Betley Mere

Tiny estate village of thatch and timber, its church and the black-and-white White Lion inn scene of a Civil War massacre.

4.7 km NE · Cheshire

Fifteen-lock 'Audlem Flight' climbing the Shropshire Union Canal through the village, a favourite towpath walk.

10.1 km SW

Cold War regional-government bunker near Nantwich, a 35,000-square-foot underground complex kept secret until 1993, now a museum.

10.2 km W

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

10.2 km NE · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Medieval salt town on the Weaver, dense with black-and-white timbered buildings and crowned by St Mary's, the cathedral of south Cheshire.

10.4 km NW · Cheshire

Brindley's mile-and-a-half canal tunnel under Harecastle Hill, its water stained orange with ironstone; boats pass through Telford's later parallel bore.

10.7 km NE