Crewe /kruː/ is a railway town and civil parish within the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The area has a population of roughly 84,000. Crewe is perhaps best known as a large railway junction and home to Crewe Works, for many years a major railway engineering facility for manufacturing and overhauling locomotives, but now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002 it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car production. The Pyms Lane factory on the west of the town now produces Bentley motor cars exclusively.
Population: 70,455
Latitude: 53° 05' 52.33" N
Longitude: -2° 26' 29.80" W
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Royal Air Force Cranage or more simply RAF Cranage is a former Royal Air Force station operated during the Second World War.
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