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 The Third Age Trust

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Warrington U3A

About Warrington England

The Borough of Warrington is a Unitary Authority on the River Mersey on the northern border of the county of Cheshire in north-west England. Recently primarily industrial, specialising in metal products (particularly wire) and chemicals, it is now increasingly in the service sector. Warrington owed its location to the fact that it was the first fordable upstream point of the River Mersey. The town is today a communications hub lying on the main British west coast rail line and on two major junctions of the English motorway system, the M6 junction with M62 and the M6 junction with M56. It is a short distance by road from the Manchester and Liverpool international airports. During and after WW2, Warrington became known to many US servicemen stationed at
Burtonwood, a large airbase now decommissioned, near the town.


Pre-Roman settlement.
Roman Industrial town at Wilderspool c.150.
13th Century Church St Elphins; original wooden building 675
1086 The Domesday Book gives the town name as 'Walintune'
Town mentioned by Daniel Defoe in his Travellers' Tales, letter10 1724-27
This is a large market town upon the River Mersee, over which there is a stately stone bridge.

(2007/8)Estimated borough population 195,223 (+0.25%)
(2008/9)Estimated Council Budget £million 130.1 (Council Tax increase 5.7%)

Famous people:
  • Joseph Priestley (co-discoverer of oxygen) taught here 1761
  • Lewis Carroll (1832-98) Author - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

  • The town has given its name to a style of hammer.
    A Warrington hammer is pictured right.

Warrington in Britain

Coordinates
53.383N 2.60W

OS Explorer Sheet 276

Local road map
Warrington in Europe
Satellite image of area
Town Centre street plan
showing WU3A locations




To our Town Council's site

Town Hall OS ref. SJ602882
Postcode WA1 1UH

A Warrington Digital Image Archive: from WGFL

'MyWarrington'- A mine of information from Gordon Gandy with history, photographs and guided walks.

Warrington - A Photographic History by Dave Goulden.

Warrington - Districts, Villages and Parishes
Burtonwood and Westbrook |
Croft | | Culcheth(1) | | Culcheth(2) |
Grappenhall | | Lymm | | Penketh |
Stockton Heath | | Warburton (ancient) |

Current news from "The local on-line Daily Newspaper"
Warrington-Worldwide

General and district news from the local weekly newspaper
The Warrington Guardian



RAF Burtonwood - USAF base

External links
A BBC History of Burtonwood
The Burtonwood Association
Burtonwood Heritage Centre news item
RAF Croft
Wikipedia - RAF Burtonwood
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14 July 2008
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