The North West of England is a great place to live. The northern half is all hills and lakes with attractive towns like Ambleside and Keswick. Even the roads are great, the M6 winds through the hills at Tebay and climbs over Shap, there aren’t many better Motorway routes.
Rydal Water near Ambleside
The central area is mellow hills and farmland with small cities like Lancaster and Preston, resorts like Blackpool, Southport and Morecambe on a flat coastal area of rich soil. As well as interesting small places such as Arnside with its long viaduct and tidal bore coming in from Morecambe Bay. Inland is the Forest of Bowland which is an area of hills, without trees, and pleasant market towns and villages. Clitheroe and Whalley are two interesting towns, known for up-market wine merchants and up-market clothes stores respectively as well as a castle and an abbey, both ruined. Blackburn, Burnley and Wigan are also in this area and both have interesting features including the Leeds Liverpool Canal and Cotton Mill museums.
To the south is Manchester and Liverpool and the county of Cheshire. Two great cities and a county full of interesting country houses and National Trust houses plus Jodrell Bank radio telescope. There is also the area around Ramsbottom which has the interesting East Lancs Railway. Liverpool has greatly upped its tourist attractiveness in the last few years.
The North West of England, which is about 120 miles long, 30 miles wide holds around 7 million people, mainly in the southern half and a wide range of things to see from city, hill, lake and sea.