Runcorn Ski Centre
The dry ski slope in the corner of Runcorn's Town Park, running group and private ski lessons, snowboard lessons and family tubing. Leggings will get you turned away at the door. Long trousers, long socks.
Norton Priory
Runcorn, Cheshire
Europe's most excavated monastic site, with a medieval undercroft, a puzzlingly giant statue of St Christopher and a walled garden running apple days and bug hunts.
It is ten minutes away, rarely busy and quietly excellent - the local history day that feels like a find.
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Halton Miniature Railway
Seven and a quarter inch gauge, a loop of nearly a mile through Runcorn Town Park, a ride of about ten minutes and no charge. It has run since 1979, and only when a volunteer turns up to drive.
Wigg Island Community Park
Fifty seven acres of nature reserve wedged between the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal at Astmoor. Flat paths, water on both sides, a lot of birds. Nothing to climb on.
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