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Increasingly used by radio, TV and film producers from Steven Speilberg to Granada TV, the area has been chosen for scenes in notable productions such as Empire of the Sun, Pride and Prejudice and Brideshead Revisited. Fans of Mr. Darcy can follow a Pemberley trail at Lyme Park.

Literary lions can trace locations feature in Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, while Knutsford is Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. The TV production in 1999 of her Wives and Daughters focuses attention on her life and a Knutsford Town Trail guides enthusiasts to the places she knew and loved.

Notable historical connections include Gawsworth Hall, where Shakespeare's possible Dark Lady, Mary Fitton, lived, and many locations featured in locally born Charles Tunnicliffe's natural history books and drawings.

Visitors from the USA should call at the Silk Museum in Macclesfield, where links with Patterson, New Jersey can be found, and a plaque in the Ruskin Rooms in Knutsford and a flag at the church at Lower Peover relates the US Army's General George Patton's stay in the Second World War.