Greenway Bank Country Park

Fantastical Victorian world garden, Egypt and China.

3.6 km N

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

4 km NW

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.

5.6 km SW

Two-mile reservoir in wooded hills near Leek, ringed by a shore path and served by a miniature steam railway, its name borrowed by Kipling's parents.

6.8 km NE

Gloriously wonky moated Tudor timber-framed house.

7 km NW

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

7 km SW