VISITORS can find toilets, a chemist and a bank on the map outside Knutsford's Tourist Information Centre.

But the town's most popular attraction is missing.

Nowhere on the map is a reference to Tatton Park, the grand English mansion that attracts about 800,000 visitors a year.

Yesterday the estate's marketing department said they would speak to Macclesfield Borough Council about improving the information available.

"I will certainly have a chat to see if there's any way we can improve it," a spokesman said.

Tatton Park attracts visitors from across the country to its 19th century mansion and gardens, which have been rated as some of the best in Europe.

The park also draws more than 100,000 to the annual RHS flower show, which is being compared to the best floral events in the country.

Japanese gardeners have visited the site to swap tips with staff and American councillors recently flew to England to see the 1,000-acre estate.

But the map outside the tourist information centre in Toft Road, Knutsford fails to give directions to the site's entrance in King Street.

A Tatton Park spokesman said it was a shame that the system used by the borough council failed to point out the town's most popular attraction.

"I'll have to come down and have a look at it," he said.

"It could just be an oversight." But Macclesfield said that their information boards do not cover details about local amenities that are outside town centres. They said the 18th century Quarry Bank Mill in Wilmslow and Gawsworth Hall in Macclesfield did not feature on those towns' tourist information boards.

"It won't show those things because it's a town centre map," said a spokesman.

Leaflets about Tatton Park are however available from inside tourist information office.

"The ladies in there always do a great job promoting us," said the Tatton Park spokesman.

But at least Tatton is still in the same place.

In April Lonely Planet's guide to the North West relocated Lord Egerton's former estate in Leyland near Chorley in Lancashire.