Upper Hulme
Upper Hulme is a hamlet in North Staffordshire, between the historic market town of Leek and the spa town of Buxton.
Upper Hulme is a hamlet in North Staffordshire, between the historic market town of Leek and the spa town of Buxton. It is clustered around a redundant mill and is located within the upper reaches of the River Churnet. The Mill was recently restored, with a working water wheel, but no further information on its future is known. It can be accessed by one of the many footpaths through the hamlet. The Peak District Boundary Walk runs through the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Upper Hulme
One place 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.
- 01Tittesworth Reservoir
Tittesworth Reservoir is a water storage reservoir near Leek, Staffordshire, England, fed by the River Churnet. The reservoir and associated water treatment works are owned and operated by Severn Trent Water.
2.5 km · reservoir in Staffordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Upper Hulme
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 30 km · East Midlands (EMA), 56 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 61 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Upper Hulme59 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £7–9
- Liverpool → Upper Hulme73 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £9–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Upper Hulme74 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–11
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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 Upper Hulme
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 Upper Hulme. 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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Upper Hulme is 41 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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