Widnes
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.
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 61,500 residents
- Description: town in Cheshire, England
- Also known as: “ウィッドネス”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Halton Stadium and Widnes railway station.
Widnes railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.Riverside College
College
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Runcorn and Farnworth.
Farnworth
Suburb
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
Widnes
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Halebank, Halton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.3647° or 53° 21′ 53″ north
Longitude
-2.7283° or 2° 43′ 42″ west
Population
61,500
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB WDN
Open location code
9C5V977C+VM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Widnes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويدنس”
- Armenian: “Ուիդնես”
- Asturian: “Widnes”
- Azerbaijani: “Vidnes”
- Basque: “Widnes”
- Belarusian: “Уіднес”
- Catalan: “Widnes”
- Cebuano: “Widnes”
- Chinese: “威德尼斯”
- Czech: “Widnes”
- Dutch: “Widnes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويدنس”
- French: “Widnes”
- German: “Widnes”
- Hebrew: “וידנס”
- Irish: “Widnes”
- Italian: “Widnes”
- Japanese: “ウィドネス”
- Korean: “위드너스”
- Kurdish: “Widnes”
- Ladin: “Widnes”
- Latvian: “Vidnesa”
- Lithuanian: “Vidnesas”
- Lithuanian: “Vidnis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Widnes”
- Northern Frisian: “Widnes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Widnes”
- Persian: “ویدنز”
- Polish: “Widnes”
- Romanian: “Widnes”
- Russian: “Виднес”
- Russian: “Уиднес”
- Russian: “Уиднис”
- Russian: “Уиднс”
- Serbian: “Vidnes”
- Serbian: “Виднес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Widnes”
- Silesian: “Widnes”
- Slovenian: “Widnes”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویدنز”
- Swedish: “Widnes”
- Tatar: “Виднес”
- Tatar: “Виднс”
- Ukrainian: “Віднес”
- Urdu: “وڈنس”
- Volapük: “Widnes”
- Welsh: “Widnes”
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