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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Alan Turing, the driving force behind the Colossus machine for cracking the German Enigma cypher, is perhaps Wilmslow's most notable resident. Turing committed suicide in his Wilmslow home in June 1954 by eating a cyanide-laced apple. George Mallory, the mountaineer who died on Everest in 1924, came from nearby Mobberley. Terry Waite, the humanitarian, author and hostage negotiator, came from nearby Styal. Wilmslow has featured in the novels of the writer Alan Garner, with the Black Lake (Lindow) apparently housing a witch. Gar ...

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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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Wilmslow was in the international media in March 1997, when an IRA bomb exploded at the train station. Nobody was hurt. In the general election of the same year, the parliamentary constituency of Tatton, in which Wilmslow falls, made headlines as part of the "sleaze" accusations levelled against the then Conservative Government. Tatton MP, Neil Hamilton, was accused of accepting cash for tabling Parliamentary questions, and subsequently defeated in the ele ...

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