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Congleton
Town in Cheshire, England

Congleton

Congleton is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England.

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The town is on the River Dane, 21 miles (34 km) south of Manchester and 13 miles (21 km) north of Stoke on Trent. At the 2021 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 30,005, while the parish had a population of 28,497.

Get in

Getting to Congleton

Congleton is 7 mi (11 km) east of the M6 motorway, connected by the A534. It is on the A34 trunk road between Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester, and the A54 to Buxton and the Peak District. The A536 links the town with Macclesfield, with the A527 linking the town to Biddulph and providing an alternative route to Stoke-on-Trent.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Congleton Museum

    Market Square, CW12 1ET (behind Congleton Town Hall, opposite the police station), info@congletonmuseum.co.uk.

  2. 02
    Little Moreton Hall
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Castaway Play

    71 Moss Road, CW12 3BP, help@castawayplay.co.uk.

  2. 02
    Clonter Opera Theatre
  3. 03
    Daneside Theatre

    It is an independently run 300-seat theatre.

  4. 04
    Victoria Mill Antiques and Collectors Centre

    Foundry Bank, CW12 1EE (Victoria Mill Antiques and Collectors Centre is a 5-minute walk from the town centre, next to Congleton Leisure Centre), gail@cheshiredemolition.co.uk.

  5. 05
    Astbury Mere Country Park
  6. 06
    Biddulph Valley Way

    CW12 1RG (The Biddulph Valley Way can be accessed by a small lay-by car park on A54 Brook Street.), rangers@cheshireeast.gov.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

Congleton has a great selection of independent eateries. The Capital Walk is in the centre of the town and houses several restaurants serving a diverse array of cuisines.

How locals move

Getting around Congleton the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Mike Peel (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.