Daresbury is a small rural village in Warrington, Cheshire, northern England. It is covered by the Warrington South constituency. The most notable things about Daresbury are that it was the birthplace (some 1.5 miles south of the village) of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson), and that the CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory possesses a rather large particle accelerator, the Synchrotron Radiation Source. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Location within the British Isles Warrington is the largest town and borough in the county of Cheshire, in the North-West of England. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester) is a county... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... UK parliamentary constituency representing (approximately) the area of Warrington, Cheshire, south of the River Mersey. ... John Tenniels illustration for A Mad Tea-Party, 1865 Illustration by Arthur Rackham Facsimile page from Alices Adventures Under Ground Alices Adventures in Wonderland is a work of childrens literature by the British mathematician and author, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. ... Lewis Carroll. ... The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC or CLRC) is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering. ... A 1960s single stage 2MeV linear Van de Graaff accelerator, here opened for maintenance A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric and/or magnetic fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds. ...

Controversy arose in the late 1990s when Diamond, a new synchrotron light source planned for installation at the Laboratory, went instead to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Didcot in Oxfordshire. See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ... Diamond Light Source is a synchrotron research facility located on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England. ... Synchrotron radiation emerging from a beam port. ... Aerial View of Rutherford Appleton Lab The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) at the Chilton/Harwell Science Campus is a UK scientific research laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire. ... Didcot is a town in the Thames Valley in southern England, United Kingdom. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...

Daresbury has become a place of pilgrimage because of the Lewis Carroll association. The parish church has a Lewis Carroll window.

In 2006, the annual Creamfields dance festival was held in Daresbury after relocating from the disused Liverpool airport site in had occupied for 6 consecutive years previously. This saw 40,000 revellers partying from 3pm-6am to a line-up that included live performances from The Prodigy and Zutons, as well as DJ Set's from the likes of Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, 2 Many DJ's, Green Velvet and DJ Shadow. It is anticipated that this will be an annual occurence in the village. Creamfields is a large dance music festival featuring DJs and live acts. ... For other uses, see Prodigy (disambiguation). ... The Zutons are a UK rock band consisting of : Abi Harding: Saxophone David McCabe: Lead Vocalist Boyan Chowdhury: Guitar Sean Payne: Drums Russell Pritchard: Bass The Zutons debut album Who Killed The Zutons? was a criticly acclaimed nominee for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. ... Sasha on the cover of Involver Sasha, born Alexander Coe (born September 4, 1969), is a Welsh DJ and record producer. ... Paul Oakenfold performs at Club Nation in Washington DC. Photo by: Utopium Paul Oakenfold (born August 30, 1958 in London, England) is a record producer and one of the best-known DJs worldwide. ... Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an alternative rock band hailing from Ghent, Belgium. ... Curtis Jones is an electronic and house music singer, songwriter and producer born April 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois. ... Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, (born January 1, 1973 in Davis, California) is a turntablist musician. ...

External links

• Daresbury Laboratory