Other sights in CheshireCheshire, England

World Heritage radio-astronomy site near Goostrey, dominated by the giant Lovell Telescope, with a science-centre and arboretum.

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

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

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

Whitewashed sugar-loaf folly on Kerridge Hill above Bollington, built to mark Waterloo, with wide views over plain, Pennines and Wales.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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