Castle Park has been awarded Green Flag status, a prestigious award which is the national benchmark for parks and open spaces. This indicates that the park has fulfilled the judging criteria and is a safe, welcoming and well maintained park offering ...
Stanney Fields Park is the borough's first Green Flag Park. This prestigious award is the national benchmark for parks and public spaces. The park has fulfilled the judging criteria and is a safe, welcoming and well maintained park. The park has ...
Blakemere is set in the heart of beautiful Cheshire countryside yet easily accessible on the junction of the A49 and A556 in Sandiway. Blakemere’s beautiful Edwardian Courtyard has wonderful small boutique shops offering a variety of gifts, craf...
The Salt Museum in Northwich, Cheshire, has just been awarded a quality mark for the Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Service. Participating attractions are assessed by an unannounced visit, which takes place at any time when the attraction is op...
In the National Waterways Museum ( Boat Museum )Ellesmere Port in Cheshire you can Transport yourself back to a fascinating part of history, brought to life at The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port (Junction 9,M53) Wander around the seven a...
The Cheshire Military Museum's exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of VE and VJ day, was a great success. After mentions in the local press, people from Chester and many overseas visitors came and took in the photographs, the Instrument of Surren...
The Silk Museum in Macclesfield, Cheshire, within the Heritage Centre follows the story of silk from its origins in China, along the silk route to Britain and its establishment in Macclesfield. An award winning audio-visual presentation tells of ...
West Park Museum in Macclesfield,
Cheshire, has Collections comprising of a wide range of fine and decorative art material and objects relating to local history. This includes the famous Giant Panda. The paintings date from the 19th and early 20th...
The Museum of Policing in Cheshire preserves and researches the heritage of policing in the county since the first force was founded in 1838. Murder weapons and inkpots, forgeries and pigeon carriers, photographs and records - you can see it here or ...
The Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum of Primitive Methodism in Crewe Cheshire occupies the former Sunday School room, built in 1914 to the memory of Hugh Bourne, who started many Sunday Schools and whose life-long concern was to bring children to God...
This unusual and fascinating museum used to be one of the best kept secrets among Cheshire's many attractions. Over the past few years it has undergone some major changes and is now recognised as one of the Country's leading specialist museums. Situa...
Norton Priory Museum and Gardens in Runcorn, Cheshire, is a fantastic day out, with an award winning museum, excavated medieval ruins, the spectacular St Christopher statue, the lovely Walled Garden and the extensive woodland and sculpture trail. We ...
Chester's Grosvenor Museum has the biggest collection of local and international history. Discover 2000 years of life spread over three floors of a classic 19th century building.
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Mouldsworth Motor Museum in Chester, Cheshire has some of the finest classic and vintage automobiles and memorabilia....
Cuckooland Museum in Knutsford, Cheshire would like to welcome you to be astonished at the variety, quality and ingenuity associated with the ancient craft of cuckoo clock making. The museum's collection is regarded as the most important of its type ...
The story of Nantwich's fascinating history is brought to life at Nantwich Museum. There, main galleries tell the story of the town in Roman salt making times, Tudor Nantwich's Great Fire (1583), the Civil War Battle of Nantwich (1644), the more rece...
The Cycle Museum in Runcorn, Cheshire has a collection that is one of the most detailed cycle and cycle motor display in the North West. We will also tell you of the history behind cycling....
Warrington Museum and Art Gallery in Cheshire is a Grade II listed building which it shares with the town's Central Library. The Museum and the Library originally opened in 1848 as the first rate-supported library in the UK, before moving to their cu...
The museum houses many artefacts from Congleton's past. Congleton Museum Trust was formed in 1985 by a group of local history enthusiasts to try and pull together as much as possible of the history of Congleton, and to explore ways of exhibiting it t...
Visit Blue Planet Aquarium - Britain's Best Aquarium! Come share an incredible voyage of discovery through the underwater world from fresh water lakes and streams to mangrove swamps, rocky shores, stunning coral reefs and mighty ocean depths. Blue Pl...
Dramatic red sandstone escarpment, with impressive views. Alderley Edge is designated an SSSI for its geological interest. It has a long history of copper mining, going back to prehistoric and Roman times. The mines are open twice a year, organised b...
Hare Hill in Macclesfield, Cheshire is a charming wooded and walled garden. This woodland garden, especially spectacular in early summer, includes azaleas, rhododendrons, hollies and hostas. At its heart is a delightful walled area with a pergola and...
Great estate with lavishly decorated house and fine gardens. Originally a Tudor house, Lyme was transformed by the Venetian architect Leoni into an Italianate palace. Some of the Elizabethan interiors survive and contrast dramatically with later room...
Nether Alderley Mill in Macclesfield,
Cheshire, is a 15th-century mill beside a tranquil mill pool. With its heavy oak framework, low beams and floors connected by wooden ladders, set beneath an enormous sloping stone roof, this charmingly rustic ...
Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate in Wilmslow, Cheshire is of one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, including complete working cotton mill. Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate once belonged to the wealthy Greg family who founded the Mill...
The Chester Castle: Agricola Tower and Castle Walls has its original gateway to Chester Castle, this 12th-century tower houses a chapel with exceptionally fine wall paintings of c. 1220, rediscovered in the 1980s. An access stair to the castle's wall...
Chester Roman Amphitheatre is the largest Roman amphitheatre in Britain, used for entertainment and military training by the 20th Legion, based at the fortress of 'Deva' (Chester). Excavations by English Heritage and Chester City Council in 2004-5 re...
Beeston Castle in Cheshire Stands majestically on a sheer rocky crag, Beeston has perhaps the most stunning views of any castle in England. Excavations indicate that a Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age hillfort occupied the site long before the cast...
The two massive Saxon stone crosses, elaborately carved with animals and Biblical scenes including the Nativity of Christ and the Crucifixion, dominate the cobbled market square of Sandbach. Probably dating from the 9th century, and originally painte...
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