Handforth
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Handforth is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, south of Manchester city centre. The population of the parish was 6,715 at the 2021 census. In the 1960s and 1970s, two overspill housing estates, Spath Lane in Handforth, and Colshaw Farm nearby in Wilmslow, were built to re-house people from inner city Manchester. It lies between Wilmslow, Heald Green, and Styal, and forms part of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area.
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- UK place.official_name
- Handforth
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- The Peter Herd 'Deli' in the Handforth Precinct - geograph.org.uk - 1534933.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Paddock (Handforth Precinct)
- UK place.population_ref
- 6,715 (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Handforth
- UK place.unitary_england
- Cheshire East
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cheshire
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Tatton
- UK place.post_town
- WILMSLOW
- UK place.postcode_district
- SK9
- UK place.postcode_area
- SK
- UK place.dial_code
- 01625
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ8583
- UK place.mapframe
- yes
- UK place.mapframe zoom
- 12
- UK place.mapframe point
- none
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 6266
- Image
- The Peter Herd 'Deli' in the Handforth Precinct - geograph.org.uk - 1534933.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01625
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- Commons category
- Handforth
- OS grid reference
- SJ8583
- postal code
- SK9
- P12749
- Matthias Claudius
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Handforth is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, south of Manchester city centre. The population of the parish was 6,715 at the 2021 census. In the 1960s and 1970s, two overspill housing estates, Spath Lane in Handforth, and Colshaw Farm nearby in Wilmslow, were built to re-house people from inner city Manchester. It lies between Wilmslow, Heald Green, and Styal, and forms part of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area.
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