Village in Cheshire, England

Lower Withington

Lower Withington is a civil parish and village in Cheshire, England.

Plan a trip to Lower Withington→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

Every way there

Nottingham, Leicestershire → Lower Withington
81 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–15
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Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lower Withington
80 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–13
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Lower Withington
87 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–13
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The field note

What is in and around Lower Withington, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Lower Withington has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 14 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Macclesfield, 11 km.

53.224°, -2.279°

At the 2001 census, it had a population of 492. Jodrell Bank Observatory lies mostly within the parish.

How locals move

Getting around Lower Withington 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, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Mike Peel; Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of… (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.