History of Cheshire
The history of Cheshire can be traced back to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP. Primitive tools that date to that period have been found.
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Satellite map of Crewe
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
Articles of interest in Crewe
375 Articles of interest near Crewe, United Kingdom
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The Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is a former government-owned nuclear bunker located at Hack Green, Cheshire, England.
Harecastle Tunnel
Harecastle Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Kidsgrove in Staffordshire. It is made up of two separate, parallel, tunnels described as Brindley (2,880 yards or 2,633 metres) and the later Telford (2,926 yards or 2,675 metres)…
Nantwich Town F.C.
Nantwich Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. The club was founded in 1884 and is nicknamed The Dabbers.
Gresty Road
Gresty Road (officially the Alexandra Stadium) is a football stadium in Crewe, England.
Hartford, Cheshire
Hartford is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies at the intersection of the A559 road and the West Coast Main Line (between Liverpool and Crewe) and …
List of Football League Championship stadiums
Since the inception of the Football League Championship, England's current second tier, in 2004, there have been 49 stadiums used in the League. Following the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, the Taylor Report recommended the abolition of standing ter…
River Dane
The River Dane flows through Cheshire in the northwest England.
Golden Torch
The Golden Torch, more commonly known as The Torch, was a mod nightclub in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Located on Hose Street, behind the Sneyd Arms Hotel on Tower Square, the club was opened on 30 January 1965 by headliners Billy J. Kramer a…
Crewe Heritage Centre
Crewe Heritage Centre, is a railway museum, located in Crewe, England. It is managed by the Crewe Heritage Trust; the museum is located between Crewe railway station and Crewe town centre.
Market Drayton Town F.C.
Market Drayton Town F.C. is a football club based in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England.
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England.
Cuckooland Museum
The Cuckooland Museum, previously known as the Cuckoo Clock Museum, is a museum that exhibits mainly cuckoo clocks, located in Tabley, Cheshire, England.
Combermere Abbey
Combermere Abbey is a former monastery, later a country house, in Combermere Park, between Nantwich and Whitchurch in Cheshire, England, near the border with Shropshire. Initially Savigniac and later Cistercian, the abbey was founded in the 1130s by…
Battle of Nantwich
The Battle of Nantwich was fought during the First English Civil War, between the Parliamentarians and Royalists, northwest of the town of Nantwich in Cheshire on 25 January 1644. The Royalists under Lord Byron were besieging Nantwich, and Sir Thoma…
ROF Radway Green
The former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), Radway Green, now part of BAE Systems Global Combat Systems, manufactures small arms ammunition for the British armed forces.
Mow Cop Castle
Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop in the civil parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England.
Waddington, Lincolnshire
Waddington is a large rural commuter village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) south of Lincoln on the A607 Grantham Road. The village is known for its association with RA…