Fiddlers Ferry power station

Fiddler's Ferry power station is a decommissioned coal fired power station in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey.

Photo: Alan Godfree, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Industry
Description: former coal-fired power station in Widnes, Cheshire, England
Also known as: “Fiddler’s Ferry power station” and “Fiddlers Ferry Power Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Ambrose Church and Widnes railway station.

St Ambrose Church

Church

Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Ambrose Church, in Widnes, England, was built in 1882 to a design by James Francis Doyle of Liverpool. St Ambrose Church is situated 1 mile west of Fiddlers Ferry power station.

Widnes railway station

Railway station

Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.

Widnes railway station is a railway station serving the industrial town of Widnes, Halton, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The station is operated by Northern Trains. Widnes railway station is situated 2 miles west of Fiddlers Ferry power station.

Mersey Gateway Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Bazonka, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Mersey Gateway Bridge is a toll bridge between Runcorn and Widnes in Cheshire, England, which spans the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal. Mersey Gateway Bridge is situated 1½ miles southwest of Fiddlers Ferry power station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barrow’s Green and Penketh.

Barrow’s Green

Suburb

Barrow's Green is a village in Cheshire, England.

Penketh

Suburb

Photo: Brian Balfe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Penketh is a civil parish and suburb of Warrington in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is located about 3 miles west of Warrington town centre.

Widnes

Photo: Rancher2019, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Fiddlers Ferry power station

Category: coal-fired power station
Location: Cuerdley, Warrington, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.37069° or 53° 22′ 15″ north

Longitude

-2.68839° or 2° 41′ 18″ west

Elevation

128 feet (39 metres)

Open location code

9C5V98C6+7J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 25201930

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

GeoNames ID

7284397

Wikidata ID

Q2944663

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In Other Languages

From French to Norwegian Bokmål—“Fiddlers Ferry power station” goes by many names.

French: “centrale thermique de Fiddlers Ferry”
French: “Centrale thermique de Fiddlers Ferry”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Fiddlers Ferry kraftverk”
Norwegian: “Fiddlers Ferry kraftverk”

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