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River Wheelock
The River Wheelock is a small river in Cheshire in north west England. It drains water from the area between Sandbach and Crewe, and joins the River Dane at Middlewich (), and then the combined river flows into the River Weaver in Northwich. Alternative names for the river have were recorded in 1619 as ''Sutton Watter'', ''Sutton Brooke'', and ''Lawton Brooke''. Early recorded variations of the name Wheelock have included ''Quelok'', ''Qwelok'', ''Whelok'', ''Whelocke'', with later forms using ''Wheelock Watter'' and ''Wheelock Brooke''. The name is said to mean "winding river" and it is reported to have based on the Old Welsh word ''chwylog'', the ''chwyl'' part of which means "a turn, a rotation, a course", with an adjective suffix of ''og''. The river has given its name to the large village of Wheelock. Origin In his book ''The History of Cheshire'' (1778), Daniel King ''et al'' write: :"The Wheelock is also engendered of three small rivers, which spring not far from Mowco ...
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Woods And Stream - Geograph
Woods or The Woods may refer to: Common meanings * Woodland * Forest * Wood, solid material from trees or shrubs Places United States * Woods, Kentucky * Woods, Oregon * Woods, a municipality in Liberty County, Florida#Municipalities, Liberty County, Florida * The Woods, a neighborhood in Shenandoah, Louisiana Elsewhere * Woods, Ontario, an area of Carling, Ontario, Canada * Woods, South Australia, an area of Owen * The Woods, a locality in Sandwell, England Culture Film * The Woods (2006 film), ''The Woods'' (2006 film), a film directed by Lucky McKee * The Woods (2011 film), ''The Woods'' (2011 film), a film directed by Matthew Lessner * ''The Woods'', a false working title used for the 2016 film Blair Witch (film), ''Blair Witch'' (film) Music * The Woods (album), ''The Woods'' (album), 2005 album by Sleater-Kinney * Woods (band), American folk-rock band from New York * "Woods", a song by Fireworks from their album ''Oh, Common Life'', 2014 * "Woods", a song ...
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Mow Cop
Mow Cop is a village split between Cheshire and Staffordshire, and therefore divided between the North West and West Midlands regions of England. It is south of Manchester and north of Stoke-on-Trent, on a steep hill of the same name rising up to above sea level. The village is at the edge of the southern Pennines, with the Cheshire Plain directly to the west. For population details taken at the 2011 census, see Kidsgrove. The Cheshire section is the highest settlement within the county of Cheshire. Geography The hill on which the village lies upon is a moorland ridge composed of sandstone and Millstone Grit rising eastwards above the Cheshire Plain. It is at the western edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands, forming the upland fringe of the southern Pennines, most of which are in the Peak District National Park to the east. On a clear day, the hill offers views extending to the West Pennine Moors, Welsh mountains (including Snowdonia), Shropshire Hills and Cannock Chase. Hi ...
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Rivers Of Cheshire
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, a ...
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Warmingham
Warmingham is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the River Wheelock (at ), north of Crewe, south of Middlewich and miles west of Sandbach. The parish also includes the small settlement of Lane Ends,Genuki: Warmingham
(accessed 15 August 2007)
with a total population of just under 250. Nearby villages include Minshull Vernon, Moston and . The land is mentioned in the

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Rode Hall
Rode Hall, a Georgian country house, is the seat of the Wilbraham family, members of the landed gentry in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. The estate, with the original timber-framed manor house, was purchased by the Wilbrahams from the ancient Rode family in 1669. The medieval manor house was replaced between 1700 and 1708 by a brick-built seven-bay building; a second building, with five bays, was built in 1752; the two buildings being joined in 1800 to form the present Rode Hall. Both the exterior and interior of Rode Hall have been altered multiples times, including work by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard and Lewis Wyatt, resulting in an irregular and complex layout. The house has large collections of period paintings, furniture, and porcelain by Chelsea, Bow and Royal Worcester. The house is Grade II* listed, and is surrounded by parkland and formal gardens, which are included as Grade II on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. On the sit ...
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Church Lawton
Church Lawton is a village and located in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. Its location is such that its eastern boundary forms part of the county boundary between Cheshire and Staffordshire and, because of its close proximity to Stoke-on-Trent, the parish has a Stoke postcode. In addition to ribbon development connecting Kidsgrove (in Staffordshire) with Scholar Green (in Odd Rode parish), the parish also contains the hamlets of Lawton Gate, Lawton Heath and Lawton Heath End, and the Lawton Hall estate. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire parish was 2,201.Official 2001 Census Figures.
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Astbury, Cheshire
Astbury was one of the eight ancient parishes of the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire, England. It included two chapelries and ten townships. The chapelry of Congleton was an ancient borough and became a municipal borough in 1835. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1886 the townships and chapelries became civil parishes in their own right. Nine of the townships became part of Congleton Rural District in 1894. whereas Eaton became part of Macclesfield Rural District. At the same time, the Chapelry of Buglawton was made an Urban Sanitary District before being abolished in 1936. On its abolition were transferred to Congleton, to Eaton and to North Rode. St. Mary's at Astbury is a large 12th-century church, rebuilt on a unique trapezoidal plan in the 13th and 14th centuries. There is a 14th-century effigy of a knight in the Lady Chapel, and another, possibly earlier, canopied tomb in the churchyard. A fragment of a Saxon cross is built into the exterior wall. Ada, fourth daughter of ...
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Morton Hall
Morton Hall is a small village in the civil parish of Swinderby , in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south-west from the City of Lincoln, and is centrally located between the nearby larger villages of Swinderby, Thorpe on the Hill, and Eagle Barnsdale. Morton Hall is served by Swinderby railway station Swinderby railway station serves the villages of Swinderby, North Scarle, Eagle and Morton Hall in Lincolnshire, England. The station is south west of Lincoln Central on the Nottingham to Lincoln Central Line, owned by Network Rail and manage ..., just outside the village to the west. The separate hamlet of Morton is to the south-east. Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre is in the village. It was originally the site of an RAF base, which was converted into a prison in 1985. The facility was converted into an immigration removal centre in 2011. References External links Morton Hall village website Villages in Lincolnshi ...
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Wheelock, Cheshire
Wheelock is a large village in the civil parish of Sandbach which is in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is south of Sandbach on the road to Crewe. It was named after the River Wheelock. Overview Before its bypass route, bypass was opened, among lorry drivers Wheelock was notorious for a vicious little hill running from the Trent and Mersey Canal bridge up to a bridge crossing over the North Staffordshire Railway near the junction with Zan Drive, particularly when winter weather made the road icy. Zan Drive leads to a small industrial area named Zan Industrial Park. Wheelock is currently serviced by a number of local business. The village currently has one public house, The Cheshire Cheese, and four restaurants: a Chinese takeaway, a fish and chip shop, the Shampaan Indian restaurant (in the former Nags Head pub) and Barchetta Restaurant next to the canal. The Commercial Hotel, formerly the largest public house in t ...
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Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county town is the cathedral city of Chester, while its largest town by population is Warrington. Other towns in the county include Alsager, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Frodsham, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Middlewich, Nantwich, Neston, Northwich, Poynton, Runcorn, Sandbach, Widnes, Wilmslow, and Winsford. Cheshire is split into the administrative districts of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Halton, and Warrington. The county covers and has a population of around 1.1 million as of 2021. It is mostly rural, with a number of towns and villages supporting the agricultural and chemical industries; it is primarily known for producing chemicals, Cheshire cheese, salt, and silk. It has also had an impact on popular cult ...
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Northwich
{{Infobox UK place , static_image_name = Northwich - Town Bridge.jpg , static_image_caption = Town Bridge, the River Weaver and the spire of Holy Trinity Church , official_name = Northwich , country = England , region = North West England , population = 50,531 , population_ref = ( 2021){{NOMIS2021 , id=E35001305 Overview Profile: Northwich Town Council"; downloaded fro.gov.uk/find_out_more/datasets_and_statistics/statistics/census_2011/population_profiles Cheshire West and Chester: Population Profiles 16 May 2019 , os_grid_reference = SJ651733 , coordinates = {{coord, 53.259, -2.518, display=inline,title , post_town = NORTHWICH , postcode_area = CW , postcode_district = CW8,CW9 , dial_code = 01606 , constituency_westminster = Weaver Vale , constituency_westminster1 = Tatton , civil_ ...
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River Weaver
The River Weaver is a river, navigable in its lower reaches, running in a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, northern England. Improvements to the river to make it navigable were authorised in 1720 and the work, which included eleven locks, was completed in 1732. An unusual clause in the enabling Act of Parliament stipulated that profits should be given to the County of Cheshire for the improvement of roads and bridges, but the navigation was not initially profitable, and it was 1775 before the first payments were made. Trade continued to rise, and by 1845, over £500,000 had been given to the county. The major trade was salt. The arrival of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Anderton in 1773 was detrimental to the salt trade at first, but ultimately beneficial, as salt was tipped down chutes from the canal into barges on the river navigation. Access to the river was improved in 1810 by the Weston Canal, which provided a link to Weston Point, where boats could reac ...
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