The Best Places To Visit in Macclesfield

We spent an extremely interesting couple of hours in the silk museum and mill tour which is next door, but both booked at the same point. The museum has lots to interest children, but the mill tour might not be as suitable. However, for us adults, it was amazing, from the actual building to the machines and the technology and methods used. All in an authentic setting and so you actually feel you are taken back a hundred years. Very impressed with the guide, whose explanations were spot-on.

Although I am a volunteer at Hare Hill, I have never walked in the park land or understood what the park rangers do. On Friday morning I joined a 2 hour organised walk in the park with Hallam, one of the rangers, as the guide. Hallam explained all about the restoration/repairs of the culverts which were being carried out by the rangers and their ranger volunteers and how they managed the woodland areas. During the walk we heard & glimpsed a woodpecker & saw a mink. I thoroughly enjoyed.

I went here whilst waiting for my wife who had an outpatients appointment at the nearby Macclesfield General Hospital (just 5 mins walk away). Its a truly superb museum housed within a lovely building - and its free. The building is small but don't be deceived - you can easily spend an hour or more in here. The military and other memorabilia are well displayed with excellent descriptive material but the highlight is the Egyptology collection. You are given a torch by the charming and helpful.