Image:Wilmslow - Cheshire dot.png Wilmslow is a town in Cheshire, England, situated to the south of Manchester between Alderley Edge and Handforth. It is well known, like Alderley Edge, for having Manchester United and Manchester City footballers, plus cast members of the soap opera Coronation Street as residents. A more affluent area of the country, it is noteworthy that the local Aston Martin dealer's sales account for more than one-fifth of the UK sales of £100,000-plus Astons. Wilmslow is increasingly viewed as a desirable area in which to live, and is part of the so-called "Golden Triangle" i ...

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The town centre is focussed upon Bank Square, Grove Street and Water Lane. Although Bank Square has traditionally provided the location for many of the town's banks, the name in fact originates from the bank, or slope, leading down to the Carrs recreational fields and up towards the train station. The River Bollin flows through the Carrs and once provided the power source for nearby Quarry Bank Mill, now a National Trust site. Before the railway came, Wilms ...

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Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England. Its county town is the city of Chester. It borders the ceremonial counties of Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire (with Stoke-on-Trent), and Shropshire. It also borders the current unitary authorities of Flintshire and Wrexham in Wales. Some northern parts of the county are effectively suburbs of Manchester or Liverpool, and many of those who work in these cities commute from other parts of the county.

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Doves are a British indie rock band from Manchester, England. The band is known for its large, epic sound, and has been compared with contemporaries such as Radiohead as well as classic Manchester bands such as The Stone Roses, New Order and The Smiths and experimental acts such as Talk Talk and Sigur Ros. The three members of Doves are brothers Jez Williams (guitar) and Andy Williams (drums and occasional vocals), and Jimi Goodwin (vocals, bass, guitar and occasionally drums), who met at school in Wilmslow when they were 15. T ...

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There are several events in the town each year including the annual the Knutsford Royal May Day festival, where the town comes to a standstill as hundreds of people parade through the streets, which is followed by the crowning of the May Queen. There is also a fun fair. There are many events at Tatton Park varying from the Royal Horticulture Show to the American Car show. ...

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Manchester - Nightlife. Like any large city there has always been a thriving nightclub culture here but Manchesters place in the history of modern clubbing surpasses every other city in the UK with the possible exception of London UK broadcaster Jimmy Savile is credited as being the first modern DJ by using twin turntables for continuous play after got two domestic record decks welded together. The first place he used this device to play to the public in 1946 was a nightclub called The Ritz on Whitworth St ...

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Greater Manchester is divided into ten metropolitan boroughs, these are: Bolton, Bury, the City of Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, the City of Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. For the first twelve years after the county was created in 1974, the county had a two-tier system of local government, and the boroughs shared power with the Greater Manchester County Council. However in 1986, along with five other metropolitan county councils and the Greater London Council, the Greater Manchester County Council was abolished, and most of its powers were devolved to th ...

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His show Kilroy started on 24 November 1986 as Day To Day and ran up until 2004, when the programme was cancelled by the BBC after an article entitled 'We owe Arabs nothing' by Kilroy-Silk[2] was published in the Sunday Express on 4 January. The article had originally been published in April 2003 by the same paper and 'republished in error' according to Kilroy-Silk [3], although during its first incarnation the article failed to attract the same furore from the national press or provoke any (ostensible) disciplinary acti ...

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Robert Kilroy-Silk, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Education and early political career, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Kilroy and 'anti-Arab' controversy, Robert Kilroy-Silk - UK Independence Party political career, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Involvement in the European elections, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Leadership ambitions, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Leaving the party, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Veritas political career, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Independent MEP, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Publicity stunts, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Personal life

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The Act specified the composition and names of the English and Welsh counties, and the composition of the metropolitan and Welsh districts. It did not specify any names of districts, nor indeed the borders of the non-metropolitan districts — these were specified by Statutory Instrument after the passing of the Act (specifically by the The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972, SI 1972/2038). In England there were 46 counties and 296 districts, in Wales there were 8 and 37. Six of the English counties were design ...

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Local Government Act 1972, Local Government Act 1972 - Background, Local Government Act 1972 - The Act, Local Government Act 1972 - The new local government areas, Local Government Act 1972 - England, Local Government Act 1972 - Wales, Local Government Act 1972 - Map, Local Government Act 1972 - Division of functions, Local Government Act 1972 - Reaction and aftermath

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These radials are supplemented by two-digit codes which are routes that are slightly less important (but may still be classified as trunk routes). These routes are not all centred on London, but as far as possible follow the general principle that their number locates them radially clockwise from the associated single digit route. For example, the A10 (London to King's Lynn) is the first main route clockwise from the A1, the A11 is the next, and so on: A10 London to King's Lynn A11 London to Norwich A12 London ...

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Great Britain road numbering scheme, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Important radial roads in England and Wales, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Important radial roads in Scotland, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Zoning system, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Two-digit A roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Other A roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Motorway sections of A roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - B roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - C D and U roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Motorways, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Fictional roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Ancient roads

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The constituency is in Cheshire in the north-west of England. It covers the western part of the Borough of Macclesfield, including the towns of Knutsford and Wilmslow, and a number of villages such as Alderley Edge, Chelford, Handforth and Mobberley. It also covers the north-east part of the Vale Royal district, including some of the outskirts of Northwich. Its name comes from Tatton Park, a stately h ...

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Manchester is situated in a bowl-shaped land area, bordered to the north and east by the Pennine moors and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. The city centre is located on the River Irwell, near the confluence of two other rivers, the River Medlock and the River Irk. The River Mersey also flows through the south of the city. Much of the inner city is flat, offering extensive views of the moors from the floors of many tall buildings. It has some geographic features which were influential in its early development as an industrial city. These are its climate, its proximity to a sea port at Liverpool, the availabilty of wa ...

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Some convicts are detained in secure mental hospitals. These are run by the National Health Service rather than the prison service. Ashworth Hospital Broadmoor Hospital Rampton Secure Hospital, Retford, Nottinghamshire A number of other mental hospitals have secure units. ...

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Cheshire in the Domesday Book was recorded as a much larger county than it is today. Its northern border was the River Ribble, and it was recorded with eighteen hundreds, six of which were north of the River Mersey. In 1182 the land north of the Mersey became administered as part of the new county of Lancashire instead. Later, the hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan became part of Wales. Over the years the ten hundreds consolid ...

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Manchester was an unimportant market town during the Middle Ages, it was originally part of the Hundred of Salford. In 1223 Manchester gained the right to hold an annual fair. In the 14th Century Manchester became home to a community of Flemish weavers, who settled in the town to produce wool and linen, thus beginning the tradition of cloth manufacture. ...

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History of Manchester, History of Manchester - Early settlements: prehistoric and Roman, History of Manchester - Medieval growth, History of Manchester - Growth of the textile trade, History of Manchester - The Industrial Revolution, History of Manchester - Reform, History of Manchester - Industrial and cultural growth, History of Manchester - Further expansion, History of Manchester - Twentieth century reds and blues, History of Manchester - Fin de siecle, History of Manchester - Greater Manchester, History of Manchester - Textiles, History of Manchester - Railway history, History of Manchester - Universities, History of Manchester - Manchester's famous scientists, History of Manchester - Manchester's famous engineers, History of Manchester - Bibliography

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During the English Civil War, Prince Rupert stationed himself at what is now the library on Barlow Moor Road. In the Jacobite march south from Manchester to Derby in 1745 it is likely that it crossed the old ford of the River Mersey at Didsbury. During the Victorian expansion of Manchester, Didsbury developed as a prosperous settlement and continues so to this day. The houses along Palatine Road, previously occupied by prosperous textile merchants and the like, but now converted in many cases to multiple occupation or ...

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The line was built in parts between the 1830s and the 1860s, with the first parts being the Grand Junction Railway (Warrington - Birmingham) and the London and Birmingham Railway, both completed in the 1830s. Because of the need to appease the concerns and anger of landowners along the route, very often the line was built so that it dodged huge swathes of farmland, resulting in many curves and bends. The WCML also passes through some of the more hilly areas of the British mainland, such as the Trent Valley, the mountains of Cumbria an ...

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West Coast Main Line, West Coast Main Line - History, West Coast Main Line - The route in detail, West Coast Main Line - London-Rugby, West Coast Main Line - Northampton Loop, West Coast Main Line - Trent Valley Line, West Coast Main Line - Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford, West Coast Main Line - Stafford-Stoke-Manchester, West Coast Main Line - Stafford-Crewe, West Coast Main Line - Crewe-Liverpool, West Coast Main Line - Crewe-Holyhead North Wales Coast Line, West Coast Main Line - Crewe-Manchester-Preston, West Coast Main Line - Crewe-Scotland

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Before 1974 the area of Greater Manchester was split between Cheshire and Lancashire with numerous parts being independent county boroughs. The area was informally known as "SELNEC", for "South East Lancashire North East Cheshire". Also small parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire (around Saddleworth) and Derbyshire were covered. SELNEC had been proposed by the Redcliffe-Maud Report of 1969 as a "metropolitan area". This had roughly the same northern boundary as today's Greater Manchester, but covered much more territory in north-east Cheshire – including Maccles ...

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History of Manchester, History of Manchester - Early settlements: prehistoric and Roman, History of Manchester - Medieval growth, History of Manchester - Growth of the textile trade, History of Manchester - The Industrial Revolution, History of Manchester - Reform, History of Manchester - Industrial and cultural growth, History of Manchester - Further expansion, History of Manchester - Twentieth century reds and blues, History of Manchester - Fin de siecle, History of Manchester - Greater Manchester, History of Manchester - Textiles, History of Manchester - Railway history, History of Manchester - Universities, History of Manchester - Manchester's famous scientists, History of Manchester - Manchester's famous engineers, History of Manchester - Bibliography

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During the 1980s, with the demise of many traditional industries under the radical economic restructuring often known as Thatcherism, the city and region experienced some decline. Revival started towards the end of the decade, catalysed, not only by a wider growing prosperity in the UK, but by a creative music industry. New institutions such as Factory Records and Fac 51 Hacienda earned the city the sobriquet Madchester. On 15 June 1996 Manchester was struck by one of the largest IRA bombs ever detonated in Great Britain ...

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In the early 20th century Manchester's economy diversified into engineering chemical and electrical industries. The stimulus of the Ship Canal saw the establishment of Trafford Park, the world's first industrial park, in 1910 and the arrival of the Ford Motor Company and Westinghouse Electric Corporation from the USA. The influence is still visible in Westinghouse Road and the grid layout of numbered streets and avenues. In the Second World War Manchester played a key role as an industrial manufacturing city, including the Avro aircraft factory. As a consequence of its war effor ...

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History of Manchester, History of Manchester - Early settlements: prehistoric and Roman, History of Manchester - Medieval growth, History of Manchester - Growth of the textile trade, History of Manchester - The Industrial Revolution, History of Manchester - Reform, History of Manchester - Industrial and cultural growth, History of Manchester - Further expansion, History of Manchester - Twentieth century reds and blues, History of Manchester - Fin de siecle, History of Manchester - Greater Manchester, History of Manchester - Textiles, History of Manchester - Railway history, History of Manchester - Universities, History of Manchester - Manchester's famous scientists, History of Manchester - Manchester's famous engineers, History of Manchester - Bibliography

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