Places to explore near Alsager StationAlsager

Tiny estate village of thatch and timber, its church and the black-and-white White Lion inn scene of a Civil War massacre.

4.3 km SW · Cheshire

Brindley's mile-and-a-half canal tunnel under Harecastle Hill, its water stained orange with ironstone; boats pass through Telford's later parallel bore.

4.7 km SE

Gloriously wonky moated Tudor timber-framed house.

4.9 km NE

Sham ruined tower folly perched on a gritstone summit on the Cheshire border, a National Trust landmark with vast Cheshire Plain views.

6.1 km E

Pair of intricately carved Saxon stone crosses from the 9th century standing in Sandbach's cobbled market square.

7.1 km NW

Quiet village gathered round a triangular green and the great church of St Mary, near Congleton.

7.8 km NE · Cheshire

The only working Victorian pottery left in Stoke, a canal-side Grade II* factory still making Burleigh ware, with tours and a café.

8.3 km SE

Brindley's Grand Trunk of 1777 — Potteries bottle kilns, the Anderton Boat Lift and the long darkness of Harecastle Tunnel.

1.6 km NE · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Along the Peak District's western gritstone edges from Disley to Kidsgrove, with the Cheshire Plain spread below.

2.9 km E · Cheshire & Staffordshire

A high-level canal along the Peak District's western edge, carried on Telford-school embankments past silk-town wharves.

2.9 km E · Cheshire, Greater Manchester & Staffordshire

Small church at Barthomley, scene of a notorious Civil War massacre in 1643.

4.3 km SW

A country park in Staffordshire.

5.4 km S

Mow Cop to Kinver Edge behind the Staffordshire Knot waymark — gritstone, Cannock Chase heath and red sandstone to finish.

6.2 km NE · Staffordshire, Derbyshire & Cheshire