Black Firs & Cranberry Bog

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

2.8 km NE · Cheshire

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

8.6 km N · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

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.

9.8 km E

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

9.9 km W · Cheshire

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

10.6 km W

Pair of intricately carved Saxon stone crosses from the 9th century standing in Sandbach's cobbled market square.

10.6 km N