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1. Grosvenor Museum 2. National Waterways Museum 3. Anson Engine Museum 4. Little Moreton Hall
There are few British cities to match to salt-works in the 11th century. fabric sales, involving museums,
Chester’s rich Roman heritage, The textile industry created the contemporary textile artists,
from its great amphitheatre to the fabric of life in the Cheshire Peak restoration experts and historians,
collections of the Grosvenor Museum. District. The Silk Museum tells of fabric warehouses, churches and
But the story of the Romans in Macclesfield’s history as the centre emerging textile fashion designers.
Cheshire continues at Warrington of English silk production while
Museum, a real adventure in Quarry Bank Mill in Styal was at Then there are the Church Tales to
time travel, packed with weird the forefront of the Northwest’s tell – of the 17th century dissenters
and wonderful displays. cotton industry. In the Anson who founded the Unitarian Chapel
Engine Museum, a real hidden in Knutsford, where Elizabeth
The sweeping Cheshire Plain gem, fuelled by sheer enthusiasm, Gaskell is buried; of the 18th
was the centre of Medieval salt you can see the mighty machinery century farmers who built Jenkin
production and to this day the that used to power this industry. Chapel in the Macclesfield Forest,
salt beneath Cheshire’s rich dairy Congleton Museum ties together to this day still so unspoilt that it
pastures gives Cheshire Cheese the history of the “Narrow was a perfect location for the BBC’s
its distinctive tangy flavour. Fabric towns” as Macclesfield, Jane Eyre; of Alice in Wonderland,
Nantwich Museum, the Lion Congleton and neighbouring whose storybook characters are
Salt Works and the Salt Museum Leek were known. depicted in the stained glass
at Northwich and events in windows of Daresbury Church,
Middlewich all celebrate the In July 2009, the Three Shires where Lewis Carroll spent his
area’s salt industry as well as Textile Festival presents a 2-week childhood. At Norton Priory
providing a glimpse of rural programme of exhibitions, Museum and Gardens time
life in and around the Cheshire talks, behind-the-scenes tours, spans 900 years, from the 12th
“Wiches” – the name given textile craft fairs, workshops and century Undercroft and the 14th
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