Lower Peover

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Lower Peover
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St. Oswald's Church, Lower Peover
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Lower Peover
Location within Cheshire
OS grid reference SJ743741
Civil parish
  • Nether Peover
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town KNUTSFORD
Postcode district WA16
Dialling code 01565
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53°15′58″N2°22′59″W / 53.266°N 2.383°W / 53.266; -2.383 Coordinates: 53°15′58″N2°22′59″W / 53.266°N 2.383°W / 53.266; -2.383

Lower Peover is a village in the civil parish of Nether Peover [1] in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, approximately 6 miles east of Northwich and 4 miles south of Knutsford. The boundary of the civil parish deviates slightly to include Lower Peover in Nether Peover and not the adjacent civil parish of Peover Inferior. [1] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 415. [2]

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Lower Peover was also where George S. Patton held meetings with the senior members of the British war cabinet where they discussed plans about many military operations, most notably D-day.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Ordnance Survey (2004). SJ 742 741 (British national grid reference system)
  2. "Nether Peover parish population 2011" . Retrieved 30 May 2015.

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