Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west,Greater Manchester to the north-east,Derbyshire to the east,Staffordshire to the south-east,and Shropshire to the south;to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham,and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary. Warrington is the largest settlement,and the city of Chester is the county town.
Knutsford is a market town in Cheshire,England;it is located 14 miles (23 km) south-west of Manchester,9 miles (14 km) north-west of Macclesfield and 12+1⁄2 miles (20 km) south-east of Warrington. The population at the 2011 Census was 13,191.
Northwich is a market and port town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester in the ceremonial county of Cheshire,England. It lies in the heart of the Cheshire Plain,at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane. The town is about 18 miles (29 km) east of Chester,15 miles (24 km) south of Warrington,and 19 miles (31 km) south of Manchester.
Vale Royal was,from 1974 to 2009,a local government district with borough status in Cheshire,England. It contained the towns of Northwich,Winsford and Frodsham.
Middlewich is a town in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire,England. It is located 19.2 miles (30.9 km) east of Chester,2.9 miles (4.7 km) east of Winsford,5.3 miles (8.5 km) south-east of Northwich and 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north-west of Sandbach. The population at the 2011 Census was 13,595. Middlewich,together with Northwich and Winsford,forms part of the Central Cheshire conurbation,with an estimated 2023 population of 130,000.
David George Hanson,Baron Hanson of Flint,is a British Labour Party politician who has served as a minister of state in the Home Office since July 2024. He previously served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Delyn from 1992 to 2019. He held several ministerial offices in the Blair and Brown governments,serving in the Home Office,the Ministry of Justice,the Wales Office,the Northern Ireland Office and the Whips' Office. Hanson sat on Ed Miliband's opposition front bench as a shadow treasury minister,and later the shadow immigration minister.
Winsford is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire,England,on the River Weaver south of Northwich and west of Middlewich. It grew around the salt mining industry after the river was canalised in the 18th century,allowing freight to be conveyed northwards to the Port of Runcorn on the River Mersey. The town of Winsford has an estimated population of 35,500 in 2024.
Eddisbury was a constituency in Cheshire last represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Edward Timpson,a Conservative who left office at the dissolution of parliament in advance of the 2024 United Kingdom general election,at which this former constituency was replaced.
Tatton is a constituency in Cheshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Esther McVey,a Conservative.
Weaver Vale was a constituency in Cheshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
Congleton Town Football Club is an association football club based in Congleton,Cheshire,England. They currently play in the Northern Premier League Division One West and are full members of the Cheshire County Football Association. The club have played in a number of regional leagues in the Cheshire area.
The Mid-Cheshire line is a railway line in the north-west of England that runs from Chester to Edgeley Junction,Stockport;it connects Chester with Manchester Piccadilly,via Knutsford. After Chester Northgate closed in 1969,the section between Mickle Trafford Junction and Chester was used for freight trains only until it closed in 1992;from Mickle Trafford,passenger trains use the Chester–Warrington line to Chester General instead. The route taken by passenger trains has changed over the years and now differs considerably from the original. Between 2001 and 2014,passenger journeys on the line increased to over 1.7 million per year. A near doubling of the passenger service was expected to occur from December 2018,however this did not materialise.
East Cheshire was a parliamentary constituency which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections were held using the bloc vote system.
Mid Cheshire is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. It is represented by Andrew Cooper of the Labour Party.
West Cheshire is a former parliamentary constituency,which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Cheshire West and Chester is a local government district with borough status in Cheshire,England. It was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 local government changes,by virtue of an order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007. It superseded the boroughs of Ellesmere Port and Neston,Vale Royal and the City of Chester;its council is a unitary authority,having also assumed the functions and responsibilities of the former Cheshire County Council within its area. The remainder of ceremonial Cheshire is composed of Cheshire East,Halton and Warrington. Cheshire West and Chester has three key urban areas:Chester,Ellesmere Port and Northwich/Winsford.
Northwich Victoria Football Club are a semi-professional football club based in Northwich,Cheshire,which compete in the Midland League Premier Division. They play home games at Barton Stadium,in a groundshare agreement with nearby rivals Winsford United. They had played at the same Drill Field ground between 1875 and 2002,which was at the time of its demolition was believed to be the oldest ground in the world on which football had been continuously played. They played at the short-lived Victoria Stadium between 2005 and 2011,and have since been forced to share grounds with nearby clubs.
Paul J. Franklin is an English visual effects supervisor who has worked with visual effects since the 1990s. Franklin won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for Inception (2010),and won a second Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Interstellar (2014). He shared the wins with Andrew Lockley,Peter Bebb,and Chris Corbould. Franklin has also been nominated for an Academy Award for The Dark Knight (2008). He was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Batman Begins,The Dark Knight (2008),and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
The 2019 Cheshire West and Chester Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Cheshire West and Chester Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Five fewer seats were contested because of boundary changes. No party gained overall control. The Labour Party gained a seat but lost control of the council;the Conservatives lost 8 seats,while the Independents gained 4,the Liberal Democrats gained 2,and the Green Party gained one.
Samantha Kate Dixon is a British politician who serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chester North and Neston. She sat for City of Chester from 2022 until the seat's abolition in 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she was Leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council from 2015 to 2019.
