Crewe
What to See
You’ll find accounts of Crewe’s tourist attractions in Towns of Two Halves (and of 91 other places: order the book now for £8 from info@townsof2halves.co.uk).
Links to local points of interest include:
● Crewe Heritage Centre
● Englesea Brook Museum of Primitive Methodism
● Lakemore Farm Park
● Queens Park
● Wheelock Hall Farm
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “It appears as Creu in the Domesday Book, from an Old Welsh word meaning ‘crossing’.
What’s the Old Welsh for ‘level crossing’?“
● “Let’s make a day of it. What else is there to do in Crewe?
Apart from change trains, you mean?
Is that what most people do there?
About half of them. In 2014-15, 2.7m people used Crewe station; 1.3m of them were classified as ‘interchanges’.“
● “And if your connection is delayed? What is there to look at in Crewe for an hour or so?
Crewe Heritage Centre, although paradoxically the intersection of six main railway lines makes it slightly difficult to find your way there from the railway station.
Isn’t there a train?
There are trains aplenty on display, but none to deliver visitors from the station. Persist. It’s not a long walk and it’s an appropriately fine collection for a railway town. It certainly isn’t just for railway buffs.
So I should leave my anorak at home?
Carry it with you. You’ll be uncomfortable without it.“
These are taken from the Crewe chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To order a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.