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Chester
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Ellesmere Port
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Ellesmere Port is an industrial town in Cheshire, overlooking the Mersey Estuary on the Wirral Peninsula. The town is dominated by a large oil refinery and a chemical works, and also a large car factory.
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Nantwich
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Nantwich is a small market town on the Cheshire Plain, on the banks of the River Weaver. The town’s origins date from the Roman era, when it became a major centre for the production of salt (the suffix ‘-wich’ denotes a town close to brine springs.
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Crewe
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Crewe is a medium-sized town in South Cheshire, and is regarded as one of England’s great railway towns, being situated close to a major rail intersection and, for decades, having its own locomotive works. The town was also the site of the Rolls-Royce car factory, but this is sadly no more.
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Congleton
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Congleton is a small town in Cheshire, and is situated on the banks of the River Dane. On the outskirts of the town lies a rocky outcrop known as ‘The Cloud’, from which views of the nearby Cheshire Plain may be obtained.
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Macclesfield
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Macclesfield is a medium-sized market town in the south east of Cheshire, on the River Bollin and the Macclesfield Canal, and close to the Peak District National Park. One of the UK’s most affluent towns, Macclesfield also has a proud industrial heritage, with silk mills producing much of the town’s wealth in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
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Northwich
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Another of Cheshire’s great salt producing towns, hence the ‘-wich’ suffix to its name, Northwich is a medium-sized market town on the Rivers Dane and Weaver in the north of the county. Today it is one of Cheshire’s most rapidly growing towns, and has become something of a dormitory for workers in nearby Manchester.
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Wilmslow
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Wilmslow is a small but exceptionally affluent town in the north of Cheshire; its exclusive air and ease of access to Manchester city centre has made it popular with rich businessmen and footballers, although it first became popular as a place for well off families from Manchester in the 19th Century.
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Warrington
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Warrington is the largest town in Cheshire, although before 1974 it was historically part of Lancashire, and is now a unitary authority and part of Cheshire for ceremonial purposes only. Designated a New Town in 1968, Warrington is in an industrial area, with a marked shift towards the High-Tech sectors in recent years.
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