somerford

   All Saints Chapel, Somerford is in an isolated position near the hamlet of Brereton Heath, between Congleton and Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

   2.7 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Blackden Hall

   Blackden Hall is a country house to the northeast of the village of Goostrey, Cheshire, England. It dates from the later part of the 16th century, and there have been later alterations.

   3.5 km · Grade II* listed house in the civil parish of Goostrey, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Luke's Church, Goostrey

   St Luke's Church is in the village of Goostrey, Cheshire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton, in a combined benefice with St Peter, Swettenham.

   3.5 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Somerford Booths Hall

   Somerford Booths Hall is a grade II* listed country house in the parish of Somerford Booths, Cheshire, England, 3 kilometres northwest of Congleton on the bank of the River Dane.

   3.4 km · historic site in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St Peter's Church, Swettenham

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

    0 m · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Swettenham

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 17 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 39 km · East Midlands (EMA), 77 km

Stations

Holmes Chapel railway station, 3.4 km · Goostrey railway station, 3 km

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