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Warrington, Widnes, Runcorn Street Atlas.
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Speke Hall, The Walk, Liverpool, L24 1XD - Tel: 0151 427723.
One of England's greatest timber-framed mansions with rich Victorian
interiors. Outside there are woodland walks and gardens including
a rose garden and a tunnel to a secret stream garden. Superb
views across the Mersey. Location: About 5 miles west of Runcorn
Warrington Museum and
Art Gallery, Bold Street, Warrington WA1 1JG. Tel: 01925 - 442733.
The building houses a collection of around 1,000 paintings, (oils,
watercolours and prints) from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Also ethnology, egyptology, geology, Roman Britain, pottery/ceramics,
botany, fish, amphibians, reptiles, the Civil War, local industries,
birds and mammals, and glass. About 7 miles northeast of Runcorn.
Gulliver's World, Old Hall, Warrington WA5 9YZ. Tel: 01925 444888.
Gulliver’s Warrington is nestled within a beautiful park
setting, where much of the fantasy is created by wonderful towering
trees, and a beautiful lake forms the centrepiece of the park.
From the tumbling and juggling fun of Circus World, mosey on
down to High Noon in Western World, walk with dinosaurs in the
prehistoric Lost World, feel your knees tremble in Count’s
Castle and shiver your timbers in Smugglers Wharf. www.gulliversfun.co.uk.
About 7 miles northeast of Runcorn.
Catalyst, Mersey Road,
Widnes WA8 0DF. Tel: 0151 420 112. Catalyst is the only science
centre (and museum) solely devoted to chemistry and how the products
of chemistry are used in every day life - from medicines to meccano.
Our key aim is to inform people of all ages about the "chemistry"
industry and its role in our lives, past present and future.
www.catalyst.org.uk. Location: About 2 miles north of Runcorn.
Norton Priory Museum & Gardens, Tudor Road, Manor Park, Runcorn,
Cheshire WA7 1SX. Tel 01928 569895. Norton Priory Museum &
Gardens is an independent museum, established in 1975 to care
for one of the country's most important monastic sites, which
encompasses in its 38 acres museum galleries, the ruins of a
medieval priory and a formal Walled Garden. One of the largest
excavated monastic sites in Europe. Norton Priory Museum &
Gardens are open every day from 12 noon and are well signposted
from Junction 11of the M56. www.nortonpriory.org. About 2 miles
east of Runcorn.
ANDERTON BOAT LIFT, Lift
Lane, Anderton, Northwich CW9 6FW- Tel: 01606 786777. The Anderton
Boat Lift is one of the greatest monuments to Britain's last
canal age and known as the "Cathedral of the Canals".
Built in 1875 it was the world's first and is currently the UK's
only Boat Lift. Boat owners and visitors alike are able to ride
the Lift and a new Operations Centre houses education and visitor
facilities - creating one of the region's most important visitor
attractions. About 9 miles southeast of Runcorn.
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