Cheshire East - Local Sites of Interest

Local Sites of Interest

The area is home to a large number of sites of public interest:

• Tatton Park is the venue for a variety of events: classical concerts; fireworks displays; classic car shows; open air theatre and the Country Show (massed pipes and drums, sheepdog trials, competitions, crafts fair, and dancing).

• Gawsworth Hall is a half-timbered hall, and possibly once home to Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady'. Concerts are held in the grounds, and each summer there is an open air theatre season, featuring Shakespearean classics and light opera, comedy, jazz, and drama.

• Cuckooland Museum is a reputed museum which exhibits the world's largest and finest collection of antique cuckoo clocks.

• Arley Hall is a Victorian-Jacobean Grade II listed country house, sometimes used as locations for filming. There has been two Coronation Street weddings filmed here.

• Quarry Bank Mill is set in the village of Styal and is a working water-mill and living museum.

• Capesthorne Hall is a Jacobean-style stately home which plays host to a variety of events.

• Alderley Edge is a great sandstone escarpment that overlooks the Cheshire plain. The Edge itself has been mined for copper since at least the time of the Roman invasion, and is the centre of the legend of the Wizard of Alderley, made famous by local author Alan Garner's books The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath. Nowadays it is said that the Wizard was Merlin, but this is an addition that only appeared over the past thirty years. Tours of the mines are available, but should not be attempted without an experienced guide - the Edge is riddled with mineshafts.

• St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton is a 14th century house of worship which lies on an artificial mound or earthwork.

• Knutsford is best known as the site where King Canute forded the Lily Stream, and as the home of Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, and the town puts on a May Day parade and festival every year.

• Lyme Park is an estate and park located near Disley. Lyme Hall is the principal feature of the park.

• Little Moreton Hall is one of the country's best-preserved half-timbered and moated manor houses.

• Sandbach Crosses are two Anglo-Saxon stone crosses now erected in the market place in the town of Sandbach, Cheshire, England . They are recognised as a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.

• Old Hall Hotel is a Grade I listed building. The Hall is on English Heritage’s Buildings at Risk Register as priority A, this is the highest grading.

• Jodrell Bank Observatory is home to a number of significant radio telescopes including the Lovell Telescope; and is involved in a range of international research projects such as MERLIN.