Place to stop between Cornwall and Chester

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Hello

We're travelling from Cornwall to Chester in October and would like to spend a day and a night somewhere in between. Anyone got any good suggestions please?

TIA

bristol or bath?

It's really not that far would you want to stop a whole night? You'd be driving past the cotswolds, cheddar gorge and bath, we had lunch at cheddar on the way to Devon the other week.

Cheltenham’s very nice.

Go see Warwick Castle!
It is geared for kids (except the dungeon part, skip that) but the rest is a fantastic full day.

Link
www.warwick-castle.com/

Not far? It’s bloody miles! We stayed over twice, Exeter and Worcester (but we were going about an hour further than Chester so worth it for us to stop in Worcester)

Get a grip it's only 12 miles and half an hour more than where I travel from, I have never stopped over night, one lunch stop and maybe a toilet stop if the traffic has been terrible. My dp doesn't drive so I drive the whole way it's really not that bad although as we got caught up in some traffic once we have considered driving overnight.

It amazes me these days, that someone comes on to MN to ask a simple question, such as the OP's, and gets berated for it.

It's all a bit Monty Python..... ' stopping to break up a journey? In my day we would have walked from Cornwall to Chester, had a short 10 minute break in a ditch on the way, and prepared a banquet for 600 before returning the next day.'

We don't know why she wants to stop along the way, she may want to take the opportunity to see a different part of the UK she wouldn't otherwise see, she may be breastfeeding a baby, have young squabbling kids, not want to drive in the dark, have someone in the car with health issues, who knows?

She or he just asked for places to stop

I would second Bristol/ Bath depending on who you are travelling with. Bristol has zoo and Science Museum if you have kids, but traffic can be a pain depending when you arrive.

I gave suggestions, my get a grip comment was @Proseccoinamug making out it's generally too far to travel in a day or whatever.

Cirencester? Not too far off the M5 either.

Slimbridge. Visit the Wildfowl Trust. Beautiful.

25 minutes from Junction 14 of the M5

And raspberryk, did you mean to be so rude?
I didn’t say it was impossible to travel in a day. It’s possible but it’s a flipping long way and we didn’t want to. You can choose not to, that’s fine.

It’s about 8 hours door to door if traffic is decent. So I guess seven hours to Chester.
We’d been driving nearly 4 hours by the time we got to Exeter, that was plenty for us thank you.

Ludlow, hereford would both probably be half way ish

Warwick really is a bit of a detour!

Worcester is lovely. Do you have DC, if so what are their ages?

It's one of those journeys where the traffic can be hideous tbh.

When we travel from Chester to Cornwall we stop in Bristol (my mum is disabled and can't be in a car for 7 hours in one day before anyone tells me how ridiculous I am).

On the way back we stay in Warwick

Whereabouts in Cornwall? Where I would choose to stop would depend on whether I was going to far west Cornwall or say no further than Bodmin.

Depends what you like. Newent Falconry Centre used to be good - haven't been for ages - and is very close to the Malvern hills for some really pretty walking.

As others have said you could go to Cheltenham or Cirencester if you like shopping, and pottering around.
You could have a day n night stay in Birmingham - biggest Primark in Europe! Lots of good theatre and maybe time for a visit to Cadbury World.

But do try to build in time for a visit to Cosford Air Museum if you can, just north of Wolverhampton. You go right past the door, it's free and a fantastic museum - if you like aircraft, or if you have small people who need to burn off energy. Loads to see, you are indoors most of the time, suitable for kids from tiny to teens.

Ex Chester resident now living in Stratford Upon Avon. Just over 2hrs down the M6 and a great place to stop over- lots of places to visit here.

Thank you for all your advice! We're from the North East and have never visited anywhere on that side of the country so thought we'd take the opportunity on our way home from Cornwall. We're going to The Cotswolds and Dorset on the way down and hoped to stop at 2 places on the way home too :-)

Stop at Ironbridge in Shropshire. It's beautiful

Yy to Ironbridge. Or Boscobel House just north of Wolverhampton. Quaint old farmhouse but you can walk through the field and see the (son of) the oak tree up which Charles II hid, to escape from the roundheads. I loved it as a small child - there's a secret door in the house too, which was used for Catholic priests to hide from the parliamentarians.

Forgot to say that the amazing Air museum at Cosford is free.

We've done this trip and stopped in Salisbury to see Stonehenge on the way down and on the way back we stopped in Bristol and spent some time enjoying the graffiti and street art, particularly hunting out a few of Banksy's pieces, it was great fun.