Knutsford

Knutsford

      town (parish), Macclesfield borough, administrative and historic county of Cheshire, England. It is located on the Cheshire Plain southwest of the city of Manchester. Knutsford received a market, free burgage (tenure from the crown), and power to elect a mayor from a charter of 1292, and a charter in 1332 provided for fairs on certain festival days. The Heath—about 30 acres (12 hectares) of common land—is still the site of the annual May Day festival. The principal shopping streets, King Street and Princess Street, contain buildings of historical and architectural interest. The 19th-century British writer Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell took Knutsford as the original for her novel Cranford (1853).

      The modern town is predominantly residential, with some industry, including a paper works, sawmills, and nuclear-energy design laboratories. The internationally important Manchester Airport at Ringway is 5 miles (8 km) to the northeast. Pop. (2001) 12,656.

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