Visitor attractions and information - Widnes
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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 5 miles east of
Widnes. |
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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 6 miles east of Widnes. |
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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:
In the centre of Widnes. |
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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 4 miles east of
Widnes. |
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