Places to explore near Acton Bridge StationActon Bridge

The parkland of a vanished hall on Budworth Mere, with lime avenues and birdwatching hides.

4.8 km E

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

4.9 km E

Cheshire's largest wood, 2,400 acres of oak and pine around the reedy lake of Blakemere Moss, laced with walking and cycling trails.

6.6 km SW

Estate village of red-brick and timbered cottages climbing to St Mary's church, long held up as Cheshire's prettiest.

7.2 km NE · Cheshire

Restored open-pan salt works at Marston near Northwich, one of the last of its kind and now a museum of Cheshire's salt trade.

7.3 km E

Wooded sandstone hilltop above Frodsham looking out over the Mersey estuary, Liverpool and the Cheshire plain.

8.6 km W

A double herbaceous border of the 1840s, reckoned the oldest of its kind in England.

10 km NE

Cheshire's salt river, canalised for the chemical trade and joined to the canal network by the Anderton Boat Lift.

0.9 km NE · Cheshire

Brindley's Grand Trunk of 1777 — Potteries bottle kilns, the Anderton Boat Lift and the long darkness of Harecastle Tunnel.

1.4 km NE · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Monet-like water garden and nursery at Cuddington, with island beds, primulas and a wildlife pond.

4.1 km SW

A National Trust place in Cheshire.

5.9 km N

The Duke's canal of 1761 that began the Canal Age, crossing the Mersey flats between Manchester, Runcorn and Leigh.

6.1 km NW · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

Cheshire's best-known walk, running the wooded sandstone ridge from Frodsham to Whitchurch above the plain.

6.3 km SW · Cheshire & Shropshire