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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 Mersey Gateway Bridge.
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.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrow’s Green and Penketh.
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″ northLongitude
-2.68839° or 2° 41′ 18″ westElevation
128 feet (39 metres)Open location code
9C5V98C6+7JOpenStreetMap ID
way 25201930OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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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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