Places to explore near Northwich StationNorthwich

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

0.3 km NW

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.

1.5 km N

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

2.6 km NW

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

3.7 km N · Cheshire

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

7 km N

Cobbled lane leading to the timber-framed church of St Oswald and the old Bells of Peover inn beside it.

7.2 km E · Cheshire

Elegant market town of independent shops and monthly artisan markets, the 'Cranford' of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel.

9.5 km NE · Cheshire

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

1.2 km W · Cheshire

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

1.3 km E · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Handsome sandstone church rising over the estate village of Great Budworth, with a fine 14th-century tower.

3.6 km N

Rare timber-framed medieval church at Lower Peover, its aisles built of black-and-white oak with a 1582 west tower.

7.2 km E

Creeper-clad 14th-century coaching inn beside the timber-framed church at Lower Peover, reputedly a Patton and Eisenhower haunt in 1944.

7.3 km E

Sixty-year-old grower's farm shop at Byley selling homegrown vegetables and Cheshire produce.

7.4 km SE

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

8.4 km S · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

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

9.4 km W