11 Facts About Alsager

Alsager is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.

Alsager has hosted an annual summer carnival since 1998; until June 2009, it was located in Milton Park, but it had since moved to the Alsager School playing fields to increase capacity, until moving back to Milton Park in 2017.

In 2008, Alsager was awarded Fairtrade Town status by the Fairtrade Foundation.

Alsager was recorded as 'Eleacier' in the Domesday Book, and was a small farming village until the 19th century when, due to its rail connections and rural character, it became a home of choice for pottery works managers from the nearby Federation of Six Towns which later became the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

The first Roman Catholic church in Alsager was one of the wooden huts and was attended mainly by the Lithuanians, most of whom were Roman Catholic.

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Alsager previously had three Methodist churches at Hassall Road, Wesley Place, and Crewe Road.

The centre moved to the university's Crewe campus when the Alsager campus closed under the title of the Axis Arts Centre, but closed in spring 2019, because of the planned withdrawal of the university from Crewe.

The Alsager Community Trust is a co-operative trust, in which all the schools in the town are members.

The MMU Alsager was home to the Contemporary Arts and Sports Science Departments of the Manchester Metropolitan University.

The 317 bus service links Alsager with Rode Heath, Sandbach and Leighton Hospital hourly and service 318 with Rode Heath and Congleton once every two hours.

Alsager is home to Borrow Pit Meadows, a local beauty spot situated in the north of the town, which leads on to the Salt line.