Year Event
100
AD
Roman
industrial settlement built at Wilderspool
on the River Mersey
1086
Doomsday
Book describes Warrington as ‘Walintune’, a village near the ford over
the Mersey at Latchford and Howley
1277
Market
recognised by Royal Charter (Link for
more info)
1285
First
mention of a bridge over the Mersey at Warrington (link
for more info)
1364
Second
Warrington bridge completed
1495
Henry
VII opens three-arched stone bridge over the river
1617
James
I stays at Bewsey Old Hall
1648
Royalists
surrender to Cromwell during the Civil War, Cromwell stayed in Warrington
1697
Thomas
Patten makes the Mersey navigable to Bank Quay
1720
Mersey
and Irwell Navigation make the river passable between Manchester and Warrington,
completing the link to Liverpool
1750
Thomas
Patten commissions James Gibbs to build Bank Hall as residential home
1757
First
commercial canal - the Sankey St Helens - is cut
1757/86
Warrington
Academy established
1787
First
Boulton & Watt steam engine in Lancashire installed at Latchford cotton
mill
1801
Old
Quay Canal connects Howley to Runcorn, ending reliance on Mersey tides
1814
Joseph
Crosfield establishes soap works at Bank Quay (link
for more info)
1822
Old
Billy, said to be the world's oldest horse, dies aged 62 (according to
the Guinness Book of Records!)
1830
Liverpool-Manchester
railway opened near Warrington
1837
Victoria
Bridge built
1847
Warrington
becomes a borough
1848
Public Library & Museum opened
1855
The largest iron ship ever built to date - the Tayleur - launched at Bank
Quay
1872
Bank House purchased by Council to become Town Hall
1894
Manchester Ship Canal built south of Warrington
1895
Town Hall Gates purchased (link for photograph)
1913/15
Present Warrington bridge - one of the world's first pre-stressed concrete
bridges - built
1942/93
RAF Burtonwood site of USAF base.(link
for more info)
RAF
Burtonwood, Association Home Page & Base history. (See useful links
pages for more info)
1963
Thelwall viaduct on M6 built
1974
Local government changes move Warrington's administration from Lancashire
to Cheshire
1998
Warrington becomes a Unitary Authority taking responsibilities from Cheshire
County Council
1998
Town Hall Gates illuminated for the first time
AND
THE MOST IMPORTANT DATE.! JUNE 2000 THE YEAR THIS SITE WAS PUBLISHED
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