17 Facts About Knutsford

Knutsford is a market town in the borough of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England.

Knutsford is 14 miles south-west of Manchester, 9 miles north-west of Macclesfield and 12.

Knutsford is near Cheshire's Golden Triangle, and on the Cheshire Plain between the Peak District to the east and the Welsh mountains to the west.

Knutsford, situated in Cheshire, England, was recorded in the William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086 as Cunetesford.

Knutsford was the place in which General George S Patton, shortly before the Normandy invasion, delivered a speech perceived to be critical of the Soviets, and to have "slap the face of every one of the United Nations except Great Britain", which nearly ended his career.

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In 2005 Knutsford was named as the most expensive town to buy a house in Northern England, followed by nearby town Altrincham.

Knutsford has been under the unitary council of Cheshire East since April 2009.

Knutsford has excellent access to the motorway network, with junctions to the M6 and M56 motorways.

Knutsford was expected to get a half-hourly train services to Northwich and Manchester by December 2017, with an increase in the Sunday frequency to hourly, but the promised additional services have failed to materialise.

Since April 2018, bus service cutbacks has left Knutsford with just one regular bus route; this is an hourly Altrincham-Wilmslow-Knutsford service, with most continuing to either Macclesfield or Northwich, operating Monday to Saturdays only.

Star Line Travel's Knutsford depot closed, which made running bus routes in Knutsford an unattractive proposition for Arriva, who ceased to serve the town in January 2009.

Knutsford has a medium-sized supermarket, Booths, an Aldi, a Little Waitrose, a Sainsbury's Local, Olive and Sage.

Barclays has a large campus site at Radbroke Hall on Toft Road just outside Knutsford, employing approximately 3000 staff in IT and support functions.

Knutsford Guardian, established in 1860, is the only weekly paid-for paper dedicated to covering the town and its surrounding villages.

Knutsford lived in the town for some time, on what is known as Gaskell Avenue, and she is buried in the Unitarian Chapel graveyard.

Notably, in 1987 Legh Road in Knutsford, designed by Richard Harding Watt, doubled for Colonial Shanghai in the opening scenes from Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun.

Knutsford Heritage Centre is situated in a 17th-century timber-framed building just off King Street, which was a blacksmith's forge in the 19th century.