Mow Cop Castle
Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop in the civil parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. It is designated as a Grade II listed building on the National Heritage List for England.Photo: Nmwatson, Public domain.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: folly on the Cheshire and Staffordshire border, England, UK
- Also known as: “Mow Cop Folly”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Little Moreton Hall and Kidsgrove railway station.
Little Moreton Hall
Photo: Velvet-Glove, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a moated half-timbered manor house 4.5 miles south-west of Congleton in Cheshire, 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. Little Moreton Hall is situated 2 miles northwest of Mow Cop Castle.
Kidsgrove railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kidsgrove railway station serves the town of Kidsgrove, in Staffordshire, England; it lies 7.5 miles north of Stoke-on-Trent. The station is served by trains on the Crewe–Derby line, which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire Line. Kidsgrove railway station is situated 2 miles southwest of Mow Cop Castle.
Church of St John the Evangelist
Church
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Evangelist is situated 1½ miles east of Mow Cop Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitehill and Biddulph.
Whitehill
Locality
Whitehill, also sometimes spelt as White Hill is a historic village and now a suburb of Kidsgrove in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Whitehill is situated 1½ miles south of Mow Cop Castle.
Biddulph
Town
Photo: Jonathan Kington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biddulph is a town and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of the county of Staffordshire, England. The town lies 9 miles north of Stoke-on-Trent and 5 miles south-east of Congleton, close to part of the Staffordshire/Cheshire county border. Biddulph is situated 1½ miles east of Mow Cop Castle.
Kidsgrove
Town
Photo: www fotodiscs4u co uk, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Cheshire. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Kidsgrove is situated 2 miles southwest of Mow Cop Castle.
Mow Cop Castle
- Categories: folly, castle, building, tourism, ruins, and historic site
- Location: Kidsgrove, Newcastle-under-Lyme District, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.1131° or 53° 6′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.21445° or 2° 12′ 52″ westOpen location code
9C5V4Q7P+66OpenStreetMap ID
way 148686045OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q15260106
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Mow Cop Castle” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Castell de Mow Cop”
- Czech: “hrad Mow Cop”
- Czech: “Mow Cop”
- Finnish: “Mow Copin linna”
- Italian: “Castello di Mow Cop”
- Russian: “Замок Моу Коп”
- Russian: “Моу Коп (замок)”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Mow Cop”
- Turkish: “Mow Cop Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Мов-Коп”
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Highlights include Mow Cop Community Church and Mow Cop - Trig Point.
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