A seasonal food and craft market held on the grounds of Hopley House farm and shopping village near Middlewich, in collaboration with Hopley House. Expect live music, cocktail-making demonstrations, street food, independent traders and entertainment across a small number of dates each year.
Middlewich is a small town in Cheshire East, set at the meeting point of the Rivers Dane, Croco and Wheelock. Salt has shaped the town for around two thousand years — the Romans named it Salinae after the brine springs beneath it, and by the thirteenth century around 100 "wych houses" surrounded its two brine pits. Salt production continues today under British Salt, whose Middlewich plant supplies more than half the UK's cooking salt under the Saxa brand, making Middlewich one of Cheshire's three historic "wich" salt towns alongside Northwich and Nantwich.
The town sits at the junction of three canals — the Trent and Mersey, the Shropshire Union's Middlewich branch, and the short Wardle Canal — making it a popular stop for narrowboats and the site of the annual Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival each June. Middlewich lies a few miles from Winsford and Northwich, sharing their salt-town heritage, with the M6 within easy reach for wider travel across the North West.
Places to Stay near Middlewich
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