Official visitor guide produced in association with the
Visit Chester & Cheshire regional tourist board.
Friday, 30th July 2010
You're spoilt for choice for things to do in Cheshire. See below to find stately homes, luxury spa facilities, award-winning gardens, waymarked country trails and outdoor activities ranging from crag-climbing and wildlife walks, archery lessons and falconry sessions, to craft workshops and children’s holiday courses. Whether you want to pack your diary full or prefer to take life at a more leisurely pace, you'll find a selection of fantastic stuff to visit, see and learn.
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Altrincham
Here is one of the North West's great plantsman's gardens with richly planted borders and majestic trees, as well as an orangery, Victorian bark house and well house.
Garden
Stockport
Great National Trust estate with lavishly decorated house and fine gardens.
Historic House / Palace
Macclesfield
With over 2,500 species of trees and shrubs, this arboretum, next to the world famous Lovell Radio Telescope is a tree lovers’ paradise.
Parkland / Woodland Garden
Congleton
Step back in time, over 500 years.
Historic House / Palace
Dunham Massey
A family-run, small craft brewery, from a barn on the Dunham Massey estate, producing 12 beers, including brews with the novel names of Chocolate Cherry Mild and Deer Beer.
Brewery
Altrincham
Park with formal avenues and fallow deer.
Municipal Park
Knutsford
Perfect for all the family, the farm provides a picture of rural life where time has stood still since the 1930s.
Farm
Sandbach
Sandbach Farmers Market - 2nd Saturday Monthly (from 12th June) - 8:30am - 1:30pm
Delicious locally sourced produce, Victorian Children's games, live music.
Market
Northwich
Enjoy freshly-made ice cream with 18 different flavours.
Tea / Coffee Shop
Macclesfield
Come and take a trip to Mars....
Heritage / Visitor Centre
Altrincham
Nestled in the rural village of Dunham Massey, Red House Farm is an award winning farm shop and tea rooms - true supporters of local foods with most products sourced from within the North West of England.
Tea / Coffee Shop
Chester
Excellent reputation for providing its customers with quality horticultural and lifestyle products,
Garden Centre
Altrincham
An 18th century mansion with over 30 rooms open to the public. Collections of furniture, paintings and silver. Library, laundry, kitchen and stables.
National Trust property.
Historic House / Palace
Tattenhall
The largest ice cream parlour in the region offering 40 flavours of ice cream and sorbet.
Farm
Styal
One of our garden’s greatest secrets has been revealed!
Water Mill
Runcorn
Amid the engaging sights at this 800-year-old religious retreat - herbs, vegetables and fruits grown, including the national collection of quince trees.
Museum
Neston
Voted Large Attraction of the Year 2008 at the recent Visit Chester and Cheshire Tourism Awards.
These outstanding botanic gardens overlooking the Dee Estuary contain the finest collection of rhododendron and azaleas in the Northwest.
Garden
Knutsford
The Old Hall is set in an enclosure in the parkland between the beautiful mere and the site of an Anglo Saxon village with its landscape history trail.
Museum
Knutsford
With forty indoor servants to spit and polish, cook and clean, wash and iron, this elegant Regency mansion was a constant bustle of activity in the days of the Egerton family which owned the house from the turn of the 18th century. With its impressive south-facing portico dominating the view of the...
Historic House / Palace
Tattenhall, Chester
Visit our selection of animals which are bound to capture your hearts with their playful characters.
Farm
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