Places to explore near Warrington

Wooded reservoir on the edge of Lymm village, a peaceful circular walk of water, dingle and gorge.

7.8 km E

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

10.2 km SE

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

12.3 km SE · Cheshire

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

12.4 km S

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

13.7 km S

An early-Georgian mansion with one of Britain's largest winter gardens and a deer park.

13.7 km E

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

14.1 km SW

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.

14.4 km SE

Neoclassical mansion, gardens and vast deer park.

15.6 km SE

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

16.7 km N · spans 5 counties

The Leeds & Liverpool waterfront Orwell made shorthand for hard times, its old warehouses now the heart of a canalside quarter.

17.1 km N

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

17.8 km SE · Cheshire

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

18.3 km S

The world's first swing aqueduct — a 235-foot iron trough that pivots aside, water and all, to let ships pass on the Manchester Ship Canal.

18.7 km NE

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

19 km W

Half-timbered Tudor manor with knot garden.

19.2 km W

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

19.6 km SE · Cheshire

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

22.7 km W

A mill estate whose valley garden drops to the River Bollin past restored glasshouses.

22.8 km E

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

24 km SW

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

24.8 km W

The Victorian seaway that made inland Manchester a port, taking ocean-going ships 36 miles up from the Mersey estuary.

2 km S · Cheshire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside

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

2.7 km SE · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

A National Trust place in Cheshire.

7.9 km S

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

9 km S · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Village straddling the Bridgewater Canal, with a sandstone cross, wooded dingle and the reedy expanse of Lymm Dam.

9.2 km E · Cheshire

Old timber-and-brick church at Warburton, on the site of a 12th-century priory of Norbertine canons.

9.5 km E

A country park in Merseyside.

10.2 km W