Malpas

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Malpas is a hilltop market village of Georgian brick on the Welsh border, its high street climbing to the fine sandstone church of St Oswald at the very top — worth the walk up for the carved alabaster tombs inside. It’s quiet these days, with a scatter of independent shops. Well off the rail network: Whitchurch, just over the Shropshire line, is the nearest station at about 9km.

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St Oswald's Church (Malpas)

Church near Malpas

Grade I sandstone church crowning the highest point of Malpas, with a fine roof and two family chapels.

0.3 km SW

Sandstone Trail

Long-distance path

Cheshire's best-known walk, running the wooded sandstone ridge from Frodsham to Whitchurch above the plain.

3.2 km NE · Cheshire & Shropshire

Llangollen Canal

Canal

The most-cruised canal in Britain, crossing the Dee valley 38 metres up on Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

5.2 km SE · spans 4 counties

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Cholmondeley Castle Gardens

Garden near Cholmondeley

Romantic gardens around a Gothic castle with temple and folly water gardens, a glade, arboretum and lavish herbaceous borders.

6 km NE

River Dee

River

A river from Llyn Tegid in Eryri through the Vale of Llangollen and Chester to a wide estuary on the Irish Sea.

6.7 km W · spans 5 counties

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Wild Shropshire

Restaurant near Whitchurch

Foraging and preserving-led restaurant on the Shropshire-Cheshire border.

8 km SE