Neston, Cheshire
We hadn’t been to the Wirral for a while so as it was a nice day we thought we’d pay another visit. Our main destination was the affluent Heswall – birth place of John Peel and home to lots of nice charity shops. However our first port of call was Neston, which I was surprised to find was not in fact part of the Wirral, but on the very edges of Cheshire. Normally getting to Neston from north Manchester is about an hour via the M60, M62, M6, M56, A540 and B5134. However, due to road works we ended up going via Widnes / Runcorn, which wasn’t much better either as we got stuck in more road works. Hopefully when they finish the bridge works over the Mersey it might be a better route. At least we found free parking in Neston, which is always good. Neston itself is a quiet well-to-do town. Architecturally small scale with some nice red brick buildings, interspersed with black and white rendered buildings with a hint to the 20 th century wit...