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Frodsham
Frodsham is a market community, civil parish and also electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and also the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Its population was 8,982 in 2001, enhancing to 9,077 at the 2011 Census. It is approximately 3 miles (5 kilometres) south of Runcorn, 16 miles (26 kilometres) south of Liverpool, as well as 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Manchester. The River Weaver runs to its northeast as well as on the west it overlooks the tidewater of the River Mersey. The A56 road as well as the Chester-- Manchester railway line travel through the community, as well as the M56 freeway passes to the northwest. In middle ages times Frodsham was an essential district and port belonging to the Earls of Chester. Its parish church, St. Laurence's, still shows proof of a building present in the 12th century in its nave as well as is referenced in Domesday Book. A market is held each Thursday, as well as Frodsham's feasibility as a trading centre was stressed by the visibility of the "big five" removing financial institutions and also a number of building societies, though the branches of HSBC as well as NatWest have actually just recently shut. Growth in the community's stores and premises with alcohol permits appears through the current (post-2002) opening or modernisation of contemporary-style bar/restaurants, take-away food stores and public houses, and also in the proceeded visibility of little, specialist, businesses running from town-centre shops.