Twemlow
Twemlow is a civil parish, containing the village of Twemlow Green in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Twemlow is a civil parish, containing the village of Twemlow Green in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2011 Official UK Census, the population of the entire civil parish was 192. Twemlow lies on the A535 road and the West Coast Mainline, which crosses the River Dane via the Grade-II-listed Twemlow Viaduct.
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Worth seeing in and around Twemlow
9 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.
- 01Jodrell 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.
2.8 km · astronomical observatory in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Lovell 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.
2.8 km · radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire in the north-west of England · Wikipedia - 03Mark 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.
2.7 km · radio telescope of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, North West England · Wikipedia - 04St 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.
2.4 km · church in Holmes Chapel, UK · Wikipedia - 05Brereton 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.
3.9 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Blackden 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.
1.7 km · Grade II* listed house in the civil parish of Goostrey, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St 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.
1.3 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St 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.
2.5 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St Oswald's Church, Brereton
St Oswald's Church is north of the village of Brereton Green, adjacent to Brereton Hall, in the civil parish of Brereton, Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Croco. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is described as "an unusually complete late Perpendicular church".
3.9 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Twemlow
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 37 km · East Midlands (EMA), 79 km
- Stations
- Holmes Chapel railway station, 2.3 km · Goostrey railway station, 900 m
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Twemlow85 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £11–14
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Twemlow83 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Twemlow87 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
- 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 Twemlow
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 Twemlow. 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 Twemlow
Twemlow is 30 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Holmes Chapelvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK2 km
- Goostreyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK1.9 km
- Swettenhamvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.4 km
- Cranagevillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Lower Withingtoncivil parish and village in Cheshire, UK3.4 km