Hatherton Lodge Farm

Walks including the South Cheshire Way (accessed from site) are easy to find around here, and there’s plenty to do for anyone who just wants to be outdoors. Try your hand a dinghy sailing at the Nantwich and Border Counties Sailing Club (10 minutes’ drive), while landlubbers might like to try testing their shot at Mickley Hall Shooting School (15 minutes), or fishing for carp at Coole Acres Fishery and Leisure Park (15 minutes). Budding antiques specialists can have a root around for bargains at Dagfields Craft and Antiques (five minutes), and keen gardeners can inspect the plantings and the gorgeous Laburnam Walk at The Dorothy Clive Garden (15 minutes) – pick up plants at Bridgemere Garden World (10 minutes) as souvenirs of your Cheshire stay. Travelling with family? Younger kids will probably be very happy indeed if you take them to BeWILDerwood Cheshire (25 minutes) to run around on treetop rope courses and listen to story-telling sessions. Looking for a rainy-day option? Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker (20 minutes) has subterranean tours and 20th-century military history exhibitions.