Frodsham
Frodsham is a market community, civil parish as well as selecting ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and also Chester and also the ritualistic county of Cheshire, England. Its population was 8,982 in 2001, enhancing to 9,077 at the 2011 Census. It is about 3 miles (5 km) south of Runcorn, 16 miles (26 km) south of Liverpool, and 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Manchester. The River Weaver runs to its northeast and also on the west it overlooks the tidewater of the River Mersey. The A56 roadway and the Chester-- Manchester railway line travel through the town, and the M56 motorway passes to the northwest. In middle ages times Frodsham was a crucial borough and also port coming from the Earls of Chester. Its parish church, St. Laurence's, still exhibits proof of a building existing in the 12th century in its nave and also is referenced in Domesday Book. A market is held each Thursday, and also Frodsham's stability as a trading centre was stressed by the visibility of the "big five" clearing banks as well as several building societies, though the branches of HSBC as well as NatWest have lately shut. Development in the town's stores and properties with alcohol licences appears via the recent (post-2002) opening or modernisation of contemporary-style bar/restaurants, take-away food stores and also hostelries, and in the continued presence of small, specialist, services operating from town-centre shops.