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Alsager occurs as town inside Cheshire, England, to the north-west of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and east of the railway town of Crewe. the town has a people of 12,578 (2001 census), and is administered by Congleton Borough Council.
Alsager is placed at (53.Chiliad,
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In the centre of Alsager occurs as flow of any stream known as [http://www.rmcybernetics.com/research/alsager_mere/alsager_mere.htm Alsager Mere]. This isolated pool is accesable by local residents whom use gardens ajoining by owning the waters, & by a little public viewing vicinity.
Transport
Alsager is remove junction Xvi of the M6, and is too served per local Crewe to Bowler railway service.
A Trent and Mersey Canal runs just in a north-east to the town, forming a portion of the Cheshire Ring Canal Hike & the South Cheshire Way footpath. A canal's towing path & a nearby 'Salt Line' come too national routes of the National Cycle Network. Regional Route 70 lives to the west of the town.
Education
Alsager is at home to the Art & Design Dept. of the Manchester Metropolitan University, and occurs as campus town. A University absorbed a previous Crewe & Alsager College of Higher Education. There exists an Alsager Arts Centre, showing contemporary act.
Sport
Alsager is personal to Alsager Town F.C. and Alsager Cricket Club
History
A [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=5522 Church Lawton Barrows] form the portion of a important Bronze Age site near a town. Alsager ('Eleacier' in the Domesday Book) was a little agrarian village until a 19th century when due to its rail connections & rural character, it became the house of selection for pottery works managers from a nearby city of Stoke-in-Trent. In the period of The Second World War a large armaments factory was built outside the town at Radway Green, and it was expanded dramatically to home a inflow of mill-hand.
A churches come [http://www.christchurch-alsager.org.uk/ Christ Church] (1789), and St. Mary Magdalene (1898).
Nearby is the historic Rode Hall and gardens.
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