Here are some other useful contact numbers and websites

WHILE we are sure you will enjoy a visit solely to the museum, visitors from outside the town may also like to make it into a day out by visiting other parts of the town and area - or stay longer and see the surrounding tourist attractions. Full details - including accommodation - can be obtained from Nantwich Tourist Information Centre in the Civic Hall, Market Street (part of Cheshire East Council's office). Telephone and fax: 01270 537359.

Miscellaneous

Museums, etc

• Englesea Brook Museum and Chapel  Museum of Primitive Methodism.
• Congleton Museum  A town museum.
• Culture24 website (formerly the 24-Hour Museum). A listing of UK museums.

Sponsors

• Cheshire East Council   Headquarters in Sandbach. Telephone: 0300 123 55 00.
• Nantwich Town Council   Telephone: 01270 619224.
• Joseph Heler  Local cheese makers and distributors. Telephone: 01270 841500.

Travel, etc

• Accommodation  If you are planning to stay overnight in the Nantwich area, this list (on a separate website) may help. The museum has not inspected any of the premises.

• Buses: Cheshire East Transport and Travel: Telephone: 01270 505350 (Cheshire East website). Arriva Midlands North Ltd: Telephone (Crewe bus station): 01270  505855. First PMT: Telephone: 01782 207999; website. 

• National Rail  Telephone: 0845 7 48 49 50.   Wales and Border Trains.

Events

• Holly Holy Day  A website about the annual (January) Holly Holy Day which includes a its Battle of Nantwich re-enactment.  Battle of Nantwich page on this website.

Related attractions

To find out more about salt, visit the website of the Salt Museum at Northwich, Cheshire. Telephone: 01606 41331. There is also the Lion Salt Works at Marston, Northwich. Telephone: 01606 41823.

Tours

We have tours around Nantwich. Ask at the Museum for details. Crewe and Nantwich Weaver Rotary Club conduct walking tours of the town on Sundays from May to September. And here is one with a specific interest: Nantwich Ghost Tours.

Nantwich websites

To find out more out about Nantwich, you can visit a number of websites. Click on any of the links in this paragraph.

   There is Nantwich, Bill Pearson's website, and NantwichWEB. There is also a Nantwich page on the personal website The Sandland Experience, one by Peter Robinson - and there's a personal website called A Dabber's Nantwich by our webmaster which includes What's On and Website pages for Nantwich and surrounding districts. 

   There is more history - featuring an Elizabethan walled garden on the edge of town - in a website for the Nantwich Walled Garden Society. 

   The Nantwich Group of the Family History Society of Cheshire has a website here.

   There are also commercial websites, including The Best of . . . Nantwich and Come to Nantwich which will provide information about the town.

   If you are planning a longer visit to Nantwich - and you are here at the relevant time - you could visit a production by Nantwich Players at their theatre on the Waterlode/Love Lane car park off Pillory Street - opposite the Museum. 

Other places to visit while in the area

AUDLEM is a pleasant village about eight miles from Nantwich. For more information, visit http://www.audlem.org/

WRENBURY is another local village you may care to go to. Their website is: www.wrenbury.info/ 

Other

tourist

attractions

Cotebrook Shire Horse Centre, and Countryside Park, Tarporley

Cheshire is one of the counties in British Waterways' Four Counties ring of canals. For more information about cruising on the area's inland waterways visit: www.waterscape.com/westmidlandscruisingrings.

Also visit www.britishwaterways.co.uk  

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