LOCAL AREA

Winsford is in the very heart of Cheshire.  In medieval times the largest monastery outside Westminster Abbey existed in the Parish.   

The Vale Royal Abbey was a destroyed by King Henry the Eighth at the Dissolution of the Monasteries at the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, the ruin of which can still be seen today at the Vale Royal Golf Club.  The Catholic Parish of St Joseph's was opened in 1949 and relocated to a New Church on Woodford Lane in 1977.  

Winsford is a Salt town where the only remaining Salt Mines in the U.K. It is here that Rock Salt is mined and used on the road in winter.  Thus the people of Winsford are the "Salt of the Earth!"