Places to explore in CheshireEngland · North West England

World Heritage radio-astronomy site near Goostrey, dominated by the giant Lovell Telescope, with a science-centre and arboretum.

Palladian mansion and moorland deer park.

Neoclassical mansion, gardens and vast deer park.

Ruined castle on a dramatic sandstone crag.

Britain's first national park: gritstone edges in the Dark Peak, limestone dales in the White.

1,438 km²

Roman walled city on the Dee whose two-tier medieval Rows, black-and-white shopfronts and cathedral make it one of England's best-preserved historic centres.

Cheshire

Gloriously wonky moated Tudor timber-framed house.

Wooded sandstone escarpment steeped in legend.

0.94 km²

Ornate 1899 clock on Chester's Eastgate, said to be one of the most photographed clocks in England after Big Ben.

The 'Cathedral of the Canals', an 1875 iron boat lift raising narrowboats fifty feet between the Weaver and the Trent & Mersey Canal.

Staircase locks and a restored watermill on the Shropshire Union Canal at Bunbury, a peaceful picnic and boat-watching spot.

Whitewashed sugar-loaf folly on Kerridge Hill above Bollington, built to mark Waterloo, with wide views over plain, Pennines and Wales.