Portal:North West England

North West England
North West England
Region of England
	Coordinates: 54°01′00″N 2°38′00″W / 54.0167°N 2.6333°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

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North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. It is one of the three regions, alongside North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber, that make up Northern England. (Full article...)

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Widnes is an industrial town within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, with an urban area population of 57,663 in 2004. It is located on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form Runcorn Gap. Directly to the south across the Mersey is the town of Runcorn. Upstream and 8 miles (13 km) to the east is the town of Warrington, and downstream 16 miles (26 km) to the west is the city of Liverpool.

Historically part of Lancashire, prior to the Industrial Revolution Widnes consisted of a small number of separate settlements on land which was mainly marsh or moorland. In 1847 the first chemical factory was established and the town rapidly became a major centre of the chemical industry. The demand for labour was met by the immigration of large numbers of workers from Ireland, Poland, Lithuania and Wales. The town continues to be a major manufacturer of chemicals and there has been a degree of diversification of the town's industries.

Widnes lies on the southern route of the Liverpool to Manchester railway line. The main roads passing through the town are the A557 in a north-south direction and the A562 which runs east-west. The Sankey Canal (now disused) terminates in an area of the town known as Spike Island.

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Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.

Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, formulating the now widely accepted "Turing" version of the Church–Turing thesis, namely that any practical computing model has either the equivalent or a subset of the capabilities of a Turing machine. With the Turing test, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence: whether it will ever be possible to say that a machine is conscious and can think. He later worked at the National Physical Laboratory, creating one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, although it was never actually built. In 1948 he moved to the University of Manchester to work on the Manchester Mark I, then emerging as one of the world's earliest true computers.

During the Second World War Turing worked at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.

In 1952, Turing was convicted of "acts of gross indecency" after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo estrogen therapy to achieve temporary chemical castration. Turing died after eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954. His death was ruled a suicide.

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The following are images from various North West England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 2The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 3Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 4Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 5Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 6Vauxhall's plant in Ellesmere Port exports 88% of its cars, although many of the components are imported, and has made over 5 million since 1962, also making the Vectra from 1995 to 2008; it makes 686 a day (two a minute, 100,000 a year) and the latest model was designed by Mark Adams and Malcolm Ward. Three million Astras have been sold in the UK since 1979, and featured on the Top Gear test track until 2015; the production is split with the Opel Manufacturing Poland site at Gliwice in southern Poland; the Corsa is made at Opel Zaragoza in north-east Spain, with 3-door versions at Opel Eisenach; the Insignia is made at Opel Rüsselsheim (from North West England)
Image 7Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 8Cereal Partners UK (Nestlé) make Cheerios and Golden Nuggets on the A41 opposite Port Sunlight at Bromborough, also the base of CSM UK, the baking ingredients company based at a former Unilever Stork margarine site. (from North West England)
Image 9Ineos ChlorVinyls at Runcorn in 2006; the UK chemicals industry is worth £57bn, with 180,000 people in around 3,000 companies (from North West England)
Image 10Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 11Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 12Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 13Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 14The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 15Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 161939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 17The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 18Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 19A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 20Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 21ITV Granada former studios in Castlefield, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 22Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 23Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 24Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 25Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 26Heinz, although based in Hayes in Middlesex, has the largest food processing complex in Europe at a 55-acre (22 ha) site at Kitt Green in Wigan, which produces 1.4 billion cans of food each year; it is accessed to the east of the Orrell Interchange of the M6 (A577); the 38-acre Heinz NDC is next door (from North West England)
Image 27Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 28Old meets new at the Stockport Viaduct; designed by George W. Buck, it is the largest free-standing brick structure in the UK, built in 1840 when it was the largest viaduct in the world; it features in many L. S. Lowry paintings. (from North West England)
Image 29Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 30Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 31Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 32Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 33Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 34JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 35The Jodrell Bank Lovell 76-m radio telescope in Lower Withington, built in August 1957, is the world's third largest steerable telescope, and was the largest until 1971. It was designed by Sheffield's Sir Charles Husband and built of steel from Scunthorpe (from North West England)
Image 36Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 37Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 38MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 39Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 40General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 41Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 42English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 43Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 44Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 45Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 46Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 47Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 48Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 49A Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 (HS 801), built at Woodford (former Avro) and designed in Manchester in the mid-1960s, with XV148 (former Comet 4C) making its first flight on 23 May 1967, flying from Chester (Broughton, which had built many de Havilland fighter jet aircraft) to Woodford; 49 Nimrods were made for the RAF, entering service with 201 Sqn on 6 November 1970, serving until March 2010 with 38 Sqn (from North West England)
Image 50Kelloggs in Manchester, looking north along the A5181 next to GMFRS's Stretford Area Command HQ; the site is the largest producer of cereals in Europe (from North West England)
Image 51Former head office of the Girobank in Bootle; it closed in 2003; it was taken over by Alliance & Leicester in 1990; it was established in Bootle in the late 1960s with help from Hugh Baird; it was the first financial institution in Europe to be fully computerised from the start (from North West England)
Image 52JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 53Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)

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