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Middlewich was founded by the Romans, who gave it the name Salinae because of its surrounding salt deposits.
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Not all haulage was by horses, and an experiment was carried out on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1888.
A packhorse route ( known as a saltway ) was maintained from the Middle Ages onwards to allow the export of salt from the Cheshire towns of Nantwich, Northwich and Middlewich across the Pennines.
On 27 December, Sir William Brereton, the Parliamentarian commander in Cheshire and Lancashire, attempted to concentrate his forces to confront Byron, but was defeated by a sudden Royalist attack at the Second Battle of Middlewich.
The canal was instigated by an Act of Parliament in 1772, which authorised the construction of a canal to run " from the River Dee, within the liberties of the city of Chester, to or near Middlewich and Nantwich ".
At Middlewich the Trent and Mersey Canal was under construction.
Construction of the main line was completed in 1779, but the branch to Middlewich was not built, and there were difficulties at the Chester end, with a failure to reach an agreement with the Dee River Company resulting in delays to the building of the lock into the river.
Profitability was maintained, with the result then when most of the Shropshire Union network of canals were abandoned in 1944, the sections which had originally been the Chester Canal, the Ellesmere Canal, the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal and the Middlewich Branch were all retained.
The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of the former borough of Congleton, the urban districts of Alsager, Middlewich and Sandbach, and the Congleton Rural District.
John Hulse ( 1708 – 1790 ) was an English clergyman from Middlewich, Cheshire.
As a wich town, Middlewich is an important centre for the extraction of salt ; in earlier years it was also known for its production of Cheshire cheese, silk, and its agriculture.
On 13 March 1643 the town was the scene of the first Battle of Middlewich, between the Parliamentarians, under Sir William Brereton, and the Royalist supporters of King Charles I of England, under Sir Thomas Aston.
In the middle of the 19th century Middlewich was described as a town with principal works being the surrounding farming district, a silk factory, and the salt works in Kinderton and Newton.
At the time of the Domesday survey ( 1086 ) Middlewich was in the hundred of Middlewich, but by the 14th century it had become part of the Northwich hundred, although a small part of the then large parish of Middlewich extended into the hundred of Eddisbury.
In 1974, as part of the Local Government Act 1972, Middlewich Urban District was abolished and its territory passed into the borough of Congleton.
He was born at Sproston House, near Middlewich, Cheshire, which had been in the possession of his family for several generations.
The Romans developed the settlements at Condate ( Northwich ) and Salinae ( Middlewich ) due to the importance as their salt mines Salt was very important in Roman society ; and highly valued by the Roman occupation forces.
Chester was a Royalist stronghold, while the market towns of Stockport, Knutsford, Nantwich, Congleton, Middlewich and Northwich remained in Parliamentarian hands.
The Bunbury Agreement was agreed locally, but the strategic position of Cheshire and the port of Chester meant that national commanders could never accept the local neutrality and the forces ended up clashing in the First Battle of Middlewich in March 1643.
John Hulse was born at Middlewich, in Cheshire, the eldest of nineteen children from Thomas Hulse of Elworth Hall, Sandbach and Anne Webb of Middlewich.
Middlewich and by
Of the 23 civil parishes, four were administered at this level of local government by town councils: Alsager, Middlewich, Sandbach, and Congleton ; with the remainder having parish councils.
Extraction of salt from brine is still heavily used, for example, vacuum salt produced by British Salt in Middlewich has 57 % of the UK market
Middlewich and Salinae
* Salinae ( Middlewich, Cheshire )-Salt manufacturing town.
Middlewich and because
In common with other local towns such as Holmes Chapel, Northwich and Winsford, people are attracted to Middlewich because of its good road links via the M6 motorway and the relatively low price and availability of suitable building land.
Middlewich and its
It is a " narrow canal " for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and west of Middlewich, it is a wide canal.
The Cerebos salt company invented ' Bisto ' gravy powder product ( a mixture of salt, flavourings and colourings ), at its salt factory in Middlewich, Cheshire in the United Kingdom.
Middlewich and salt
By the end of the 17th century a major salt mining industry had developed around the Cheshire " salt towns " of Northwich, Middlewich, Nantwich and Winsford.
The town's population has doubled since 1970 despite a reduction in the number of manufacturing jobs in salt and textile manufacturing, suggesting that many of the new residents live in Middlewich for reasons other than local employment.
It is also supposed that " wich " or " wych " refers to a salt town, with Middlewich being the middle town between Northwich and Nantwich.
The Cornovii tribe had their capital at The Wrekin, Shropshire and were known to trade in salt from mines at Middlewich and Northwich.
Several English places carry the suffix and are historically related to salt, including the four Cheshire ' wiches ' of Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Leftwich ( a small village south of Northwich ), and Droitwich in Worcestershire.
It lies on the River Weaver south of Northwich and west of Middlewich, and grew around the salt mining industry after the river was canalised in the eighteenth century, allowing freight to be conveyed northwards to the Port of Runcorn on the River Mersey.
Middlewich and .
* March 13 – First English Civil War – First Battle of Middlewich: The Roundheads rout the Cavaliers at Middlewich in Cheshire, England.
On the Cheshire stretch of the canal, between Middlewich and the northern end of the canal in Preston Brook Tunnel, is the Victorian Anderton Boat Lift, which lowers boats fifty feet from the T & M to the River Weaver.
After Anderton, the next major destination is Middlewich, where a junction with the 50 yard long Wardle Canal leads to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal which gives access to Chester, Llangollen and ( south on the ' Shroppie ') a parallel route to Birmingham / Wolverhampton.
South of Middlewich, having passed through Wheelock, the T & M climbs out of the Cheshire Plain via the ' Heartbreak Hill ' locks ( more traditionally known as the ' Cheshire Locks ') to the summit-level and the junction with the Hall Green Branch, leading to the Macclesfield Canal at Red Bull Kidsgrove.
Northwich and Delamere Forest, Winsford and Middlewich.
With two connections to the Trent and Mersey ( via the Middlewich Branch and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal ) the SU is part of an important circular and rural holiday route called the Four Counties Ring.
The plans were changed, with the main line going to Nantwich, and the Middlewich section becoming a branch.
In 1790 the plans for the Ellesmere Canal were published, and the directors of the Chester canal saw this as a chance to make the canal profitable again, and to build the Middlewich branch.
With the prospect of being part of a link between Liverpool and the Midlands, the joint company pressed on with the construction of the Middlewich branch, which would give an outlet to Manchester and the Potteries industrial centre around Stoke on Trent.
The canal passes through Christleton, Waverton, Hargrave and Tiverton before passing Barbridge Junction, where the branch to Middlewich begins, and Hurleston Junction, which has given access to the Llangollen Canal since 1806.
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire )-Small town built on the site of a possible earlier Neronian fort, on the road from Middlewich to Derby.
It included the towns of Congleton, Alsager, Holmes Chapel, Middlewich and Sandbach.
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