Why visit Alsager
Townapedia lists 3 museums and landmarks, 14 parks and trails, 38 places to eat and 1 place to stay in and around town.
Highlights include Little Moreton Hall, Rode Hall, Bathpool Park and Parrot's Drumble.
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About Alsager
Alsager is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located to the north-west of Stoke-on-Trent and east of Crewe. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 13,389 and the built up area population was 15,505.
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Museums and landmarks3
Little Moreton Hall
Museum · 3.1 mi
Moated half-timbered manor house near Congleton in England, built between about 1504 and 1610.
Rode Hall
Museum · 1.8 mi
English country house in Cheshire, England, UK
Parks, trails and playgrounds14
Bathpool Park
Park · 3.0 mi
Park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Restaurants and cafes38
The Horseshoe Inn
Bar and pub · 0.8 mi
Sandbach Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Mo-Sa 12:00-13:00, Su 12:00-22:30
26 more on the map.
Where to stay1
History
In the village of Church Lawton are the Church Lawton Barrows, which form part of a significant Bronze Age site near the town.
The town's name means 'the arable land of a person named Ælle (Old English: Ælles æċer).
Alsager was recorded as 'Eleacier' in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was a small farming village until the 19th century when, due to its rail connections and rural character, it became a home of choice for pottery works managers from the nearby Federation of Six Towns which later became the city of Stoke-on-Trent.
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During the Second World War, a large armaments factory was built outside Alsager at Radway Green, and the town expanded dramatically to house the influx of factory workers. Also during the war a camp was constructed for the training of Royal Marines. This bore the name of HMS Excalibur and was situated at the top of Fields Road by the side of the Stoke to Crewe railway line. In 1948 it became a displaced persons camp for refugees from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the former Polish Ukraine, countries which had been forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union. Many men from these countries had fought on the side of the Germans to try to regain independence, and they were afraid to return to their countries of origin, as many who had returned were executed by the Russians. A school was set up for the education of their children whose only common language when they arrived was German. The school continued to exist for many years in the same set of wooden huts under the name "Excalibur School". The first Roman Catholic church in Alsager was one of the wooden huts and was attended mainly by the Lithuanians, most of whom were Roman Catholic. The Anglican churches are Christ Church (1789), and St Mary Magdalene (1898).
Alsager previously had three Methodist churches at Hassall Road (Wesleyan), Wesley Place (Wesleyan) and Crewe Road (Primitive Methodist). By December 2009 two Methodist churches remained, but today there is just one.
The Roman Catholic community is served from St Gabriel's Church. The parish is located in the Diocese of Shrewsbury (Central Cheshire Region – Local Pastoral Area 9).
From the History section of Alsager on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Economy
Alsager town centre is characterised by independent and charity shops. The only national chain supermarkets in the town are a medium-sized Asda supermarket, a medium-sized Sainsbury's with a petrol station and a Sainsbury's Local.
There is a BAE Systems Global Combat Systems factory in the nearby village of Radway Green, producing small arms ammunition for the British armed forces.
Between 2012 and 2021 Alsager town centre has been redeveloped somewhat:The Co-operative Food store was rebuilt and enlarged in 2012, but it was sold off and converted to an Asda supermarket in 2015. A Town Square has been created, Fairview park has been rebuilt and capacity at Fairview Car park has been increased. In April 2014 Cheshire East Council gave planning permission for the development of a new Sainsbury's store on the former Twyfords site off Lawton Road. The new store, with petrol station, was opened in January 2025.
There were proposals to build 1267 new build houses, a new supermarket and petrol station in Alsager.
Arts and culture
The town is home to Alsager Community Theatre (ACT), an amateur drama group founded in 1973. ACT puts on its productions at Alsager Civic Centre and at nearby Little Moreton Hall.
Alsager Arts Centre, formerly housed on Manchester Metropolitan University's Alsager campus, had a public programme of touring new performances and visual art work presented in two seasons (September–November and January–March). The centre moved to the university's Crewe campus when the Alsager campus closed under the title of the Axis Arts Centre but it was closed in spring 2019 because of the planned withdrawal of the university from Crewe. The Arts Centre hosted performance companies such as Forced Entertainment and artists such as Bobby Baker.
Alsager hosts the annual Alsager Music Festival which takes place in Milton Gardens. In August 2010, Alsager hosted the first annual Alsager Arts Festival.
Education
Public education, at primary and secondary school level, is managed by Cheshire East Council and the Alsager Community Trust. The Alsager Community Trust is a co-operative trust, in which all the schools in the town are members. Secondary education is provided by Alsager School, an Academy school, that is situated opposite the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus. It is attended by over 1,300 pupils between the ages of 11 and 18. Alsager School is a Business and Enterprise College.
Six primary schools feed into Alsager School: Alsager Highfields, Cranberry Academy, Excalibur Primary School, Pikemere School, Rode Heath School and St Gabriel's R.C. Primary School.
During the Second World War a hostel built of wooden army huts was constructed on the site of the MMU to house workers at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green, and was called "Heathside". In 1945 it became "Alsager Training College" for the training of teachers which were in short supply at that time. The wooden huts were still in use for housing of students until the early 1960s.
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Notable people from Alsager
Lee BellBritish footballer (born 1983)Photo: Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Shaun MillerEnglish association football player (born 1987)Photo: Franziska, CC BY 2.0
William ForresterEnglish footballerPhoto: Timmy96, CC0- Rowan CheshireBritish freestyle skier
- Arthur LockettEnglish footballer (1877-1957)
- Lloyd SaxtonEnglish footballer (born 1990)
- Stuart CowdenEnglish footballer (1925-2016)
- Bill Branchgolfer (1911-1985)
Born in Alsager, according to Wikidata (CC0). Each name links to its Wikipedia article.
Churches and places of worship16
Church of the Good Shepherd
Church · Anglican · 1.3 mi
119 Sandbach Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Shopping7
Gas and EV charging1
Schools, colleges and libraries9
Healthcare3
Map of Alsager
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Getting there and nearby towns
Manchester Airport (MAN) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 17 miles away.
- Kidsgrove 3 mi east, about 5 min by car
- Sandbach 4 mi northwest, about 7 min by car
- Biddulph 6 mi east, about 9 min by car
- Congleton 6 mi northeast, about 10 min by car
- Newcastle under Lyme 7 mi southeast, about 12 min by car
- Stoke-on-Trent 8 mi southeast, about 13 min by car
- Middlewich 9 mi northwest, about 14 min by car
- Nantwich 9 mi west, about 15 min by car
- Longton 11 mi southeast, about 17 min by car
- Winsford 11 mi northwest, about 18 min by car
Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.
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Photo credits
- LittleMoretonHall, Christine-Ann Martin, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rode Hall (Ian Greig), Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rugby pitch at Bathpool - panoramio, Andrew Woodvine (awo…, CC BY 3.0
- Christ Church Alsager, Sep 2023, Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Church Lawton 3, Peter I. Vardy, Public domain
- Church of St Bertoline, Barthomley, Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Lawton Heath End - Horseshoe Inn pub - Mar 2025, Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Alsager - Sainsbury's supermarket - Mar 2025, Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mere Inn, Alsager, Sep 2023, Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
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