Mow Cop

Mow Cop is a village on the - border, England, 24 miles south of Manchester and 6 miles north of Stoke-on-Trent, on a steep hill of the same name rising to 335 metres above sea level.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Cheshire and Staffordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: Mow Cop, Cheshire”, “Mow Cop, Cheshire-Staffordshire”, “Mow Cop, Staffordshire”, “Mowcop”, “Mowcop, Cheshire”, and “Mowcop, Staffordshire

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mow Cop Castle and Little Moreton Hall.

Photo: Nmwatson, Public domain.
is a folly at Mow Cop in the civil parish of , , England. It is designated as a Grade II listed building on the National Heritage List for England.

, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a moated half-timbered manor house 4.5 miles south-west of in , England. The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08 and the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the family until about 1610. is situated 2 miles northwest of Mow Cop.

Railway station
serves the town of in , . The station is 7.5 miles north of . The station is served by trains on the Crewe–Derby line which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. is situated 2 miles southwest of Mow Cop.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitehill and Biddulph.

Locality
, also sometimes spelt as White Hill is a historic village and now a suburb of in the in , England.

Town
is a town and civil parish in the district of the county of , England. The town lies 9 miles north of and 5 miles south-east of , close to part of the Staffordshire/ county border. is situated 1½ miles east of Mow Cop.

Town
is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, , England, on the border. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with and . is situated 2 miles southwest of Mow Cop.

Mow Cop

Latitude
53.11241° or 53° 6′ 45″ north
Longitude
-2.21472° or 2° 12′ 53″ west
Elevation
938 feet (286 metres)
Open location code
9C5V4Q6P+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29957119
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2642080
Wiki­data ID
Q6927206
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Mow Cop” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: مو كآب
  • Dutch: Mow Cop
  • Egyptian Arabic: مو كآب
  • French: Mow Cop
  • Irish: Mow Cop
  • Italian: Mow Cop
  • Polish: Mow Cop
  • Welsh: Mow Cop

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mow Cop Community Church and Mow Cop Methodist Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mow Cop”. Photo: Stevekraken, CC BY-SA 4.0.