Daresbury

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Daresbury
Daresbury shown within Cheshire
Population	216 (Parish), 3,906 (Ward)[1]
OS grid reference	SJ5881
Unitary authority	Halton
Ceremonial county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Warrington
Postcode district	WA4
Dialling code	01925
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
European Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Weaver Vale
List of places: UK • England • Cheshire

Coordinates: 53°20′24″N 2°37′55″W / 53.34, -2.6319

Daresbury is a civil parish and a small rural village in the unitary authority of Halton in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is covered by the Weaver Vale constituency.

The most notable attributes of Daresbury are that it was the birthplace (some 1.5 miles south of the village) of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson), and that the Science and Technology Facilities Council Daresbury Laboratory have a synchrotron research facility called the Synchrotron Radiation Source.

Controversy arose in the late 1990s when Diamond, a new synchrotron light source planned for installation at the Laboratory, went instead to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Didcot in Oxfordshire.

Daresbury has become a place of pilgrimage because of the Lewis Carroll association. The parish church has a Lewis Carroll window.

In 2006, the annual Creamfields dance festival was held in Daresbury after relocating from the disused Liverpool airport site it had occupied for 6 consecutive years previously. This saw 40,000 revellers partying from 3pm-6am to a line-up that included live performances from The Prodigy and Zutons, as well as DJ sets from the likes of Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, 2 Many DJ's, Green Velvet and DJ Shadow. It is anticipated that this will be an annual occurrence in the village.

Daresbury is also an electoral ward. However, the boundary of the ward is different from (and larger than) the parish boundary, and includes the parishes of Moore, Halton and Preston Brook.

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[edit] See also

• Listed buildings in Daresbury, Cheshire
• All Saints' Church, Daresbury

[edit] External links

• Daresbury Laboratory: Facilities and services
• Daresbury Village
• All Saints Church, Daresbury

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