WIP, please forgive me for using the 'NOTAM-Code' abbreviation of your title.
You say "the town of Holmes Chapel is not marked on that chart".
Yes it is, and so it Middlewich.
Both are visible in the ochre/brown background ornament. A track from Winsford Flash via overhead Middlewich to Holmes Chapel would certainly put the aircraft inside Class D airspace, even routing to the M6-based VRP.
Now, earlier-on, 'Crazy' Voyager' alerts us to the possibility that CAS infringements around EGCC are at as record high. This is sad to hear, because:-
1. All the flying clubs that operate in this area are very professional, and,
2. The operational ATC staff at EGCC are, (and always have been), fairly 'G.A. friendly'.
In about 2010, NATS introduced a piece of technology known as CAIT..The Controlled airspace Infringement Tool. If you are squawking, and stray inside CAS, (certainly vertically, and may be laterally, - but I could be wrong here), your SSR code will change from blue to magenta on the ATCOs radar, (sorry, situation display), indicating an Infringement of CAS has taken place. Details of CAIT are available on the internet.
Don't panic though, this isn't, (as far as I'm aware), designed to instantly print-out the aeronautical equivalent of an 'NIP'. ATCOs are not, 'policemen', but it could lead to a follow-up 'telephone-call', and may be one of the reasons for the information referred to by 'Crazy Voyager'.
Please do not take these comments as a 'point-scoring' exercise against WIP or anyone else.
Incidentally, the NATS IAIP document AD 2-EGCC-4-1 dated 30 April 2014 still shows EGCD as an aerodrome with an ATZ, 2 runways and an operational NDB. I believe this to be incorrect as I have been involved with the planning of the housing development on the site and know personally the gentleman who turned the 'WFD' off for the final time.
But what of Steven, and his 'trip'? A great sense of satisfaction to take your father flying?…..You bet.
In the words of the 'Amazon' marketing department…."Please share your experience".
Safe flying, and "keep a sharp lookout".