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

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.
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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.
- 01St 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 - 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.
2.4 km · Grade II* listed church in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Kidsgrove 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 - 04Lawton 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 - 05Christ 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 - 06Bathpool 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 - 07Hall 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 - 08Hardings 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
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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 → Talke60 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Talke76 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Talke71 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
- 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 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.
- 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 Talke
Talke is 45 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Kidsgrovetown and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, UK1.5 km
- Church Lawtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.4 km
- Audleyvillage in Staffordshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Scholar Greenvillage in Cheshire East, Cheshire, UK3.7 km
- Bignall Endvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.7 km