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Warrington

Lying on an important bridging point of the River Mersey, Warrington claims to enjoy Britain’s most convenient location. It stands midway between the huge conurbations and ports of Manchester and Liverpool and on a nodal point of communications close to where the M6, M62 and M56 motorways intersect, and where the electrified West Coast main line links London and Scotland.

Warrington is North Cheshire’s largest town – an important industrial centre since Georgian and Victorian times and with substantial buildings of those days to prove it. Its imposing Town Hall was formerly Lord Winmarleigh’s country residence, built in 1750 with all the appropriate grandeur: windows framed in painfully expensive copper, and elaborately designed entrance gates 25ft high and 54ft wide. Along with its park, it provides a dignified focus for the town centre.

A major Victorian contribution to the town is its excellent Museum and Art Gallery in Bold Street, one of the earliest municipal museums, dating from 1857. The exhibits are remarkably varied: amongst them are shrunken heads, a unique china teapot collection, a scold’s bridle, Egyptian mummies, a Roman actor’s mask and other Roman artefacts discovered in nearby Wilderspool. There are some fine paintings as well, most of which are Victorian watercolours and oils, and a rare Vanous still life. The Museum is open from 9 to 6 Monday to Saturday.

Also worth visiting is St Elphin’s Church with its 14th century chancel and memorials celebrating the Butler and Patten families.

An interesting curiosity at Bridge Foot nearby is a combined telephone kiosk and letter box. These were quite common in the early 1900s, but Warrington’s is one of the few survivors. Also associated with the town are two prominent entertainers: the television presenter Chris Evans was born here, and the durable comedian and ukulele player George Formby, born George Hoy Booth, is buried in the town’s cemetery.