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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.
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But by the 1930s the natural process of silting had begun to see the waters retreat. Now, the sea only ever returns during the highest tides of the year.
On those occasions, few and far between, the sea can once again cover the marshes and lap back to the sea wall.
Yet, even without a traditional seaside or beach, there's still much to draw the crowds to this unique spot. It's Cheshire's only coastal village, and while the sea has retreated, the stunning views across the estuary to Wales are just as clear.
The sea waters have left in their wake a salt marsh - in the summer months it is awash with greenery and a thriving habitat for all sorts of wildlife. Indeed the array of birds here make it a hotspot for twitchers.
On our visit we spotted grey herons, egrits, godwits and even a pheasant dashing around the marshes.
There is also still the sea wall - where kids love to walk along its stretch from South Parade outside the Old Quay pub, right down to the Parade's north
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