It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture.

[13] Beam Street was so renamed to reflect the fact that timber (including wood from Delamere Forest) to rebuild the town was transported along it.

A plaque marking the 400th anniversary of the fire and of Nantwich's rebuilding was unveiled by the Duke of Gloucester on 20 September 1984.

An example of the problem was Stephen Jerome, a puritanical preacher, who in 1625 nonetheless tried to rape one of his maidservants, Margaret Knowsley.

[17][18][19] Nikolaus Pevsner considered the salt-industry decline to have been critical in preserving the town's historic buildings.

The town's location on the London–Chester road meant that Nantwich began to serve the needs of travellers in medieval times.

[8][20] This trade declined in the 19th century with the opening of Telford's road from London to Holyhead, which offered a faster route to Wales, and later with the Grand Junction Railway, which bypassed the town.

[18] The presence of a watermill south of Nantwich Bridge was noted in 1228[21] and again about 1363,[22] through the cutting of a mill race or leat and creation of an upstream weir.

[31] The hotel was originally a mansion, Shrewbridge Hall,[22] built for Michael Bott (owner of Nantwich Mill) in 1828.

[33][34] The hotel's grounds included gardens, tennis courts, a nine-hole golf course and a bowling green.

Most are within the 38 hectares (94 acres) of conservation area, which broadly follows the bounds of the late medieval and early post-medieval town.

[41] Particularly fine timber-framed buildings from the town's rebuilding include 46 High Street and the Grade I-listed Crown coaching inn.

The most recent listed building is 1–5 Pillory Street, a curved corner block in 17th-century French style, which dates from 1911.

Most of the town's listed buildings were originally residential, but churches, chapels, public houses, schools, banks, almshouses and workhouses are represented.

Unusual listed structures include a mounting block, twelve cast-iron bollards, a stone gateway, two garden walls and a summerhouse.

[45] The name of Jan Palach Avenue in the south of the town commemorates the self-immolation of a student in Czechoslovakia in 1969.

[46] The tower of St Mary's Church was the origin (meridian) of the 6-inch and 1:2500 Ordnance Survey maps of Cheshire.

For the London 2012 Olympic Games, Malbank School and Sixth Form College was nominated to represent the North West.

Acton Nomads RFC, founded in 2009, won the 2010 RFU Presidents XV "This is Rugby" Award;[49][50] it operates two senior sides.

The town's cricket club in Whitehouse Lane won the ECB-accredited Cheshire County Premier League title in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2018.

Midway through the 2017 season, bowler Jimmy Warrington became the first player in the history of the Cheshire County Premier League to take 500 wickets.

The inNantwich website gives Nantwich information, including shops, firms, schools, wifi spots, car parking and toilets.

Until 2019, the annual International Cheese Awards were held in July each year during Nantwich Show, at the Dorfold Hall estate.

Re-established as a free-entry festival in 2010, it attracts numerous artisan producers from the local area and further afield, and offers chef demonstrations, family activities and entertainment.