Warrington

Warrington is a English Ville, large a administrative Center independent (called Municipal council of Warrington or in English “Warrington Borough Council” ), located in the North-West of the England.

The city, traditionally in the Lancashire, was attached to the Comté of Cheshire in 1974. Since April 1st 1998, it is a independent county administrative. With the last census (2001), the population of the urban surface of Warrington was of 191 084 inhabitants.

It is the principal city between Manchester and Liverpool, and the second in surface.

The limits of the city are:

the powerplant Fiddlers Ferry
the statue of Alice (the author, Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), is originating in Commerates, in the close Daresbury), the statue east locates in the shopping mall “Places of Gold” or in English “Golden delicious Public garden Shopping Centers”
the old door of the market.

History of the city

Old story

During the Roman period , Warrington was a small industrial center, founded with the confluence of the the Mersey, like stage for the Roman soldiers on the road of Deva (modern Chester). Some remainders testify some with Wilderspool.

With the the Middle Ages, Warrington had importance as a point of passage of the the Mersey, and was a fulcrum in the English civil war. The Armed S with Oliver Cromwell and the Duke of Derby remained close to the old man Center-ville (in the sector of the parish church), where one finds the residence of Cromwell (maintaining a restaurant), and the tavern of the marquis de Granby. The inequalities in the walls of the church of parish were supposedly caused by the gun S used during the English civil war.

The crossing point of the Mersey with Warrington was essential with the future growth of the city. The inn Red Lion in Bridge Street is an example of building builds exclusively for the people using the Pont.

Towards 1890, it acquires the statute of town of county. Population reached 75 000 inhabitants. The city becomes a industrial Center: Textile Steel, , Chemistry, work of the Leather, Brewery S, electric productions of cable S.

Modern history

The second world Guerre fills the Ville of Soldat S American being used for the base of the R.A.F with Burtonwood. That involved many marriages: “young grooms of G.I”. The track is converted into Autoroute (M62), then enclosed in 1993, and from now on converted into Parc of businesses “Omega”.

The Heavy industry decreased in the Seventies and Eighties, but the urban Croissance around Warrington caused a great employment growth in the Industrie, the distribution, and the light Technologie.

The terrorist attack of the Saturday, March 20, 1993

March 20th, 1993, the WILL GO exploded two bombs in the downtown area of Warrington. The Explosion S kill two children: Johnathan Ball (3 years), killed immediately, and Tim Parry (12 years), deceased five days later with the Hospital. Their death causes a wave of reprobation towards the Terrorist organization WILL GO. This explosion follows few weeks an attack fallen through against a deposit of Carburant in Warrington.

The father of Tim Parry founds the center of peace (formerly Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Peace Center ) in order to try a reconciliation between the communities in conflict. The center opens in 2000, at the time of the seventh birthday of the explosion.

Political history

Warrington is known in the political history to be the city to have elected the first candidate of recently formed SDP-Liberal alliance. The former minister for the interior Roy Jenkins represents the MP in 1981, but loses the post with the profit of Doug Hoyle, demolished due to a weak participation of the voters.

The base of the American air force

However, much American people, in particular , remembers Warrington thanks to its base of Burtonwood RAF, one of the greatest bases of the RAF in England. During the War, Burtonwood accepted the visit of celebrities like Humphrey Bogart and Bob Hope, come to amuse the Troupe S.

Arts and entertainment

Warrington has a Théâtre (the Hall parr), a new center of Art S (the pyramid), a Musée and a public Bibliothèque (the first library subsidized by the State in the United Kingdom), and of the public baths of the era victorienne (closed in July 2003, with the dubious future). There is a Cinéma located at Westbrook and another in the downtown area in redéveloppement. There are several parks and of many natural reserves. One also finds a Bowling on Winwick Quay and a ground of Paintball in interior. A circuit of Kart in interior is localized close to Bank Quay.

Purchases

Warrington has a Shopping mall ( place of gold ) built in the the Seventies, with a united Coach station. The email must be prolonged, and a new coach station will open at the summer 2006. There is a market of interior. The old mill of textile of Cockhedge is converted into another shopping mall with large a Supermarché and much of small shops. The main streets of purchases are Buttermrket Street, Horsemarket Street, Sankey Street and Bridge Street. Where these 4 streets meet there is an attractive modern rebuilding with “skittles” and a large fountain. In the surrounding Faubourg S modern there are several zones of workshop of small groups of stores to the emails such as the email of Birchwood and the email of the Culcheth which is called CPS.

Buildings

The most interesting buildings are the Town hall, formerly Hall, the academy, supposed “the small house Cromwell” (17th century), and the church of parish of the 14th century, and the street Elphin, mainly a rebuilding of Victorian, with its whorl 280-foot. The impressive lines of the railway warehouse of Cheshire are currently in disastrous, but reconstructible state.

Transport

Trains

The city has two Gare S, Bank Quay on southern London and it with the line of Glasgow, and Exchange on the line of Liverpool Lime Street - Widnes - Manchester Picadilly, Wales by Chester and the route of Transpennine with Sheffield, York and the coast of the east by Manchester. There are the regional stations in the suburbs surrounding at Padgate, Sankey and Birchwood (on the line between Warrington Central and Manchester Picadilly). The city is close to the highways M62, M6 and M56 and halfway between the airports of Liverpool and Manchester.

The bus

The transport of the town of Warrington (which is called the municipal transport of Warrington) run the majority of the services of Autobus in the city, the First group and arrived for the North-West of England provide bonds of bus to the cities and the surrounding cities such as Altrincham, Manchester, the center of Trafford, Liverpool, Runcorn, Leigh, Northwich, Knutsford and Chester. A new information system in real-time of passenger (for the services by TMdW) was now installed but in some sectors (particularly in the external zones) it remains to activate.

The river transport

The channel of boat of Manchester (which is called “Manchester Ship Canal”) functions by the heart of the city dividing it into two (the south (the half more beautiful) and north (the half with the majority of HLM S and the suburbs municipal) and the channel of Bridgewater (Bridgewater Canal) functions of the scenic village of Lymm through to the gardens of Walton Lea (Walton Lea Gardens, a local sector of park/lesiure.

Pont transporter

The Transporter bridge of Warrington is a private industrial bridge built in 1916. It spans the the Mersey and was used to connect the industrial parks located on two banks. It is well preserved, but is not any more of use since 1960.

Sports

Folâtre sports of the Prime Minister for the city which the team is the club of league of Rugby of wolves of Warrington. It recently moved with the Stade of Halliwell Jones, on the basis of his house during more than one century, Wilderspool. Football is represented by Warrington Town with the park cantilever (a team of not-league), beside the channel of boat of Manchester.

External bonds

Sectors of the external zone

Appleton
Appleton Thorn
Birchwood
Broomedge (close to Lymm)
Burtonwood
Hakes Green (close to Burtonwood)
Culcheth
Cuerdly Cross-country race (close to Widnes but in the municipal surface to Warrington)
Croft (close to Culcheth)
Fowley Common
Grappenhall
Gorse Covert (close to Birchwood)
Hatton (close to Appleton)
Higher Walton
Latchford
Lately Common
Lower Stretton
Locking Stumps (close to Birchwood)
Lymm
New Lane End
Stockton Heath
Thelwall
Twiss Green
Winwick

Internal sectors of the zone

Bewsey
Beetle
Dallam
Doe Green
Fearnhead
Great Sankey
Martinscroft
Orford
Padgate
Penketh
Stretton
Warrington
Westy
Woolston

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