Wilmslow
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 20 ′ N , 2 ° 14 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 24,497 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | WILMSLOW | ||
| prefix | 01625 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Ceremonial county | Cheshire | ||
| Unitary authority | Cheshire East | ||
| British Parliament | Tatton | ||
Wilmslow is a town in Cheshire East , England with a population of 24,497 (as of 2011). It is considered to be wealthy and a sought-after place to live and is (with Alderley Edge and Prestbury ) regarded as a corner of the "Golden Triangle" of Cheshire.
geography
Wilmslow is about 18 km from the center of Manchester and 11 km from Macclesfield on the River Bollin, into which the River Dean flows northwest of the city. The Lindow Moss raised bog is about 2 km west of the city center.
history
The place name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Wīghelmes hlāw ("hill of a wighelm"). The area was already settled in the Iron Age. Bog bodies from this period have been found in nearby Lindow Moss, including the Lindow man .
At the site of a medieval predecessor building dating back to 1300, of which nor the crypt has been preserved, now called was 1517-1537 Monument Grade I recognized St Bartholomew's Church was built.
Wilmslow was one of the eight ancient parishes in the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire. For a long time it was only a small, agricultural place, even if Samuel Greg the Elder was already in 1784. In the nearby Styal on the Bollin river, a cotton spinning mill powered by water wheels was built , which is now a Grade II * listed Quarry Bank Mill. In 1834, under the New Poor Law, the districts of the previous municipality of Wilmslow became independent Civil parishes .
Since the railroad was built in 1842, Wilmslow has become a sought-after residential town, especially for affluent business people from north-west England. In 1878 the more densely populated parts of Bollinfee, Fulshaw and Pownall Fee became the Wilmslow Local Board area , which became an urban district in 1895 .
Since 1873 there has also been a Catholic church with the Church of Sacred Heart & St Teresa's , which was relocated to a new building in the city center from 1911 to 1914.
In 1936 a small part of the urban area was reclassified to Alderley Edge, but at the same time parts of Chorley , Bollinfee, Handforth and Styal were incorporated. In 1951 Wilmslow received its own coat of arms .
From 1938 to 1962 there was a Royal Air Force training base in Wilmslow , which was almost completely demolished after its closure.
In 1997 a bomb attack was carried out at the train station, which caused property damage to the railway facilities.
traffic
Wilmslow is on the Crewe to Manchester railway line , which splits here into two branches via Stockport and Heald Green . The latter also has connections to Manchester Airport . In addition to Crewe, there are long-distance connections to Shrewsbury , Cardiff and London Euston . There are bus connections to Knutsford and Altrincham , Macclesfield, Manchester, Stockport and Manchester Airport.
The city is on the A34 between Salford and Solihull and the A538 between Macclesfield and Altrincham , which intersect in the urban area.
economy
Wilmslow is the founding place and headquarters of the clothing and sporting goods manufacturer Umbro , also an important location for the insurance company Royal London and the seat of the British data protection authority , the Information Commissioner 's Office .
Personalities
- Alan Turing (1912-1954), the Second World War instrumental in deciphering the with the cipher machine " Enigma involved encrypted" German messages, lived in Wilmslow and died there
Further information
- Michael Hilton: The Wilmslow website . Retrieved March 8, 2016. Private project with numerous photographs and reminiscences
- Welcome to Wilmslow . Whatsin-Wilmslow. Accessed March 8, 2016. Portal for visitors
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 Census Data for England and Wales on Nomis . Office for National Statistics.
- ↑ Malcolm McClean: To the edge: entrepreneurial secrets from Britain's richest square mile 2007, ISBN 978-1-84112-782-8 .
- ^ Church of St Bartholomews . Historic England. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ↑ Quarry Bank Mill . Historic England. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^ Wilmslow Urban District Council . The National Archives. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ^ Sacred Heart & St Teresa's Church Wilmslow - History .
- ^ Administrative Unit Wilmslow CP / AP / CP . A vision of Britain through time. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ↑ CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-CHESHIRE (OBSOLETE) . In: civicheraldry.co.uk .
- ↑ James J. Halley: The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force 1918-1988 . Air Britain Historians Ltd, Tonbridge 1988, ISBN 978-0-85130-164-8 .
- ↑ L. Jury: IRA back in fray with trackside explosions . In: Independent , March 27, 1997.
- ^ Alan Turing blue plaque in Wilmslow at blueplaqueplaces.co.uk, accessed April 24, 2018