Photo of Little Moreton Hall, a house & garden near Astbury, Cheshire, north west England.

Little Moreton Hall© Jeff Buck / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Sandbach StationSandbach

28 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 1 is a national icon.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

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Sandbach Crosses

Landmark near Sandbach

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

2.2 km E

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Barthomley

Village

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

9.6 km S · Cheshire

Iconic

Little Moreton Hall

House & garden near Astbury

Gloriously wonky moated Tudor timber-framed house.

9.8 km E

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Sandbach

Village

Cobbled market town whose square holds a famous pair of carved Saxon stone crosses from the 9th century.

0 km NW · Cheshire

Trent & Mersey Canal

Canal

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

0.5 km W · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

The Bear's Paw

Pub near Warmingham

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

3 km W

Wheelock Hall Farm Shop

Farm & farm shop near Sandbach

Farm shop near Sandbach with year-round events, a pumpkin patch and a big play area.

3.1 km S

Shropshire Union Canal

Canal

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

5.3 km NW · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

Brereton Heath Country Park

Country park near Astbury

A country park in Cheshire.

6.6 km NE

Queen's Park, Crewe

House & garden near Nantwich

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

7.8 km SW

Lowe's Farm Shop

Farm & farm shop near Byley

Sixty-year-old grower's farm shop at Byley selling homegrown vegetables and Cheshire produce.

7.8 km N

River Weaver

River navigation

Cheshire's salt river, canalised for the chemical trade and joined to the canal network by the Anderton Boat Lift.

7.9 km NW · Cheshire

Everything else within 10 km (16) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Church MinshullVillage8.1 km W
The Lovell Quinta ArboretumGarden8.2 km NE
Rode Hall GardensGarden9.2 km SE
St Bertoline's ChurchChurch9.6 km S
Sandbach FlashesSSSIaccess unclear0.7 km SW
Welles & CrossPub2 km E
The Fox & HoundsPub5.4 km N
BagmereSSSIaccess unclear6.2 km NE
King Street Roman fortRoman archaeological siteaccess unclear6.5 km NW
Brookhouse MossSSSIaccess unclear6.6 km E
Wimboldsley WoodSSSIaccess unclear6.6 km NW
Oakhanger MossSSSIaccess unclear6.9 km SE
River DaneSSSIaccess unclear7.3 km NE
Wettenhall and Darnhall WoodsSSSIaccess unclear8.4 km W
Holly BanksSSSIaccess unclear8.9 km NE
The White Lion (Barthomley)Pub9.6 km S

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.