Wilmslow and Handforth

Retaining a village atmosphere, Wilmslow has a reputation for sophisticated modern shops which surround a fashionable department store, together with a range of restaurants suiting all tastes. Lindow Man, now in the British Museum, was discovered in peat workings at nearby Lindow Common. The smallest tourism attraction in the country, Romany's Caravan, draws visitors with happy memories of BBC Children's Hour programmes to its site in the town centre.

At the northern edge of the borough, Handforth's development as a residential area and, of recent years, as home to the large attractive shopping complex of Handforth Dean, Handforth belies its historic origins as part of the estate of Urian Brereton, who built the historic, privately-owned picturesque Handforth Hall in 1562.