Top hats, bowlers, trilbies …. who doesn’t love a hat? Visit the UK’s only collection devoted to hats which celebrates Stockport’s role in the hatting industry.

Historic house in Stockport with original Jacobean staircase now open as a museum.

Housed in the oldest synagogue in the city, Manchester Jewish Museum is the only museum of its type outside London.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House has been lovingly restored; you can now sit at her desk, see where Charlotte Brontë hid behind the curtains, and have tea in the downstairs café. The Pankhurst Centre is also nearby.

The Rochdale Pioneers Museum – once a shop – is widely considered to be the birthplace of the co-operative movement.

At the Greater Manchester Police Museum you can stand in the dock, see make-shift riot weapons – such as a soap in a sock – and try the feel of a wooden pillow.

Heaton Park’s 600 acres ofter a wide range of activities and stunning landscapes.