Lower Peover is a village in the civil parish of Nether Peover[1] in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, approximately 6 miles east of Northwich and 4 miles south of Knutsford. The boundary of the civil parish deviates slightly to include Lower Peover in Nether Peover and not the adjacent civil parish of Peover Inferior.[1] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 415.[2]
Lower Peover | |
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St. Oswald's Church, Lower Peover | |
Location within Cheshire | |
OS grid reference | SJ743741 |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | KNUTSFORD |
Postcode district | WA16 |
Dialling code | 01565 |
Police | Cheshire |
Fire | Cheshire |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
Lower Peover was also where George S. Patton held meetings with the senior members of the British war cabinet where they discussed plans about many military operations, most notably D-day.
See also
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edit- ^ a b Ordnance Survey (2004). SJ 742 741 (British national grid reference system)
- ^ "Nether Peover parish population 2011". Retrieved 30 May 2015.
References
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Lower Peover.
- Ordnance Survey (2004), OS Explorer Map 257: Northwich & Delamere Forest, Southampton, United Kingdom: Ordnance Survey, ISBN 0-319-23567-X