River Wheelock
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The River Wheelock is a small river in Cheshire in north west England.
The river drains water from the area between Sandbach and Crewe. The Wheelock joins the River Dane at Middlewich (grid reference SJ693669), and then the combined river flows into the River Weaver in Northwich.
It is called "Whelocke" in Holinshed's Chronicles of 1578 and "Hoiloch" in the Domesday Book. Its name came from a Celtic word meaning "winding" (Welsh: chwylwrch).
