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©Bob Harvey
Sandbach has been a market town since the 16th century. Nowadays the Thursday market is still held outdoors and is sited around the Town Hall and on "Scotch Common".
©Dennis Thorley
Two 9th century stone crosses, decorated on all faces with carved figures, animals and vine scrolls. The taller cross shows biblical scenes and has a mutiliated head. The shorter cross has a truncated shaft with the mutilated head of another cross. They were taken from their original site and broken up. The fragments were eventually restored to their present site in 1816. The style and themes of the sculpture indicate contact with the wider Anglo-Saxon world, suggesting Sandbach was a significant centre of pre-Viking sculpture in the 9th century. See http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=11101 for additional information.
©Dennis Thorley
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.3km<br/>Formerly an independent boys' school, now a comprehensive and arts college.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km<br/>The supermarket was built as infill development at the same time as (or shortly after) the Sandbach inner relief road. It was originally Safeway, then Morrisons and finally Waitrose.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.4km<br/>"Olde Worlde" buildings near the memorial in Sandbach
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Formerly the Town Hall, Built in 1889, designed by Thomas Bower of Nantwich (from Pevsner).
©Humphrey Bolton
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Providence School 1859. Note the separate entrances for boys and girls.
©Margaret Sutton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking east across the Cheshire Plain; the northern outskirts of Crewe are at the right of the picture.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The sign dates from before traffic lights were installed at the junction ahead. Nobody has bothered to move it to a more appropriate position nearer the roundabout to which it refers.
©Whatlep
Dist:0.4km<br/>A timber-framed building dated 1656 (from Pevsner). The 1909 OS 1:2500 map shows it to have been two buildings, the left-hand one being an inn at that time.
©Humphrey Bolton

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