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The theatre was built by Daneside Theatre Trust Ltd. on top of the Congleton open-air swimming baths as part of the Daneside Leisure Development, [6] which led to the closure of the swimming baths. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] The theatre cost £198,000 to build; [ 9 ] some funding came from local townspeople who paid to have a seat named after a family member ...
Congleton Town Council subsequently purchased land between Town Wood and the River Dane. The park was designed by Edward Kemp (who had worked under Joseph Paxton at Chatsworth House) and the town surveyor William Blackshaw. A cast-iron bridge was built over the River Dane, providing a southern entry to the park.
Congleton became an important centre of textile production, especially leather gloves and lace. [3] Congleton had an early silk throwing mill, the Old Mill built by John Clayton and Nathaniel Pattison in 1753. [9] More mills followed, and cotton was also spun. The town's prosperity depended on tariffs imposed on imported silk.
High Street, Congleton. Congleton is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England. It contains 133 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest grade, four are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II.
The town of Congleton had been a municipal borough from 1836 to 1974 with a borough council. [7] The first elections to the new Congleton Borough created under the Local Government Act 1972 were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974.
Congleton Town Council, which was created in 1980, established offices in the building in January 2007 and acquired its freehold in June 2008. [3] The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the town hall and met with local charities and community groups on 24 January 2018.
The later National School was itself demolished in the 1980s and is the site of the Salinae Day Care Centre, opened in 1995. [28] [36] At the turn of the 20th century two new schools were built: St Mary's Catholic school, whose keystone was laid in 1899 by Col. France-Hayhurst, and the secondary school, opened by France-Hayhurst in 1906.
The Congleton Link Road, which was completed in 2021, continues the A536 from just south of Eaton to join the A534 Sandbach Road, bypassing Congleton to the north. [2]