Northwich
Northwich is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England. It lies on the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane, 18 miles east of Chester, 15 miles south of Warrington, 19 miles south of Manchester, 69 miles north of Birmingham, and 36 miles south of Liverpool.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 19,900 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Northwich, Cheshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anderton Boat Lift and Northwich railway station.
Anderton Boat Lift
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Anderton Boat Lift is a two-caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England. It provides a 50-foot vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Northwich railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bob Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Northwich railway station serves the town of Northwich in Cheshire, England. The station has two platforms in use. It is located on the Mid-Cheshire line 28+1⁄4 miles southwest of Manchester Piccadilly.
Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse
Museum
The Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse, Northwich, Cheshire, records the social, cultural and industrial history of West Cheshire. Formerly known as the Salt Museum, its early focus was on the history of salt extraction, a local industry dating back to Roman times.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hartford and Barnton.
Hartford
Village
Photo: Jo Lxix, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hartford is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies in the Cheshire Plain, to the south-west of the town of Northwich, at the intersection of the A559 road and the West Coast Main Line.
Barnton
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barnton is a civil parish and village, just outside the town of Northwich, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Winnington
Suburb
Photo: Salinae, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Winnington is a ward and northwestern suburb of the town of Northwich, in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England.
Northwich
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.2603° or 53° 15′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.5145° or 2° 30′ 52″ westPopulation
19,900Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB NTHOpen location code
9C5V7F6P+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 30020085OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Northwich” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نورثويتش”
- Asturian: “Northwich”
- Basque: “Northwich”
- Bengali: “নর্থভিচ”
- Breton: “Northwich”
- Bulgarian: “Нортуич”
- Cebuano: “Northwich”
- Chinese: “Northwich”
- Chinese: “诺斯威奇”
- Chinese: “诺斯维奇”
- Chinese: “諾斯威奇”
- Chinese: “諾斯威治”
- Chinese: “諾斯維奇”
- Dutch: “Northwich”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نورثويتش”
- French: “Northwich”
- German: “Northwich”
- Gujarati: “નોર્થવિચ”
- Hebrew: “נורת’וויץ‘”
- Hungarian: “Northwich”
- Irish: “Northwich”
- Italian: “Northwich”
- Japanese: “ノースウィック”
- Japanese: “ノースウィッチ”
- Kannada: “ನಾರ್ತ್ವಿಚ್”
- Korean: “노스위치”
- Ladin: “Northwich”
- Latvian: “Nortviča”
- Lithuanian: “Northwich”
- Lithuanian: “Nortvičas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Northwich”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Northwich”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Northwich”
- Norwegian: “Northwich”
- Persian: “نورتویچ”
- Polish: “Northwich”
- Portuguese: “Northwich”
- Romanian: “Northwich”
- Russian: “Нортвич”
- Russian: “Нортуич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Northwich”
- South Azerbaijani: “نورتویچ”
- Spanish: “Northwich”
- Swedish: “Northwich”
- Tamil: “நார்த்விக்”
- Telugu: “నార్త్విచ్”
- Turkish: “Northwich”
- Ukrainian: “Нортвіч”
- Urdu: “نورتھویچ”
- Volapük: “Northwich”
- Welsh: “Heledd-ddu”
- Welsh: “Northwich”
- Welsh: “Yr Heledd Ddu”
- “ma tomo Nowi”
- “Northwich”
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