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Knutsford Services is a motorway service station on the M6 in Cheshire, England. History ... Cheshire Grill, waitress service, from 7.30am to 10.30pm, ...
Knutsford (/ ˈ n ʌ t s f ər d /) is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire East district, in Cheshire, England; it is located 14 miles (23 km) south-west of Manchester, 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Macclesfield and 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (20 km) south-east of Warrington.
Knutsford railway station serves the town of Knutsford in Cheshire, England. The station is 21 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (35.0 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Mid-Cheshire Line to Chester . The line is referred to as the Chester via Altrincham line at Manchester Piccadilly, but as the Manchester via Stockport line at Chester station.
Only 20 motorway services in the UK remain in the ownership of the Department for Transport and let on 50-year leases to private operating companies. [1] The vast majority of motorway services in the UK are owned by one of three companies: Moto, Welcome Break and Roadchef and a developing chain of stations being constructed by Extra.
The Mid-Cheshire line has its origins in railways promoted by three separate railway companies in the 19th century. The Cheshire Midland Railway was opened to passengers between Altrincham and Knutsford on 12 May 1862 (), then completed to Northwich on 1 January 1863 ().
Full catering would open in the summer of 1976. The site was opened for fuel at an earlier date, as the services at Knutsford and Keele were highly congested at peak times (and still are, notably the petrol at Knutsford). [2] The services originally fully opened in July 1976 and have always been operated by Roadchef. In 2004, Swiss catering ...
The Cheshire Midland Railway Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. xc) was promoted by landowners and supported by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR). The London and North Western Railway were given leave to subscribe to the undertaking but they chose not to and the MS&LR found help from Great Northern Railway (GNR) instead.
St John the Evangelist's Church is in Toft Road, Toft, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Knutsford, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester. Its benefice is combined with that of St John the Baptist, Knutsford. [1]