Visit Cheshire East Place – things to do & explore
Visit Cheshire East places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to Cheshire East things to do.
Visiting Cheshire East Overview
Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire . The main towns within the area are Crewe, Macclesfield, Congleton, Sandbach, Wilmslow, Knutsford and Nantwich . The council is based in Sandbach .
When you visit Cheshire East, Cheshire East history becomes available at the places you travel to by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Cheshire East places overview by Walkfo
Visit to Cheshire East stats
With 614 tourism audio plaques & places for you to explore in Cheshire East, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider in the world. Our AI continually learns & refines content about the best Cheshire East places to visit from online information authorities like Wikipedia for current & history, and converts it into an audio experience.
Cheshire East history
The borough council was established in April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. It is an amalgamation of the former boroughs of Macclesfield, Congleton and Crewe and Nantwich. Cheshire East has historic links to textile mills of the industrial revolution.
Cheshire East geography / climate
Cheshire East lies within North West England. It borders Cheshire West and Chester to the west, Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east as well as Staffordshire and Shropshire. It is home to the Cheshire Plain and the southern hills of the Pennines.
When you visit Cheshire East
You can visit Cheshire East places and use Walkfo Cheshire East to discover the history & things to do in Cheshire East whilst walking with our free digital tour app. Walkfo Cheshire East has 614 places on our Cheshire East map with history, culture & travel facts that you explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Cheshire East, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Cheshire East will keep up.
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With millions of places including tourist walks, Cheshire East travel destinations, National Trust locations converted to audio experiences, our Cheshire East places AI guide will help you get the best from your visit to Cheshire East & the surrounding areas. The Cheshire East places app for iPhone & Android delivers hidden history, interesting culture and amazing facts in interactive audio stories in response to where you walk at National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets, with no predefined walk map requirements.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 614 audio facts unique to Cheshire East places forming an interactive Cheshire East map for you to explore.”
Walkfo’s Visit Cheshire East Places Map
614 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Walkfo Cheshire East tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Cheshire East |
Best Cheshire East places to visit
Cheshire East has many places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Cheshire East’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Cheshire East’s information audio spots:
![]() | Toft Hall Toft Hall is a 17th-century country house in Toft, Cheshire, England to which additions and alterations have been made during the following three centuries . |
![]() | Over Tabley Hall Over Tabley Hall is a country house in the parish of Tabley Superior in Cheshire . It stands in an isolated position to the northwest of junction 19 of the M6 motorway . |
![]() | Mere Old Hall Mere Old Hall is a 17th-century country house which stands to the west of the village of Mere and the junction of the A566 and A50 roads in Cheshire . |
![]() | Tatton Park Gardens Tatton Park Gardens consist of formal and informal gardens . Included in the gardens are an Italian garden, a walled garden, rose garden, and the Japanese garden . The gardens are owned by the National Trust and administered by Cheshire East Council . |
![]() | Tatton Park Flower Show RHS Flower Show Tatton Park first began in 1999 by the Royal Horticultural Society . The show houses the RHS National Flower Bed Competition, Young Designer of the Year Award and a wide range of inspirational show gardens . |
![]() | River Wheelock River Wheelock is a small river in Cheshire in north west England . It drains water from the area between Sandbach and Crewe, and joins the River Dane at Middlewich . Alternative names for the river have been recorded in 1619 as Sutton Watter, Sutton Brooke, and Lawton Brooke . |
![]() | Porch House, Nantwich The Porch House, formerly sometimes the Porche House, is a large Georgian house, dating from the late 18th century . It is located at numbers 64A and 64B on the north side of Welsh Row (at SJ6471452454) It is entered via its former stable entrance, The Gateway . |
![]() | Dorfold Hall Dorfold Hall (SJ635524) is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in Acton, Cheshire . It is considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be one of the two finest houses in the county . The present owners are the Roundells . |
![]() | Stapeley House Stapeley House was built in 1778 and remodelled in 1847–48 by Anthony Salvin . It has subsequently been converted for use as offices . The house is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings and it has a slate roof . |
![]() | St Peter’s Church, Congleton St Peter’s Church is in Chapel Street, Congleton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List as a Grade I listed building. Alec Clifton-Taylor includes it in his list of ‘best’ English parish churches. |
Visit Cheshire East plaques
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here Cheshire East has 33 physical plaques within tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Cheshire East plaques when visiting. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened. Where a plaque is available, Walkfo AI has done research to provide additional, deeper content when you visit Cheshire East using the app. Experience hidden history & stories at each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses trigger audio close to each Cheshire East plaque. Explore Cheshire East Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.