Delamere
| Delamere | |
| Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 St Peter's Church, Delamere | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ563686 |
| Location: | 53°7’48"N, 2°24’-0"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Northwich |
| Postcode: | CW8 |
| Dialling code: | 01606 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cheshire West & Chester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Crewe and Nantwich |
Delamere is a village and ancient parish in the Eddisbury Hundred of Cheshire. It is approximately seven miles west of Northwich. Since 2015 it has formed part of the civil parish of Delamere and Oakmere, with a population taken at the 2011 census of 1,025.[1] The name of the village comes from the French de la mere "of the lake".
The parish is well known for the Delamere Forest, an expanse of oak, pine and sycamore trees which forms the largest woodland in Cheshire.[2] It includes the hills of Old Pale and Eddisbury Hill, part of the Mid Cheshire Ridge.
There are several cafés, including the Station House Café at Delamere railway station and Delamere Café in Delamere Forest. Other services include a primary school (Delamere C of E Academy[3]), shop (Delamere Stores), community centre[4] and public house, the Vale Royal Abbey Arms on the A556.[5]
Transport
Delamere is served by Delamere railway station which opened on 22 June 1870. There are regular stopping services to both Chester and Manchester Piccadilly.
Geodesy
On Pale Heights (National Grid SJ543696) was the origin (meridian) of the first Ordnance Survey one-inch mapping of the whole of the United Kingdom.[6]
Notable people
- Alan Mayers, footballer.
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Delamere) |
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122656&c=CW6+0SL&d=16&e=62&g=6408948&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1432992360072&enc=1. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ↑ Forestry Commission: Delamere Forest Park: Information (accessed 13 January 2013)
- ↑ "Home page". Delamere Academy. http://www.delamereacademy.co.uk/. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ↑ "Delamere Community Centre". Cheshire Community Action. http://www.cheshireaction.org.uk/forest-delamere. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ↑ "Home page". Vale Royal Abbey Arms. https://www.valeroyalabbeyarms.co.uk/. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ↑ Adams, Brian (1998–99). "198 years and 153 meridians, 152 defunct". The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps. p. 2. https://www.charlesclosesociety.org/files/153Meridians.pdf.
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