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Winsford is a town in the county of Cheshire, North West England. It lies south of Northwich on the River Weaver. It grew around the salt mining industry after the river was canalised in the eighteenth century, allowing freight to be conveyed northwards to the Port of Runcorn on the River Mersey. Winsford is split into two neighbourhoods: Over on the western side of the River Weaver and Wharton on the eastern side. Image File history File links Dot4gb. ...
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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) [1] is a...
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Port of Runcorn is situated at Runcorn on the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal. ...
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Over may refer to: Look up Over on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Over (cricket) Over (professional wrestling) or a place in England: Over, Cambridgeshire Over, Cheshire Over, South Gloucestershire This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
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Aerial view / Street map of Winsford
Government
Three councils have responsibility for Winsford: - The town is represented by one MP, Stephen O'Brien, Member of Parliament for Eddisbury: Official Website of the MP.
- Winsford is officially twinned with [Deuill-La-Barre] in France.
Transport links Winsford railway station, on the main Liverpool to Birmingham line, is one mile east of the center of the town, in Wharton. The M6 motorway at junction 18 at Middlewich is the nearest motorway link, with the A54 connecting the town to it. The nearest airports are Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Manchester Airport. Winsford railway station serves the town of Winsford in Cheshire External links Train times and station information for Winsford railway station from National Rail Street map and aerial photo of Winsford railway station from Multimap. ...
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Statistics Population: 13,170 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SJ704663 Administration District: Congleton Shire county: Cheshire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Cheshire Historic county: Cheshire Services Police force: Cheshire Ambulance service: North West Post office and telephone Post town: Middlewich...
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Retail [Fords of Winsford] is one of the largest second-hand car dealers in the UK and is situated in Wharton. Major supermarkets are Asda and Aldi in the town centre and Morrisons in Wharton. Other major chains include JJB Sports, Argos, Boots, Brantano and Peacocks. The shopping centre is of 1970s design, with some covered areas. Please click [here] for a list of shops in Winsford. ASDA, West Bridgford, Nottingham This article is about a supermarket chain. ...
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Morrisons store in Morecambe, Lancashire Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc (LSE: MRW) is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ...
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History
13th Century Kings Henry III and Edward I occasionally held court at Darnhall near Winsford. The latter king founded Vale Royal Abbey at Darnhall, but then moved it in 1277 to near Whitegate. By around 1280, a charter had been granted to form a new town near the Abbey, centred on the present-day Delamere Street in Winsford. From this charter can be traced the origins of the market that is still held in the town. Rulers with the title Henry III include: Henry III of Champagne Henry III of England Henry III of France Henry III of Germany (later Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor) Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor Henry III of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) Henry III, Duke of Saxony (Henry the...
Edward I; illustration from Cassells History of England circa 1902. ...
Darnhall is a small village to the southwest of Winsford in the English county of Cheshire. ...
Once one of the largest abbeys in England, now a golf course and private estate, in Whitegate, between Northwich and Winsford in the county of Cheshire [Abbey Buildings:[1],[2],[3]] // History King Edward I and the foundation of Vale Royal Abbey When King Henry IIIs son Edward was...
Whitegate is a small village in Cheshire, close to the towns of Northwich and Winsford. ...
18th Century The Government gave permission for artificial improvements to be made to the River Weaver in 1721, in order to allow large barges to reach Winsford from the port of Liverpool. At first, this was the closest that barges carrying china clay from Cornwall could get to the Potteries district of north Staffordshire, which was then rapidly developing as the major centre of ceramic production in Britain. The River Weaver The River Weaver is a watercourse running a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, England. ...
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ...
Kaolin Kaolinite (Aluminium Silicate Hydroxide) Kaolinite is a mineral with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4. ...
Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ...
Stoke-on-Trent Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
Cornish china clay was used in the production of earthenware and stoneware. The clay was taken overland from Winsford by pack horse to manufacturers in the Potteries, a distance of about 30 miles. Locally-produced salt was also transported to the Potteries, for use in the manufacture of salt-glazed stoneware. Finished ceramics from the Potteries were brought back to Winsford, for onward export through the port of Liverpool. That trade ended in the 1780s when the Trent and Mersey Canal carried the goods through Middlewich, bypassing Winsford. Kaolin Kaolinite (Aluminium Silicate Hydroxide) Kaolinite is a mineral with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4. ...
Earthenware is a particularly common type of ceramic material and is used extensively for tableware and decorative objects. ...
A Staffordshire stoneware plate from the 1850s with transferred copper print - (From the home of JL Runeberg) Stoneware is a category of clay and a type of pottery distinguished primarily by its firing and maturation temperature (from about 1200°C to 1315 °C). ...
Stoke-on-Trent Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Stoke-on-Trent Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
A Staffordshire stoneware plate from the 1850s with transferred copper print - (From the home of JL Runeberg) Stoneware is a category of clay and a type of pottery distinguished primarily by its firing and maturation temperature (from about 1200°C to 1315 °C). ...
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The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal linking the River Trent at Shardlow in Derbyshire to the River Mersey at Runcorn in Cheshire. ...
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The canalised River Weaver was the inspiration for the Duke of Bridgewater's canals and later the engineer for the Weaver Navigation, Edwin Leader Williams, designed and built the Manchester Ship Canal. The River Weaver The River Weaver is a watercourse running a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, England. ...
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The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ...
19th Century From the 1830s, salt became important to Winsford, partly because the salt mines under Northwich had begun to collapse and another source of salt near the River Weaver was needed. A new source was discovered in Winsford, leading to the development of a salt industry along the course of the River Weaver, where many factories were established. By 1897, Winsford had become the largest producer of salt in Britain. As a result, a new town developed within a mile of the old Borough of Over which had been focused on Delamere Street. Most of the early development took place on the other side of the river, with new housing, shops, pubs, chapels and a new church being built in the former hamlet of Wharton. As the wind usually blew the smoke away from Over, it became the place for the wealthier inhabitants to live. However, people who worked on the barges and other people working in Winsford started to develop along the old Over Lane, now the High Street. The old Borough tried to keep itself separate but had been connected by the 1860s. A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). ...
It has been suggested that Winnington be merged into this article or section. ...
A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). ...
The River Weaver The River Weaver is a watercourse running a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, England. ...
A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). ...
The River Weaver The River Weaver is a watercourse running a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, England. ...
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20th Century
 Winsford, as seen from Weaver Valley Park, Wharton
By the World War II, the salt trade had declined as one company took control of all the salt works and introduced methods of manufacture that needed greatly reduced labour. Slum clearance started in the 1930s and, by the 1950s, there were three new housing estates on both sides of the river to replace sub-standard homes. However, even in the 1960s, Winsford could be described as "one long line of mainly terraced houses from the station to Salterswall". Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1800x1200, 495 KB) Photographed by Ian Anstice. ...
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Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
The town experienced a major expansion in the late 1960s and 1970s with its designation as a New Town. This saw the development of two new industrial areas on both sides of the town and new housing estates for council and private development along with the creation of the new shopping centre with its associated library, sports centre, civic hall and doctors' surgeries. The expansion in population was, however, not fully completed, leaving the town with far larger civic buildings than its population would otherwise warrant. A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ...
From a social point of view, this led to a mix in the population of the town. The original Cheshire residents experienced a wave of inhabitants from Manchester which was followed by a second and much larger wave of newcomers from Liverpool. There was (and to some extent still is) some friction between "Old" Winsfordians and the "New" Winsfordians. The term "Woolyback" for "Old" Winsfordians was a common term of abuse related to their supposed rural roots. These tensions have, with the passage of time, greatly subsided. Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ...
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ...
Vale Royal Borough Council was formed in 1974 covering Winsford, Northwich and a large rural area of mid-Cheshire. In 1991, the council moved its main office from Northwich to a purpose-built headquarters in Winsford. Winsford Town Council is also housed in the same building. Since then both Cheshire Fire Service (in 1997) and Cheshire Police (in 2003) have moved headquarters from the county town of Chester to Winsford. Vale Royal is a local government district and borough in Cheshire, North West England. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Winsford Town Council is the direct successor of the old Manor Court of the Mayors of Over dating back to around 1280. ...
Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. ...
Industry
Winsford Rock Salt The UK's only rock salt mine is at Winsford. Rock salt was laid down in this part of North West England some 220 million years ago, during the Triassic geological era. Seawater moved inland from an open sea, creating a chain of shallow salt marshes across what is today the Cheshire basin. As the marshes evaporated, deep deposits of rock salt were formed. Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with formula NaCl. ...
Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with formula NaCl. ...
North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ...
The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 200 Ma (million years ago). ...
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) [1] is a...
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Rock salt extraction began at Winsford in the 17th century. Initially it was used only as salt licks for animals, and to strengthen weak brine. In 1844 the salt mine was opened. Today, rock salt is quarried from a depth of more than 150 metres below ground, producing salt (commonly known as "grit") for use on road surfaces in winter weather. Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with formula NaCl. ...
A salt lick is a salt deposit that animals regularly lick. ...
Brine is water saturated or nearly saturated with salt. ...
Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with formula NaCl. ...
Places of interest
St Chad's Church This church, off Swanlow Lane, is the most well-known local historical landmark. One of the most popular local stories is that St Chad's Church was originally built in Delamere Street, but the devil was so angry at the people's use of it that he decided to fly off with it. The monks at Vale Royal Abbey were said to have seen him and rang the abbey bells so that it was dropped in its current location. In fact, its location is probably due to it having always belonged, along with its tithes (a tax of ten percent of income of the parishioners) to the nuns of St Mary's Convent in Chester. This presumably convinced the Abbot to build the town far enough away from the Church in order to gain the tithes himself. Chad of Mercia (died March 2, 672) was a monk and priest in 7th century England. ...
Once one of the largest abbeys in England, now a golf course and private estate, in Whitegate, between Northwich and Winsford in the county of Cheshire [Abbey Buildings:[1],[2],[3]] // History King Edward I and the foundation of Vale Royal Abbey When King Henry IIIs son Edward was...
The "Saxon Cross" On Weaver Street, by St John's Church of England Primary School on Delamere Street, is a rare (possibly unique) lock-up / monument built in the 19th Century. The Over Market met nearby so the Cross was used for locking up drunks, thieves and swindlers until the magistrates court at the Abbey Arms on the edge of Delamere Street was in session. The building is in the form of a stepped pyramid surmounted by a cross. The door to the lock-up is still visible but was blocked up in th 1970s.
Many invented tales of buried treasure and secret passages are told about the Cross but unfortunately none are true. The nearby street name of Saxon Crossway was invented by the Borough Council in the 1960s and refers to the remains of the Saxon Cross preserved at St Chad's Church.
Winsford Flashes The Winsford Flashes are the town's most notable geographical feature. In referring to them as the "Cheshire Broads", a comparison is made with the better-known Norfolk Broads. "Flash" is an English dialect word for "lake", with a regional distribution centred on the north-west counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. The Winsford Flashes (Top Flash, Middle Flash, and Bottom Flash, the largest) comprise three lakes along the course of the River Weaver, extending over some 200 acres. They formed in the 19th century (cartographical evidence dates their formation to between 1845 and 1872), due to the subsidence of surface ground into underground voids. The voids were largely the result of brine extraction, in which rock salt deposits were dissolved and washed out by water. As the ground slumped into the voids, the River Weaver widened at each point, until lakes were made where arable land had once been. From the late-19th century, Winsford Flashes became popular with working-class day-trippers from the nearby industrial centres of Manchester and the Staffordshire Potteries. Visitors came in large numbers for a day's leisure boating, picknicking, and sightseeing. However, the Winsford Flashes were never developed as a public amenity, and their popularity soon fell into decline. Today, they are primarily enjoyed by the local community, and are used for sailing, fishing, and walking. They support a wide range of wildlife, with several species of migrant wildfowl, such as Canada Geese, using them as an over-winter destination. The Norfolk Broads are the northern part of The Broads National Park. ...
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Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
The River Weaver The River Weaver is a watercourse running a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, England. ...
The River Weaver The River Weaver is a watercourse running a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, England. ...
Working class is a term used both in academic sociology as well as in ordinary conversation. ...
Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ...
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
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Other places
 Brunner Guildhall, as seen from across the High Street Also of note is the Salt Union saltmine, stretching for several square miles underneath the area between Winsford and Northwich. The salt mine produces rock salt for use as a de-icing agent on roads. Parts of the worked-out mine are operated by Deep Store Ltd., for the secure storage of documents [1]. Confidential government files, hospital patient records, and business data are stored in the mine, where the dry and stable atmosphere provide ideal conditions for long-term document storage. Rare books from the John Rylands Library, Manchester, have also been stored in the mine, while the library underwent major refurbishment. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1800x1200, 508 KB) Author: Ian Anstice. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1800x1200, 508 KB) Author: Ian Anstice. ...
A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). ...
It has been suggested that Winnington be merged into this article or section. ...
The John Rylands Library (inaugurated October 1899) is a collection of historic books and manuscripts in Manchester, England. ...
Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ...
St John's Church on Delamere Street dates from 1863 when Lord Delamere of Vale Royal commissioned the young Sandiway architect John Douglas to build it as a memorial to his deceased wife. This is the tallest building on highest part of Over so the spire can be seen for miles around.
Brunner Guildhall. Now a part of Mid Cheshire College, late Nineteenth Century.
Historic private buildings Knights Grange Pub, Grange Lane (17th Century)
Littler Grange, now a children's nursery. The best remaining half-timber building in Winsford, including sloping floors on part of the first floor.
Dawk House, Swanlow Lane. A largely unaltered timber framed farm, covered in white stucco probably during the reign of Queen Anne, including the date 1711. Stucco is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water which is applied wet, and hardens when it dries. ...
The term Queen Anne, when applied to a style of furniture or architecture, refers to the only British monarch of the name, Anne, who reigned between 1702 and 1714. ...
Blue Bell Inn by St Chad's Church, now also a children's nursery. It is in fact an exact replica of a medieval building that burned down in the 1960s.
Places of Worship For a map of some local churches click here - Assemblies of God New Life Pentecostal Church, High Street.
- ChristChurch, Crook Lane Official Website.
- St Andrew's Methodist Church, Dingle Lane.
- St Chad's Church, off Swanlow Lane.
- St John's Church, Delamere Street.
- St Joseph's Catholic Church, Woodford Lane.
- Salvation Army, Weaver Street.
- United Reformed Church, Over Square, Swanlow Lane.
The Assemblies of God is the worlds largest Pentecostal denomination with approximately 52. ...
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Recreation Also of interest is the town's football team, Winsford United. The non-league team suffered numerous relegations and now plays in the North West Counties Football League Division 2. Support for the team has dwindled over the years, falling from a pre-war peak of over 10,000 to just 100. The Blues, (after the colour of their shirts) play at Barton Stadium. Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
Winsford United are a football team based in the Cheshire town of Winsford, near the England/Wales border. ...
The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the north west of England. ...
Famous ex-players include Peter Bains (formerly of Mickleover Sports), Neville Southall, Wayne Collins, Stephen McCormack, Matthew "Ceefax" Doherty and Jemalbarq. Mickleover Sports F.C. is a football club based in Mickleover in Derby, England, currently members of the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division. ...
Neville Southall (born September 16, 1958 in Llandudno, Wales) is a former professional footballer, playing the position of goalkeeper. ...
Matthew Doherty (born 29 April 1987, in Derry) is a Northern Irish professional footballer, currently playing for Heart of Midlothian. ...
Winsford has one of the best swimming clubs in the area, [Winsford ASC] has achieved Swim21 club status and won the North West Division 1 spedo league, and has now been promoted to the premier league.
Also of note is [Vale Royal Athletic Club] who have several international athletes training with them.
Allotment gardens are sited at Moss Bank, on 4 acres of land purchased by Winsford Urban District Council in 1924. They have been continually used by the community ever since. A typical allotment plot, Essex, England Allotment gardens are characterized by a concentration in one place of a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individual families. ...
The youth football teams are Winsford Over 3 and Winsford diamonds.
The youth Cricket team is Wnsford Cricket team which is also a senior team.
Famous Winsfordians John Swanwick Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury (23 September 1872 – 3 May 1950), born in Crook Lane, Winsford, Cheshire, was a British peer and the first Baron Bradbury. ...
Baron Bradbury is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...
Clare Calbraith (born Winsford, Cheshire, 1st January 1974), is an British actress best remembered for her role as Dr Tricia Summerbee in ITVs Heartbeat. ...
Janet Elizabeth Ann Dean (born 28 January 1949) has been a British member of Parliament for the constituency of Burton since 1997. ...
David George Hanson (born 5 July 1957, Liverpool) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
David Mannix (born August 24, 1985 in Winsford) is a midfielder for the Liverpool reserve football team. ...
Nicky Maynard (born Winsford, 11th December 1986) is a striker, currently part of the Crewe Alexandra reserve team. ...
18th Century Prophet from Winsford in Cheshire. ...
Alan Oakes (born September 7, 1942 in Winsford), is an English footballer who holds Manchester Citys all-time record for appearances. ...
Johnny Briggs is also the name of the actor who plays Mike Baldwin in the soap opera Coronation Street. ...
See Also Barton Stadium is a football ground and greyhound track in Winsford, Cheshire, and is the home of Winsford United F.C. It is located off Kingsway in the Wharton area of the town. ...
There have been three major rail accidents near Winsford in Cheshire: // On 17 April 1948, 24 people died when a passenger train was stopped after the communication cord was pulled, and was run into by a following postal express. ...
External links
Sources for this article - Main information of history of Winsford is from "It's All Over", a free booklet written by J.Brian Curzon, 2006.
- Other information from the free booklet "Official Winsford Town Guide", Winsford Town Council, 2006.
Both publications currently available from Winsford Public Library.
Books about Winsford - "A Ninety Year History: Winsford Church of England Primary School 1909-1999: St Chad's Primary School" by Mary Curry, Leonie Press, 2001.
- "The Book of Winsford" by J. Brian Curzon, Quotes, 1997 - a general introduction to the town's history.
- "Winsford" by J. Brian Curzon, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2001 - Mainly photographs with captions
- "A Cheshire Parish at War: St Chad's, Over, Winsford, 1914-1925" by Ann Clayton, 1998 - who fought in the First World War from the congregation of St Chad's and what happened to them.
- "Woollyback" by Alan Fleet, Leonie Press, 2000 - a fictional account of Winsford in the 20th Century.
- "The Winsford and Over Branch" by RW Miller, Oakwood Press, 1999
- "Winsford Returns" by Alan Ravenscroft,1996 - A list of all those who served in the First World War.
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