Places to explore near Knutsford StationKnutsford

Elegant market town of independent shops and monthly artisan markets, the 'Cranford' of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel.

0.1 km NE · Cheshire

Neoclassical mansion, gardens and vast deer park.

3.3 km N

Cobbled lane leading to the timber-framed church of St Oswald and the old Bells of Peover inn beside it.

4.3 km S · Cheshire

A double herbaceous border of the 1840s, reckoned the oldest of its kind in England.

8.2 km W

World Heritage radio-astronomy site near Goostrey, dominated by the giant Lovell Telescope, with a science-centre and arboretum.

8.5 km SE

Restored open-pan salt works at Marston near Northwich, one of the last of its kind and now a museum of Cheshire's salt trade.

8.7 km W

A mill estate whose valley garden drops to the River Bollin past restored glasshouses.

8.8 km NE

The parkland of a vanished hall on Budworth Mere, with lime avenues and birdwatching hides.

8.9 km W

Estate village of red-brick and timbered cottages climbing to St Mary's church, long held up as Cheshire's prettiest.

8.9 km W · Cheshire

An early-Georgian mansion with one of Britain's largest winter gardens and a deer park.

9 km N

Overshot 16th-century watermill under a long stone roof near Alderley Edge, restored to working order by the National Trust.

9.2 km E

Wooded sandstone escarpment steeped in legend.

9.2 km E

Plain 1689 Nonconformist chapel in Knutsford where the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell worshipped and is buried.

0.1 km E

A National Trust place in Cheshire.

4 km NE

Creeper-clad 14th-century coaching inn beside the timber-framed church at Lower Peover, reputedly a Patton and Eisenhower haunt in 1944.

4.3 km S

Rare timber-framed medieval church at Lower Peover, its aisles built of black-and-white oak with a 1582 west tower.

4.3 km S

Church on a hill above Rostherne Mere, its wooded setting mentioned in a deed of 1188.

5.4 km N

Hushed estate hamlet above Rostherne Mere, a nature reserve, with St Mary's on the hill.

6 km N · Cheshire

Traditional country pub down the lanes at Mobberley, with fireside snugs and a big beer garden.

6.5 km E

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

7.7 km SW · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire