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Cheshire is renowned for its network of waterways and
there are few landlocked counties so easy to explore by boat.
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1. Relaxing on Cheshire’s waterways
The famous Cheshire Ring will take Test your stamina on Heartbreak
2. The Anderton Boat Lift
3. Canalside socialising in Audlem
you through the Medieval salt town Hill and Bosley Locks, where the
4. Cheshire’s tranquil waterways of Middlewich, home of the annual Macclesfield Canal climbs from
Folk and Boat Festival, past the mill the plains into the foothills of
towns of Congleton, Macclesfield the Cheshire Peak District. Moor
Hire your own
and Bollington in the Cheshire Peak up and visit the Potter’s Barn at
narrowboat and
District, to the picturesque village Hassall Green, Little Moreton Hall
of Audlem near the Welsh border, in Congleton, the Silk Museum
set out on a voyage
and through mile after mile of in Macclesfield, the pubs and
of discovery.
Cheshire’s scenic rural heartlands. restaurants of pretty Bollington,
the magical Anson Engine Museum
Ride on the Anderton Boat Lift, at Higher Poynton.
an extraordinary feat of Victorian
engineering which links the The Cheshire Ring makes a
Trent and Mersey Canal to the perfect holiday circuit for boaters,
River Weaver 50ft below. Stop off connecting with the Peak Forest
at Bunbury Mill on the Shropshire Canal and Manchester’s canal
Union Canal and try your hand at network, or continuing south
flour making. Climb aboard historic through the Harecastle Tunnel
boats and ancient canal craft at to Staffordshire and the Potteries.
the floating National Waterways Alternatively enjoy a leisurely
Museum at Ellesmere Port. cruise on the Shropshire Union
canal from Wrenbury taking in
the delights of Nantwich en-route
toward Chester.
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