RICS Chartered Surveyors Crewe Cheshire

Approximate Population: 67,683

Crewe is a town within the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683. It is twinned with Mâcon in France and Bischofsheim, near Mainz, Germany.

Crewe is perhaps best known as a large railway junction and former home to a major railway works. From 1946 until 2002 it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car production. The Pyms Lane factory on the west of the town now produces Bentley motor cars exclusively.

Until the Grand Junction Railway (GJR) company chose Crewe as the site for its locomotive works and railway station in the late 1830s, Crewe was a village with a population (c. 1831) of just 70 residents. Winsford, seven miles to the north, had rejected an earlier proposal, as had local landowners in neighbouring Nantwich, four miles away. Crewe railway station was built in fields near to Crewe Hall and was completed in 1837.

A planned redevelopment of Crewe’s town centre and main shopping area has been delayed until 2010 because of “difficult economic conditions”, according to developers Modus. There are also plans to revamp the railway station. This is pending a public consultation by Network Rail scheduled for autumn 2008. Any scheme to shift Crewe station to Basford would not start until around 2014. Plans to revamp Queens Park are already underway, with railings to be replaced by November 2008 and bridge/perimeter work on course to be completed by Wrekin by Spring 2009.

RICS Chartered Surveyors Crewe Cheshire

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