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Holmes Chapel
Village in Cheshire, England

Holmes Chapel

Holmes Chapel is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) north of Crewe and 21 miles (34 km) south of Manchester; Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve lies 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the village and Goostrey lies to the north.

Plan a trip to Holmes Chapel→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

The population of the village was 6,700 at the 2021 census.

Get in

Getting to Holmes Chapel

The town is 20 miles from Manchester Airport, off junction 18 of M6.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    St Luke's Church

    The present church originated about 1430 as a timber-framed building with a Perpendicular sandstone west tower.

  2. 02
    Twemlow Viaduct

    1841 viaduct was designed for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company by George W.

  3. 03
    Jodrell Bank

    Home of the Lovell Radio Telescope, listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO.

Do

Things to do

Dane Meadow (footpath running from Moreton Drive to the A50 by the bridge at Cranage), danemeadow@gmail.com. Dane Meadow is a 7-hectare area of land to the north of Holmes Chapel within the Dane Valley. It is a natural environment for walking dogs and casual walkers. The roadway provides access for disabled vehicles and a limited parking area near the river.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Vicarage

    Knutsford Road,.

How locals move

Getting around Holmes Chapel 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.

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