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Situated on the lower, western slopes
of the Pennines, Macclesfield was first known for buttons, then
later as a silk town. Silk mills, chapels and banks, all solid
square buildings of blackened stone, are scattered throughout
the town. The Heritage Centre was once a huge Sunday school and
now houses the splendid silk museum and shop. Nearby Paradise
Mill is a working museum of the town's former silk industry.
Twenty six hand - powered Jacquard looms survive and are used
to demonstrate the skills of a dying craft. |
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Shrigley Hall |
....located about
5 miles north of Macclesfield, Barceló Shrigley Hall Hotel
is an impressive manor house set in 262 acres of leafy Cheshire
countryside. |
..sitting high above
the estate on the edge of the Peak District National Park. |
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de Vere Mottram Hall |
...about 5 miles north
of Macclesfield, Mottram Hall is one of Cheshire's most exclusive,
Leisure, Golf & Business Hotels. |
.....nestled in 270
acres of picturesque parkland with its own ornamental lake |
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