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Horse riding is permitted on the Tatton estate all year round.
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Explore your social and industrial heritage! - Cheshire has many working museums, with carefully preserved and restored original machinery and buildings that bring alive the stories of the people whose lives were shaped by industry.
The museums also give us an in site into religious and social development through the ages.
There are over 20 museums in the Cheshire, covering everything from historic houses, ecclesiastical history, ancient market towns to salt, silk and canals.
Visit Anderton Boat Lift - one of Britain's greatest monuments to Britain's latest canal age, where you can watch this massive structure first hand. Or the award wining Anson Engine Museum, which houses a collection of over 180 combustion engines!
Discover the secret underground world of Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker - where real nuclear weapons were stored in this 35000 square foot underground bunker.
Visit the massive telescope at Jodrell Bank which can be seen from miles around, or the world's largest collection of floating craft, housed in original dock buildings and cottages at The Boat Museum.
Explore the East Cheshire Textile Triangle; learn about the Leek embroiderers, the Silk Weavers of Macclesfield, the pauper children at Quarry Bank Mill, or the Congleton Ribbon Makers. Or enjoy the varied collection of 18th century painting and furniture at the Lady Lever Art Gallery.