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Lymm
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Also known as Lymm, Cheshire

Lymm ( ) is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, North West England, now in the Borough of Warrington. It incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rush Green and Statham. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, the parish comprised a population of 12,660, with the built-up area having a population of 11,545.

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Place details

Locality
Lymm
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
11,608
Timezone
Europe/London

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Key facts

UK place.country
England
UK place.official_name
Lymm
UK place.population
12,660
UK place.population_ref
(parish, 2021)
UK place.civil_parish
Lymm
UK place.unitary_england
Warrington
UK place.lieutenancy_england
Cheshire
UK place.region
North West England
UK place.constituency_westminster
Tatton
UK place.post_town
Lymm
UK place.postcode_district
WA13
UK place.postcode_area
WA
UK place.dial_code
01925
UK place.os_grid_reference
SJ685875
UK place.static_image_name
Lymm Dam and St Mary the Virgin, Lymm - geograph.org.uk - 4611886.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
St Mary's Church overlooking Lymm Dam

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Lymm ( ) is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, North West England, now in the Borough of Warrington. It incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rush Green and Statham. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, the parish comprised a population of 12,660, with the built-up area having a population of 11,545.

Situated just over a mile south of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey, historically the county boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire, Lymm's neighbouring villages are Warburton, Thelwall and High Legh. Warrington is its nearest town to the west, with Altrincham being due east and Knutsford south east.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lymm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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