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unusual facts about Wilmslow


Manchester Metro News

It is delivered in south and east Manchester, Stockport, Trafford and the Wilmslow area - and has three separate geographical editions: City (in south and east Manchester), Trafford (in Trafford and Wythenshawe) and Stockport (in Stockport and Wilmslow).


Cyril Ernest Harrison

Sir Cyril Ernest Harrison (14 December 1901, Sileby, Leicestershire - 15 March 1980, Wilmslow, Cheshire) was a cotton industrialist.

Didsbury School of Education

The Didsbury College of Education, Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, England, is a campus of Manchester Metropolitan University.

History of Manchester Airport

It is the terminus of a spur line west from the railway line from Manchester through Styal to Wilmslow and Crewe.

Lindow Moss

The first written record of Lindow Moss was in 1421 when the lord of Mobberley and Wilmslow allowed people to dig peat from the mossland for use as fuel.

Metropolitan county

Many areas on the edges were excluded from the metropolitan counties when the Bill was passed: Easington, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ellesmere Port, Neston, New Mills, Whaley Bridge and Glossop : other areas were excluded during the Bill's passage, such as Seaham, Skelmersdale and Holland, Poynton and Wilmslow.

Urban rail in the United Kingdom

Sale, Alderley Edge and Wilmslow are examples of early settlements that had railway stations in the early-mid-19th century and grew into sizable commuter towns.


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