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Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

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List of places in Cheshire This is a list of places within the ceremonial county boundaries of Cheshire, in North West England. A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W See also * List of Cheshire settlements by popula ...

for a list of settlements in the county.

Places of interest

Country parks, gardens and accessible open spaces

* Bickerton Hill * Daresbury Firs * Delamere Forest *The Edge, Alderley Edge *

Hare Hill Hare Hill Hall is a country house and a garden in the parish of Over Alderley, Cheshire, England. The house and grounds are privately owned, and the separate nearby garden is in the care of the National Trust. House The house was built in about ...

* Helsby Hill, Helsby * Lamaload Reservoir * Macclesfield Forest * Mersey Forest * Murdishaw Valley, Runcorn * Ness Botanic Gardens * Northwich Community Woodlands *

Pick Mere Pickmere is a village and civil parish near Knutsford in the Borough of Cheshire East. It has a population of 541.Pickmere * Peckforton Hills * Pickerings Pasture, Widnes *

Runcorn Hill Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton in Cheshire, England. Its population in 2011 was 61,789. The town is in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region, with Liverpool to the northwest across the River Mers ...

Shakerley Mere Shakerley Mere is a lake and recreation area near Allostock, Cheshire, England. The mere is a former sand quarry, which flooded after extraction ended in the 1960s. Roughly triangular in shape, it bounded to the east by the M6 motorway and on the ...

* Shining Tor * Shutlingsloe *

Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve Swettenham Meadows is a nature reserve in Cheshire, England, on the north bank of Swettenham Brook, a short distance north east of Swettenham village and 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Holmes Chapel village (). The Swettenham Meadows reserve ...

* Tatton Park *

Tegg's Nose Country Park Tegg's Nose is a hill east of Macclesfield in Cheshire, England. It has a short ridge with a high point of 380 metres (1246 feet) at , terminating in a promontory at the southern end. It lies on the western edge of the Peak District, altho ...

* Wigg Island, Runcorn *

Windgather Rocks The Windgather Rocks ( a.s.l.) is a gritstone crag on the Derbyshire–Cheshire border in England. It is in the Peak District National Park and is a popular site for learning the rudiments of rock climbing. As the name suggests the area is expo ...

* Winsford Flashes

Castles and houses

Adlington Hall Adlington Hall is a country house near Adlington, Cheshire. The oldest part of the existing building, the Great Hall, was constructed between 1480 and 1505; the east wing was added in 1581. The Legh family has lived in the hall and in previo ...

* Arley Hall * Beeston Castle CL icon

* Bolesworth Castle * Capesthorne Hall *

Cholmondeley Castle Cholmondeley Castle ( ) is a country house in the civil parish of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England. Together with its adjacent formal gardens, it is surrounded by parkland. The site of the house has been a seat of the Cholmondeley family since ...

* Doddington Park * Dorfold Hall * Eaton Hall * Elton Hall, Aldford *

Gawsworth Hall Gawsworth Old Hall is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England. It is a timber-framed house in the Cheshire black-and-white style. The present house was built between 1480 and 1600, replacing an ear ...

* Halton Castle CL icon

* Holt Castle CL icon

* Little Moreton Hall * Lyme Park * Moss Hall, Audlem * Norton Priory * Peckforton Castle *

Peover Hall Peover Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Peover Superior, commonly known as Over Peover, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. History The house ...

* Tabley House * Vale Royal Abbey

Footpaths

* Biddulph Valley Way * Gritstone Trail *

Sandstone Trail The Sandstone Trail is a long-distance walkers' path, following sandstone ridges running north–south from Frodsham in central Cheshire to Whitchurch just over the Shropshire border. The path was created in 1974 and extended in the 1990s ...

South Cheshire Way The South Cheshire Way is a long-distance footpath running east–west mainly through Cheshire, England, though parts lie in Shropshire and Staffordshire. The western section from Grindley Brook, near Whitchurch, runs through farmland; the e ...

Wirral Way The Wirral Country Park is a country park on the Wirral Peninsula, England, lying both in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the county of Merseyside and in the borough of Cheshire West & Chester in the county of Cheshire. It was the first ...

(partly in Cheshire)

Museums

* Cuckooland Museum, Tabley ( Knutsford) * National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port *

Catalyst Science Discovery Centre The Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museum is a science and technology museum in Widnes, Halton, North-West England. The centre has interactive exhibits, reconstructed historical scenes, an observatory, a live-science theatre and family w ...

, Widnes * Grosvenor Museum,

Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...

Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker The Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is a former government-owned nuclear bunker located at Hack Green, Cheshire, England. History The first military use of the area was in World War II, when a Starfish site was established at Hack Gre ...

* Lion Salt Works, Marston *

Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse The Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse, Northwich, Cheshire, records the social, cultural and industrial history of west Cheshire. It was formerly known as the Salt Museum, reflecting its early focus on the history of salt extraction, a local ind ...

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Other places of interest

* The Bridestones * Chester Cathedral * Chester city walls * Chester Grosvenor and Spa * Chester Zoo Zoo icon

* Jodrell Bank Observatory * Parkgate * Sandbach Crosses

Watermills

Bunbury Mill Bunbury Mill is a watermill located to the east of the village of Bunbury, Cheshire, England. After being at risk of demolition, it has been restored as a working museum. The structure is designated by Historic England as a Grade II list ...

Nether Alderley Mill Nether Alderley Mill is a 16th-century watermill located in Congleton Road (the A34), to the south of the village of Nether Alderley, Cheshire, England. It is owned by the National Trust, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for Engl ...

* Quarry Bank Mill * Stretton Watermill

Waterways

* Anderton Boat Lift * Ashton Canal * Bridgewater Canal *

Macclesfield Canal The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England. There were various proposals for a canal to connect the town of Macclesfield to the national network from 1765 onwards, but it was not until 1824 that a scheme came to fruition. There ...

* River Bollin *

River Dane The River Dane is a tributary of the River Weaver that originates in the Peak District area of England. The name of the river (earlier ''Daven'') is probably from the Old Welsh ''dafn'', meaning a "drop or trickle", implying a slow-moving river. ...

* River Dee * River Gowy * River Goyt * River Mersey * Peak Forest Canal *

Rochdale Canal The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. Its name refers to the town of Rochdale through which it passes. The Rochdale is a broad canal beca ...

Shropshire Union Canal The Shropshire Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the Shropshire Union (SU) system and lie partially in Wales. The canal lies in ...

Trent and Mersey Canal The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal" for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and north of Middle ...

* Wardle Canal * River Weaver