Congleton
Congleton is a historic market town in Cheshire East, North West England. As part of the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom competition, Congleton has been awarded gold medals in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2022.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 26,200 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Congleton, Cheshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Congleton railway station and Congleton Museum.
Congleton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Congleton railway station serves the market town of Congleton, in Cheshire, England. It lies on the Stafford-Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line.
Congleton Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Congleton Museum is a local museum in Congleton, Cheshire, northwest England, covering the history of the town of Congleton, which is situated on the banks of the River Dane.
Congleton Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Clive Woolliscroft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Congleton Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Congleton, Cheshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Congleton Town Council, is a grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hulme Walfield and Buglawton.
Hulme Walfield
Hamlet
Photo: David C Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hulme Walfield is a small village and civil parish, just north of Congleton, in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire.
Buglawton
Suburb
Photo: Jonathan Kington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buglawton is a suburb of Congleton, in the Cheshire East borough of Cheshire, lying to the north-east of the town centre. It was formerly a separate parish, but was absorbed into the borough of Congleton in 1936 and has been administered as part of the town since then.
West Heath
Suburb
West Heath is a suburb to the west of Congleton, in Cheshire, England. It is the site of Astbury Mere Country Park. The West Heath area has three schools, with one of Congleton's two secondary schools, Congleton High School being located there.
Congleton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.1635° or 53° 9′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.2108° or 2° 12′ 39″ westPopulation
26,200Elevation
295 feet (90 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CONOpen location code
9C5V5Q7Q+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 53986828OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Congleton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كونجليتون”
- Asturian: “Congleton”
- Basque: “Congleton”
- Belarusian: “Конглтан”
- Bengali: “কংগ্লেটন”
- Cebuano: “Congleton”
- Chinese: “Congleton”
- Chinese: “康格尔顿”
- Chinese: “康格爾頓”
- Dutch: “Congleton”
- Esperanto: “Kongletono”
- French: “Congleton”
- German: “Congleton”
- Gujarati: “કૉંગ્લેટન”
- Irish: “Congleton”
- Italian: “Congleton”
- Japanese: “コングルトン”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಂಗ್ಲೆಟನ್”
- Korean: “콩글턴”
- Ladin: “Congleton”
- Lithuanian: “Kongletonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Congleton (Cheshire)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Congleton”
- Persian: “کونگلتون”
- Polish: “Congleton”
- Portuguese: “Congleton”
- Romanian: “Congleton”
- Russian: “Конглтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Congleton”
- Slovenian: “Congleton”
- South Azerbaijani: “کونقلتون”
- Spanish: “Congleton”
- Swedish: “Congleton”
- Tamil: “காங்லேடன்”
- Telugu: “కాంగ్లేటన్”
- Turkish: “Congleton”
- Ukrainian: “Конглтон”
- Urdu: “کونجلیٹن”
- Volapük: “Congleton”
- Welsh: “Congleton”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Congleton”. Photo: Jonathan Kington, CC BY-SA 2.0.