Places to explore near Crewe StationCrewe

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

6.1 km SE · Cheshire

Medieval salt town on the Weaver, dense with black-and-white timbered buildings and crowned by St Mary's, the cathedral of south Cheshire.

6.5 km SW · Cheshire

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

7.7 km NE

Family dairy farm near Nantwich famous for its ice cream and the giant straw sculpture raised in its field each summer.

8.8 km W

Cold War regional-government bunker near Nantwich, a 35,000-square-foot underground complex kept secret until 1993, now a museum.

9.5 km SW

An 1888 railway-gift park with a boating lake and clock tower.

2.5 km W

Home to the leaning 'Tower of Cheshire', all that stands of a church repeatedly sunk by the marl at Wybunbury.

5 km S

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

5.3 km NE · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Telford's dead-straight last great canal, running embankment-and-cutting from the Black Country to the Mersey at Ellesmere Port.

6.1 km NW · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

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

6.1 km SE

19th-century village inn at Warmingham with low beams, flagged floors and rooms for the night.

6.3 km N