Home Page Skip Navigation

Tourist Information Centre

Congleton Tourist Information Centre is at hand to make sure your trip to South East Cheshire runs smoothly from start to finish. For extra information whilst in the Borough please visit our touch screen information kiosk at Roadchef, Sandbach Services Northbound.

Discover South East Cheshire

From Roman Middlewich to Saxon Sandbach, South East Cheshire is steeped in history, enabling you to experience true culture and finely preserved heritage, explore our bustling market towns and quaint rural villages.

Home / The Textile Triangle - Groups / Tapestry and Transport

Tapestry and Transport

Knutsford Heritage Centre

90A King Street, Knutsford. Tel: 01565 650506

Visit www.virtual-knutsford.co.uk/frameset.php?main=/heritagecentre.htm

Tapestry

Visit Knutsford Heritage Centre, to see the beautiful Millennium Tapestry - an inspired work of contemporary art which took 83 kilometres of wool, 6.5 million stitches and 53 metres of canvas and 3,000 stitchers. Enjoy coffee and a chat with some of the Knutsford women who helped create the tapestry. Knutsford itself is a most charming market town with connections to Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.

Open - Mon - Sat - 11.00 - 4.00. Sundays - closed.

FREE ADMISSION

Churnet Valley Railway

Cheddleton Station, Station Road, Cheddleton, ST13 7EE01538 360522 or enquiries@churnetvalleyrailway.co.uk

www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk

A truly beautiful heritage railway deep in the heart of Staffordshire's secret valley.

Open: Easter - October. Open every Sunday and all Bank Hol Mondays. July and August every Saturday.
August every Wednesday (please phone before visit)

Discovery Centre

Bollington Discovery Centre, Canal 5, Clarence Mill, Clarence Road, Bollington, Macclesfield, SK10 5JZ

01625 572985
discover@happy-valley.org.uk

www.happy-valley.org.uk/discover/discover.htm

Opening times - Saturday and Sunday - 11am til 4pm
Wednesday - 1.30pm til 4pm

The Discovery Centre in Bollington is located on the canal side at Clarence Mill, bringing together the history of this and other great mills of Bollington, the Macclesfield Canal and showing their place and importance to the town. Here you will find the story of Bollington and it's people, from an agricultural backwater in Macclesfield, to the realisation of the use of its streams and rivers to power the cotton mills that made the town what it is today.