Visitor attractions and information - Runcorn
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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