Crewe
Crewe is a medium-sized town in South Cheshire. It boasts friendly people, inexpensive hotels and eateries. It is famed for its railway connections and also as the home of Rolls Royce, though the factory is now operated by Bentley Motors.Photo: Arwel Parry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Alex Liivet, CC0.
- Type: Town with 75,600 residents
- Description: railway town and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England
- Also known as: “Crewe, Cheshire” and “Monks Coppenhall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alexandra Stadium and Crewe Railway Station.
Alexandra Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gresty Road, also known as the Alexandra Stadium and currently known as the Mornflake Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Crewe, Cheshire, England. It is the home ground of Crewe Alexandra and has an all-seated capacity of 10,153.
Crewe Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Thryduulf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crewe railway station serves the railway town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. It opened in 1837 and is one of the most historically significant railway stations in the world.
Crewe Heritage Centre
Museum
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crewe Heritage Centre is a railway museum located in Crewe, England. Managed by the Crewe Heritage Trust, the museum is located between the railway station and the town centre; the site was the location of the 'Old Works' which was demolished in the early 1980s.
Crewe
- Categories: railway town, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Shavington cum Gresty, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.0996° or 53° 5′ 59″ northLongitude
-2.4415° or 2° 26′ 29″ westPopulation
75,600Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)IATA airport code
XVCUnited Nations Location Code
GB CREOpen location code
9C5V3HX5+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 493926271OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2652002Wikidata ID
Q648810
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Crewe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كرو (تشيشير)”
- Arabic: “كرو”
- Armenian: “Կրու”
- Asturian: “Crewe”
- Basque: “Crewe”
- Bengali: “ক্রিউ”
- Bulgarian: “Крю”
- Catalan: “Crewe”
- Cebuano: “Crewe”
- Chinese: “克魯”
- Chinese: “克鲁”
- Danish: “Crewe”
- Dutch: “Crewe”
- Esperanto: “Crewe”
- Esperanto: “Kruo”
- French: “Crewe”
- Galician: “Crewe”
- German: “Crewe”
- Greek: “Κριού”
- Gujarati: “ક્રેવ”
- Hebrew: “קרו”
- Hungarian: “Crewe”
- Indonesian: “Crewe”
- Irish: “Crewe”
- Italian: “Crewe”
- Japanese: “クルー”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ರೆವ್”
- Korean: “크루”
- Ladin: “Crewe”
- Latvian: “Krū”
- Lithuanian: “Kru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crewe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crewe”
- Norwegian: “Crewe”
- Persian: “کرو، چشر”
- Polish: “Crewe”
- Portuguese: “Crewe”
- Romanian: “Crewe”
- Russian: “Кру”
- Scots: “Crewe”
- Serbian: “Кру”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Crewe”
- Slovenian: “Crewe”
- South Azerbaijani: “کرو، چشر”
- Spanish: “Crewe”
- Swedish: “Crewe”
- Tamil: “கிரிவெ”
- Tatar: “Кру”
- Telugu: “క్రీవ్”
- Turkish: “Crewe”
- Ukrainian: “Кру”
- Urdu: “کریوی”
- Volapük: “Crewe”
- Welsh: “Crewe”
- Welsh: “Cryw”
- “ma tomo Kelu”
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