Seagulls flock overhead, as families walk with ice cream cones and freshly-fried fish and chips to find a place to sit on the sea wall. There's a bank of attractive black and white houses lining the historic Parade, many now filled with restaurants, coffee bars and ice cream parlours.
The pretty village of Parkgate in Cheshire has all the sights, smells and sounds of a seaside resort - yet there is one big thing missing here. And that's the sea.
In Victorian times Parkgate was a fashionable seaside resort, and along the Parade grew the array of attractive properties looking out across the Dee Estuary. Visitors have long admired the stunning views right across to the hills of North Wales.
