A few weeks ago, I visited Cheshire and found myself in a charming village of Nantwich. The village has many timber-framed buildings, pubs, and quaint shops. (In fact, there was a music festival happening in the village when I visited, and a lot of the local people were out and enjoying the festivities.)
A church and timber-framed buildings in Nantwich
Old buildings and the millennium clock in Nantwich's Cocoa Yard, including the surviving chimney of a blacksmith's shop
Church in Nantwich
A nuclear bunker museum is located outside the village in the middle of open country. This museum looked interesting.
The secret nuclear bunker in Nantwich
Before exploring Nantwich, we visited the Anderton boat lift. The boat lift uses hydraulics to raise and lower canal boats from a canal on a higher level of land to the river fifty feet below. The boat lift was built in the late 1800s and left to 'rust away' for many years before it was restored and opened to the public once again.
Visitors to the boat lift can enjoy a river boat ride in a canal boat and get a chance to see local wildlife, if they are lucky, and listen to commentary about the area and the history of the boat lift.
The Anderton Boat lift with a canal boat leaving the lift.
A view of the river from the canal boat after a ride on the Anderton Boat lift.
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