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Talke

Talke is a village in the civil parish of Kidsgrove, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in Staffordshire, England.

Talke
Talke · Hansgeog Schöner
The place

Talke is a village in the civil parish of Kidsgrove, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in Staffordshire, England. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Kidsgrove.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Talke

8 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
    St 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.

    3.6 km · Grade II listed church in Alsager, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.4 km · Grade II* listed church in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    1.9 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.3 km · grade II listed English country house in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Christ Church, Tunstall

    Christ Church is an Anglican church in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is the parish church of Goldenhill and Tunstall; the combined parish, which is an Anglo-Catholic parish, was created in 2010.

    3.8 km · church in Stoke-on-Trent, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bathpool Park

    Bathpool Park is a public park in a rural area between Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. The park became notorious in 1975 as the location for the murder of Lesley Whittle.

    1.4 km · park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.7 km · canal in east Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hardings Wood Junction

    Hardings Wood Junction is a canal junction near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England and the point at which the Macclesfield Canal joins the Trent and Mersey Canal. It opened in 1831.

    1.6 km · canal junction in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Talke

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 30 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 48 km · East Midlands (EMA), 68 km
Stations
Kidsgrove railway station, 1.6 km · Alsager railway station, 2.9 km
  • Liverpool → Talke
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Talke
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Talke
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Talke

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 Talke. 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

    268 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    274 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    335 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    371 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    395 km

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

Around it

Next door to Talke

Talke is 45 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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