Places to explore near Chester

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

0.1 km E

Red-sandstone cathedral founded as a Benedictine abbey in 1092, with fine medieval choir stalls, a cloister and a tower you can climb.

0.1 km N

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.

0.1 km NE · Cheshire

Unique medieval two-tier shopping galleries lining Chester's four main streets, timbered walkways above the street-level shops.

0.1 km SW

The most complete circuit of Roman and medieval walls of any English city, a two-mile walkway around Chester's heart.

0.7 km S

Walk the outline of a whole nation — 870 miles of cliff, estuary and beach from Chepstow round to Queensferry.

2.1 km SW · spans 16 counties

Cheshire village pub between Chester and Wrexham, an olive best country pub.

6.8 km E

Sprawling family attraction at Tattenhall built around a dairy farm, with ice cream, play barns and a fudge kitchen.

11.3 km SE

160 acres of woodland and parkland at Connah's Quay with a brook, waterfall and the ruins of Ewloe Castle.

11.3 km W

Pretty Wirral village of thatched and sandstone cottages near the Dee, with an old church and hilltop views.

11.9 km NW · Cheshire

A country park in Cheshire.

12.5 km NW

University of Liverpool's 64-acre botanic gardens above the Dee, founded in 1898 by plant-hunter Arthur Bulley, strong on rhododendrons and rock plants.

13.6 km NW

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

14.4 km E

Ruined castle on a dramatic sandstone crag.

15 km SE

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

15.5 km NE

Half-timbered Tudor manor with knot garden.

16.4 km N

Former Dee port turned quiet promenade village, its old sea wall now looking over vast salt marshes and famous for shrimps and ice cream.

17.4 km NW · Cheshire

Old sea-wall promenade at Parkgate overlooking a huge tract of Dee salt marsh, famous for birds of prey and winter high-tide spectacles.

17.8 km NW

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

18.7 km E

Garden village built by soap magnate William Lever for his workers, 800 Arts-and-Crafts houses around greens and the Lady Lever Art Gallery.

19.6 km N · Merseyside

Grand gallery at the heart of Port Sunlight, built by Lord Leverhulme for his collection of Pre-Raphaelites, Wedgwood and fine furniture.

19.7 km N

Romantic gardens around a Gothic castle with temple and folly water gardens, a glade, arboretum and lavish herbaceous borders.

19.7 km SE

Country house famed for upstairs-downstairs life.

19.9 km S

The ordinary Liverpool semi where John Lennon grew up, kept as it was when his Aunt Mimi ran the house

20.7 km N

Country park in the limestone gorge of the River Alyn with riverside trails, old lead-mining remains and a visitor centre.

21 km W

Liverpool's largest Victorian park, laid out in 1872 by a French designer.

21.6 km N

The longest single canal in Britain, crossing the Pennines by Bingley's Five Rise Locks and the moors above Burnley.

22.7 km N · spans 5 counties

Giles Gilbert Scott's red sandstone giant, built between 1904 and 1978 and the largest cathedral in Britain.

23.6 km N

The length of the Welsh borders, tracking the eighth-century earthwork that once divided kingdoms.

23.9 km SW · spans 8 counties

Late-medieval holy well and chapel at Holywell, a pilgrimage site since at least 1115 where visitors still bathe in the spring water.

24.1 km NW

Frederick Gibberd's round 1960s Catholic cathedral, known locally as Paddy's Wigwam, lit by a lantern tower of coloured glass.

24.3 km N

Family dairy farm near Nantwich famous for its ice cream and the giant straw sculpture raised in its field each summer.

24.6 km SE

The world's first publicly funded park, by Joseph Paxton, inspiration for Central Park.

24.8 km NW

Telford's dead-straight last great canal, running embankment-and-cutting from the Black Country to the Mersey at Ellesmere Port.

0.3 km N · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

A river from Llyn Tegid in Eryri through the Vale of Llangollen and Chester to a wide estuary on the Irish Sea.

0.5 km SE · spans 5 counties

Handsome Grosvenor-estate pub in Aldford with a conservatory and big garden near the Dee.

7.2 km S

Trim Grosvenor-estate village of matching brick cottages near Eaton Hall, with a Victorian church and an iron bridge over the Dee.

7.4 km S · Cheshire