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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.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  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.

    2.8 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.

    2.8 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.

    2.7 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.

    2.4 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.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    1.7 km · Grade II* listed house in the civil parish of Goostrey, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.3 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    2.5 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St 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 → Twemlow
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £11–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Twemlow
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Twemlow
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    277 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    290 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    319 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    355 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    380 km

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

Around it

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