Halton
The Borough of Halton is a local authority district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, North West England. It is administered by Halton Borough Council, a unitary authority since 1998.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: unitary authority area in England with 129,000 residents
- Description: local government district in Cheshire, North West England
- Also known as: “Borough of Halton” and “Halton, Cheshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Runcorn railway station and Runcorn Town Hall.
Runcorn railway station
Railway station
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Runcorn railway station is in the industrial town of Runcorn in Cheshire, north-west England. The station lies on the Liverpool branch of the West Coast Main Line/Crewe-Liverpool Lime Street line via Runcorn and Liverpool South Parkway between Acton Bridge/Crewe and Liverpool South Parkway and is managed by Avanti West Coast.
Runcorn Town Hall
Town hall
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Runcorn Town Hall is in Heath Road, Runcorn, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Silver Jubilee Bridge
Bridge
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The Silver Jubilee Bridge crosses the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal at Runcorn Gap between Runcorn and Widnes in Halton, England. It is a through arch bridge with a main arch span of 361 yards.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Runcorn and Widnes.
Runcorn
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The industrial inland port of Runcorn is a treasure trove of architectural styles, from medieval ruins to 1970s utopia. Its impressive bridges across the River Mersey mark the gateway north to cosmopolitan Liverpool and south to leafy Cheshire.
Widnes
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Widnes is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2021 census had a population of 62,400. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap.
Ditton
Suburb
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Ditton is a residential area of the town of Widnes, in the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It borders Halebank to the south and west, Hough Green to the north and north west and an area just outside Widnes town centre to the east. Ditton is situated 2½ miles north of Halton.
Halton
- Category: borough in the United Kingdom
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Halton” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Halton”
- Belarusian: “Халтан”
- Bengali: “হাটন”
- Bengali: “হাল্টন”
- Cebuano: “Borough of Halton”
- Chinese: “Halton”
- Chinese: “侯頓”
- Chinese: “哈尔顿”
- Chinese: “哈爾頓鎮”
- Chinese: “霍尔顿市”
- Chinese: “霍爾頓”
- Chinese: “霍爾頓市”
- Dutch: “Halton”
- Esperanto: “Halton”
- French: “Halton”
- German: “Borough of Halton”
- Gujarati: “હાલ્ટન”
- Gujarati: “હોલ્ટન”
- Hungarian: “Borough of Halton”
- Irish: “Halton”
- Italian: “Borgo di Halton”
- Italian: “Halton”
- Japanese: “バラ・オブ・ハルトン”
- Japanese: “ハルトン”
- Japanese: “ホルトン”
- Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಲ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “홀턴구”
- Latvian: “Holtona”
- Lithuanian: “Haltonas”
- Luxembourgish: “Halton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Halton”
- Northern Frisian: “Borough of Halton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Halton”
- Norwegian: “Halton”
- Persian: “هالتون”
- Polish: “Halton”
- Portuguese: “Halton”
- Romanian: “Halton”
- Russian: “Халтон”
- Russian: “Холтон”
- Scots: “Borough o Halton”
- Scots: “Halton”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Halton”
- Slovak: “Halton”
- Slovenian: “Halton”
- Spanish: “Halton”
- Swedish: “Borough of Halton”
- Tamil: “ஹால்டன்”
- Telugu: “హల్టన్”
- Telugu: “హాల్టన్”
- Ukrainian: “Галтон”
- Ukrainian: “Халтон”
- Urdu: “بورو ہالٹن”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Halton”
- “Halton”
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