Places to visit
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Cheshire is rich with houses and gardens, including many of the National Trust’s finest properties. Here are our suggestions:
- Tatton Park – mansion and huge gardens, set in a 1000 acre deer park, near Manchester.
- Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate – see what the industrial revolution meant to the people who worked in it. A working cotton mill, mill workers’ village and estate, and the poignant Apprentice House, where waifs and strays lived a life of hard work and few prospects.
- Dunham Massey – a lovely mansion and estate, and a chance to find out what life was like for the servants who lived their lives ‘below stairs’. Near Altrincham.
- Arley Hall & Gardens – a lovely Victorian manor, built in the fashionable Elizabethan style, with one of the best gardens in the country. Arley has become a favourite wedding venue – if you’re going to a wedding at Arley Hall and are looking for accommodation, rvl is only half an hour’s drive away along good roads.
- Lyme Park – a wonderful picture-book house, with Victorian gardens and set in a deer park. And of course the home to Mr Darcy’s famous watery walk in ‘Pride and Prejudice’!
- Little Moreton Hall – the classic black-and-white Cheshire house. Timber-framed and dating from the 15th century, Little Moreton Hall is probably the finest building of its type in the country – which has made it something of a film-star these days, as it’s appeared in many films and documentaries!