Other planned developments in Warrington were delayed by the economic climate, but redevelopment of the Time Square area, including a new Market, multi-story car park with around 1,200 spaces, cinema, retail outlets and council offices is expected to be completed by 2020 with an estimated cost of £142 million.
The modern Borough of Warrington was formed in 1974 with the amalgamation of the former County Borough of Warrington, part of the Golborne Urban District, the Lymm Urban District, part of the Runcorn Rural District, the Warrington Rural District and part of the Whiston Rural District. They also reached the Grand Final again in 2013, 2016 and 2018, losing to Wigan Warriors on all occasions, Warrington's last domestic title came in 1955, when they beat Oldham at Manchester City's Maine Road. [11] The Territorial Army was based at the Bath Street drill hall until they moved to Peninsula Barracks. The expansion and urbanisation of Warrington largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution, particularly after the Mersey was made navigable in the 18th century.
The River Mersey runs through the heart of the town dividing it in two. Bank Quay is much altered, but Central (built 1873) is of some architectural merit, featuring polychromatic brickwork. Lobbying by the borough council averted this.
By the Middle Ages, Warrington had emerged as a market town at the lowest bridging point of the river. In 2011, the town was 92.9% White British, 2.3% other White, 2.4% Asian and 0.3% Black. [47] They hold an AM licence and have received planning permission for a transmitter, though their broadcasts are currently only available online.
Published weekly and costing £1, it is currently owned by Newsquest and has sales of just over 17,000.
Rain is spread across the year, with thunderstorms only usually occurring in the summer months. Poulton-with-Fearnhead (includes Padgate), Rixton-with-Glazebrook, Stockton Heath, Stretton,
In March 2017 Warrington Borough Council made an unsuccessful bid to become the UK City of Culture in 2021. Warrington is within a green belt region that extends into the wider surrounding counties, and is in place to reduce urban sprawl, prevent the towns in the nearby Manchester and Merseyside conurbations from further convergence, protect the identity of outlying communities, encourage brownfield reuse, and preserve nearby countryside.
[35], A heritage centre for the village of Lymm was given planning permission in February 2016. After the May 2016 election the political makeup of the borough council was as follows: 45 Labour councillors, 11 Liberal Democrat, 2 Conservative.[17]. Included in the plans are a new "Garden City Suburb" in the south of Warrington. At the 2011 census, Warrington had a total population of 202,200, of which 49.6% are male and 50.4% are female. Summers are usually snow free and rarely experience high winds. On 13 August 1651 Warrington was the scene of the last Royalist victory of the civil war when Scots troops under Charles II and David Leslie, Lord Newark, fought Parliamentarians under John Lambert at the Battle of Warrington Bridge.
A subsidiary aim of the green belt is to encourage recreation and leisure interests,[19] with rural landscape features and facilities including Walton Hall gardens with zoo and bicycle museum, St Oswald's Church and well, the River Mersey with valley and trail, River Bollin, Manchester Ship Canal, Bridgewater Canal, Appleton Reservoir, numerous playing fields, parks and golf clubs, Cuerdley and Norton marshes, the Trans Pennine Trail, the Mersey Forest project, and Sow Brook.
[45], Rowing in Warrington may well have been taking place for nearly 200 years. Before the M6 was built, these routes were very busy with through traffic. Warrington has a temperate maritime climate with warm summers and cool winters.
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The bus station is the terminus for all local bus services within Warrington. In 2019, Warrington triumphed over St Helens in the Challenge Cup Final, 18-4, to lift the trophy for the 7th time.
[10], There was a RAF training camp at Padgate, a Royal Naval air base at Appleton Thorn (RNAS Stretton) and an army base at the Peninsula Barracks in O'Leary Street.
The Manchester Ship Canal cuts through the south of the borough (west to east). Warrington has a population density of 10.7 residents per hectare, and 31.9% of residents describe the borough as a comfortably well-off area. 31.1% of the total population are economically inactive (due to retirement, ill health, or full-time carer status).
Warrington is twinned with Hilden, Germany and Nachod, Czech Republic. [27] The town also has several other small shopping malls located in the town centre and throughout the town such as Hatters Row and Birchwood Mall.
There are 14 high schools throughout the borough: There are also 69 primary schools in the borough.
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Warrington Council and Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are major employers in the borough. When the age of steam came, Warrington naturally welcomed it, both as a means of transport and as a source of power for its mills. Regular classical recitals also take place at Walton Hall and St Wilfrid's Church, Grappenhall. In 2017, Warrington made an unsuccessful bid to become UK City of Culture for 2021, failing to make the shortlist.[15][16]. [38] This charity is also responsible for the biennial Warrington Competition for Young Musicians, held at Arley Hall.