Tatton Park

It's a working observatory with the Lovell Telescope.

We've got Tatton Park.

We've got Dunham Massey.

These are amazing heritage houses, especially in the Christmas season, are somewhere that is just a must visit, in my opinion.

Yeah.

What's the easiest one? Is it the one at Tatton Park-

Yeah

... as people say? [laughs]

The Northwest Green Belt also offers some fantastic rural attractions.

Here, you can find places like Brockholes in Lancashire, which is the county's premier nature reserve and home to hundreds of species of fish, birds, and mammals, as well as Tatton Park in Cheshire.

Tatton Park features a 1,000-acre deer park and is a brilliant place to learn about local history and the building of Tatton Old Hall that started in the 15th century.

Last but not least, the West Midlands Green Belt allows many across Birmingham, Hereford, and Worcester to enjoy nearby country parks and dramatic natural ridges.

You can visit places like the 2,100-acre Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield, the Kinver Edge and the Rock Houses in Stourbridge, and the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, an entirely open-air museum that tells the story of the town's industrial roots.

James Hartshorn asked me yesterday, would you be able to just run round, get round? And I was like, well...

probably I'd give it all my all for where I currently am but I don't think I would have got around that course in one piece what's the point as well you don't want to do that do you no so yeah um Yeah, I'm hoping to do Tatton Park in January.

That's where my head's at at the moment.

It's

We still talk about that weekend.

The barge in Liverpool, the enormous crane at Tatton Park, My daughters jumping, the laughing afterwards and that odd mix of relief and exhilaration and shared achievement.

There was only one complication.

We had to live it first.

It evaluates what happened, builds an account of it, and helps decide whether we'd choose something like it again.

Now this isn't just about facts.

I remember perfectly well that I stood on a crane at Tatton Park.

The interesting bit is how I judge the whole episode.

Within minutes, we'd found it.

The UK's highest civilian bungee jump, set at Tatton Park.

A 300-foot drop over a lake, suspended from a mobile crane.

It was absurd.

Denial, I've come to believe, is a criminally underrated coping strategy.

We wandered the city with a strange calm that bordered on avoidance.

But eventually, as all roads must, ours led to Tatton Park.

And there it was.

Do you know why we say the phrase Flaming Nora? Or do you know the word confelicity? Do you know what it means? Neither did I.

Well, you're going to find out in this chat, which I had with Susie live at the Happy Place Festival in Tatton Park just a few weeks ago.

So let's talk about Susie's book.

She's written this fiction, Death Writ Large.

Welcome to Cheshire.

Thank you.

Isn't this beautiful? Tatton Park is so pretty.

We love it here.