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On 7 January 2009 the country was sufferring the coldest for 7 years. Temperatures dipped to -11 degrees C the queue to this point is 2.5km in length, not including the many lorries waiting inside the mine perimeter to be loaded with rock salt. Photograph is looking up Bradford Road with the River Weaver to the east.
©Andrew Fielding
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Popular fishing spot on the Weaver
©Galatas
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The Red Lion pub stands on the bank of the river Weaver
©Galatas
Dist:0.2km north<br/>At the end of High Street, Winsford road signs direct traffic from the roundabout that crosses the River Weaver to the Meadowbank Mine on Bradford Road.
©Andrew Fielding
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Welcome to Winsford, the calligraphic capital of Cheshire.
©michael ely
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The Ark public house
©Galatas
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Police segregate waiting salt lorries from regular traffic as queueing lorries from all over the country join the 2.5km queue extending from the Salt Union rock salt mine on Bradford Road [SJ6568] up Winsford High Street at noon on Wednesday 7th January 2009. The coldest start to a New Year for over seven years.
©Andrew Fielding
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This is the start/finish of the Whitegate Way, a permissive recreational route for walkers, horse riders and cyclists. It follows the line of an old salt-carrying railway line between Winsford and Cuddington (near Delamere Forest) that operated for almost one hundred years before closing in 1966. Here there is a car park off Bradford Road with a vandalized interpretation board. The sign to the left of shot marking the terminus appears to be one of the old station platform signs suitably annotated.
©michael ely
Dist:0.6km west<br/>Winsford fire station, Sadler Road, Winsford, Cheshire.
©Kevin Hale
Dist:0.8km east<br/>Crook Lane, Wharton, Winsford.
©Graham Shaw
Dist:0.8km east<br/>Crook Lane, Wharton, Winsford.
©Graham Shaw
Dist:0.8km east<br/>
©Graham Shaw
Dist:0.8km west<br/>Part of the shopping centre to the south of the High Street.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.8km west<br/>Another store bites the dust - Ethel Austin closing down sale has started.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.8km west<br/>
©Eirian Evans

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