Coleen and Wayne Rooney have turned their backs on glamorous five-star jet-setting to take their four sons on a bargain narrowboat holiday.
The former England captain, his wife and their children Kai, 11, Cass, three, Klay, eight, and Kit, five, headed to Staffordshire to enjoy trip along the Shropshire Union Canal.
The family moored outside the Hartley Arms in Wheaton Aston, before travelling by narrowboat to the Bridge Inn in Brewood.
The couple, both 35, have been known to enjoy low-cost camping holidays and Butlins stays with their children - alongside their five-star Barbados summer trips.
The Rooneys were nearly too late for their lunch in Brewood as their journey along the canal took longer than expected.
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MIDDLEWICH is an ancient market town situated at the confluence of the rivers Wheelock, Croco and Dane. In the Domesday Book, it was called Mildestvich. It is one of the Wiches or Wyches joining Northwich and Nantwich from which salt has been drawn for centuries; in fact, it is between the two other Wiches, hence the name. The Romans were the first to discover the brine that flowed freely here and founded the town calling it Salinae after the salt. From the traces of a Roman road in the vicinity, there is little doubt that it was a Roman station, and the remains of an entrenchment camp were discovered at Kinderton.
Cheshire Life
Nantwich town centre by John Cocks
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The market town of Nantwich is a great starting point to explore the parts of South Cheshire that are often overlooked by walkers.
Shopshire Union Canal by Howard Bradbury
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Nantwich, River Weaver and Shropshire Union canal
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Following the Nantwich Riverside Loop, you will get a walk beside the river, a walk beside the canal, a stroll across fields with a view over the Cheshire Plain and an historic town with an embarrassment of architectural riches.