Famously built to keep out the Viking invaders, Runcorn is a thriving seaside staycation destination. Runcorn is one of those towns which has everything. It is a bit of a tourist attraction, given its location inside Cheshire. It was a designated New Town in 1964, meaning it saw super expansion, it is an industrial town…
Sandbach: Land of Anglo-Saxon crosses, Tudor timber houses, and the annual Sandbach Carnival. Situated somewhere south of Manchester city, you will come across the busy large town of Sandbach. Although peculiarly named, this wholesome town plays host to 19,000 people and counting. Found in the east Cheshire Plain, this land has seen habitation since the…
The Cheshire town of Northwich has a salty history, but not in the way you might expect. Northwich is a Cheshire town with a long history in the salt trade. Here in Britain, we don’t have mountains with concreted salt to harvest. If we want it, we have to extract it from the sea, or…
Take a tour of the town built on the opulence of a canal. Essentially an industrial town, people say that Ellesmere Port didn’t exist before the 18the century. Whether it existed or not, we managed to scrape up the history of the Before Times, talk you through the best bits of Ellesmere Port, and even…
Widnes in Cheshire a Township like no other. The first thing we read about Widnes was that it was flat, open country, devoid of anything beautiful… and we immediately got a little defensive. There’s a gorgeous river running through town, there are red sandstone boulders and natural clays around town, and there are plenty of…
Macclesfield is one of those towns which people have heard of but often have no idea where it is or what it is famous for. Well, quickly we can tell you it’s in Cheshire famous for silk and its Georgian town hall It also has a football club that has been through the wringer but…
Craig Taylor