2014 Leaflet being printed

This year's Audlem Events leaflet has seen the proofs checked by numerous organisations and businesses that plan the major events each year.

As well as Events, the leaflet describes over 12-pages the village's attractions, shops, facilities for food and drink, parking, public toilets etc.

The leaflet describes Audlem as:

Audlem is a vibrant award-winning village, the most southerly in Cheshire within walking distance of the border with Shropshire and the Midlands, making Audlem the First Village of the North.

Audlem has won the best kept award in Cheshire many years in a row, and has also won the National Community of the Year award from Defra in recent years and been Calor Village of the North.

Famed for its flight of fifteen locks on the Shropshire Union Canal near to the village centre, Audlem Wharf is particularly attractive with its pubs and shopping and is regarded as a 'honey pot' on the canal network and an ideal spot to see narrow boats plying the canal and negotiating the locks.

Strolling along the canal and watching all the activity is a popular summertime attraction. But there is much else to see in Audlem.

The centre of the village is dominated by the ancient Church of St James, on an ancient mound, with the Buttermarket below on the village Square – actually a triangle – with an array of shops, many of them recently opened in renovated Georgian buildings, and the Lord Combermere pub.

The number of shops and local businesses has grown significantly in recent years, testimony to the number of visitors drawn to enjoy this rather special Cheshire village.

Wall plaques in the Square testify to the village's many successes. They include the National DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) award when Audlem was adjudged the single best village across England's 50 counties. Audlem has also won the Cheshire Village of the Year on a number of occasions and is the current Overall Championship Village of the Year for all of Cheshire! And there have been years of success in Britain in Bloom and the village's public toilets are award winners too.

Audlem and its cafés and pubs are a magnet for walkers, cyclists and boaters as well as those simply wanting to wander around its streets and alleys or visiting the many festivals and events held in the village each year.

As well as its wide range of shops, the village has a post office, cash machine, pharmacy, hairdressers and medical practice.

A mile north along the canal is the impressive Overwater Marina, opened as recently as 2010. The walk along the canal towpath – the southern end of the Weaver Way which heads across Cheshire to the banks of the Mersey at Frodsham – is proving ever more popular with views of lakes, the River Weaver (crossed by an aqueduct), rolling countryside and the busy marina to the north.

To the south there is always activity on the canal and its locks with the towpath leading up to the hamlet of Coxbank which straddles the border with Shropshire. It is hardly a surprise that this stretch of the canal has been described as one of the finest walks in lowland England and it is often featured in canal and county magazines.

Even better, on your return to Audlem, there are three pubs to choose from, cafés and takeaway food to refresh you by the side of the canal or in the village centre.

There are a number of exceptional houses in the area including Moss Hall, a fine Jacobean house, just outside the village which can be admired from one of the footpaths across meadows between the canal and the village. Two miles to the south is Highfields, a magnificent Tudor mansion which can also be viewed from a public footpath by following a route along the canal and then turning eastwards near Adderley.

Audlem is famed for its festivals and events. A Music & Arts Festival in May; Transport Festival and outdoor Party on the Park; an August Beer Festival; a spectacular November Bonfire and Fireworks event and a number of Christmas events including the Big Switch On which attracts thousands from the surrounding area............

There is much more on Shopping, ADAS, ASET and the Festival, the Highlights for 2014 in a list of major Events, Audlem Lass and, the leaflet's sponsors this year, The Lord Combermere.

Printing of the 8,000 leaflets should be complete by 4th April after which distribution will begin.

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