Editing Alsager

{{Short description|Town and civil parish in Cheshire, England}}
{{distinguish|Alsagers Bank}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
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|country = England
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|static_image_caption = Town centre
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|population_ref           = 13,389 (Parish, 2021)<ref>{{cite web |title=Alsager parish |url=https://citypopulation.de/en/uk/northwestengland/admin/cheshire_east/E04010894__alsager/ |website=City Population |access-date=17 January 2025}}</ref><br>{{nowrap|15,505 (Built up area, 2021)<ref>{{cite web |title=Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021 |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/townsandcitiescharacteristicsofbuiltupareasenglandandwales/census2021 |website=Census 2021 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=8 August 2023}}</ref>}}
|civil_parish = Alsager
|unitary_england = [[Cheshire East]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[Cheshire]]
|region = North West England
|constituency_westminster = [[Congleton (UK Parliament constituency)|Congleton]]
|post_town = STOKE-ON-TRENT
|postcode_district = ST7
|postcode_area = ST
|dial_code = 01270
|os_grid_reference = SJ796554
|london_distance = 144&nbsp;mi&nbsp;(231&nbsp;km)&nbsp;[[Boxing the compass|SE]]
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'''Alsager ''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɔː|l|s|eɪ|dʒ|ər}} {{respell|AWL|say|jər}}) is a town and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the unitary authority of [[Cheshire East]] in [[Cheshire]], England. It is located to the north-west of [[Stoke-on-Trent]] and east of [[Crewe]]. At the [[United Kingdom 2021 Census|2021 census]], the parish had a population of 13,389 and the built up area population was 15,505.

The civil parish is bordered by the parishes of [[Betchton]] to the north, [[Church Lawton]] to the north-east and east, [[Kidsgrove]] to the south-east, [[Audley Rural]] to the south, [[Barthomley]] to the south-west, [[Haslington]] to the west, and [[Hassall]] to the north-west.

Alsager has hosted an annual summer carnival since 1998; it was located in Milton Park until June 2009 and moved temporarily to the [[Alsager School]] playing fields to increase capacity, before returning in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |work=Alsager.com |title=Alsager Carnival |date=28 May 2012 |access-date=10 May 2013 |url= http://www.alsager.com/tour/carnival.htm |quote=}}</ref> In 2008, Alsager was awarded [[Fairtrade Town]] status by the [[Fairtrade Foundation]].

==History==
[[File:Christ Church Alsager, Sep 2023.jpg|left|thumb|[[Christ Church, Alsager]]]]
In the village of [[Church Lawton]] are the Church Lawton Barrows, which form part of a significant [[Bronze Age]] site near the town.<ref>[http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=5522 Church Lawton Barrows.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041115085655/http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=5522 |date=15 November 2004 }} Retrieval Date: 10 August 2007.</ref>

The town's name means 'the arable land of a person named Ælle ([[Old English]]: ''Ælles æċer'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Cheshire/Alsager|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk|access-date=14 July 2021|archive-date=14 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714063426/https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js|url-status=live}}</ref>

Alsager was recorded as 'Eleacier' in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, and was a small farming village until the 19th century when, due to its rail connections and rural character, it became a home of choice for [[pottery]] works managers from the nearby Federation of Six Towns which later became the city of [[Stoke-on-Trent]].<ref>Scholes, R. (2000) ''Towns and villages of Britain: Cheshire.'' Sigma Press: Wilmslow, Cheshire. {{ISBN|1-85058-637-3}}.</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], a large [[Munitions|armaments]] factory was built outside Alsager at [[ROF Radway Green|Radway Green]], and the town expanded dramatically to house the influx of factory workers. Also during the war a camp was constructed for the training of [[Royal Marines]]. This bore the name of HMS ''Excalibur'' and was situated at the top of Fields Road by the side of the Stoke to Crewe railway line. In 1948 it became a [[Displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe|displaced persons camp]] for refugees from [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]] and the former [[Poland|Polish]] [[Ukraine]], countries which had been forcibly incorporated into the [[Soviet Union]]. Many men from these countries had fought on the side of the Germans to try to regain independence, and they were afraid to return to their countries of origin, as many who had returned were executed by the Russians. A school was set up for the education of their children whose only common language when they arrived was German. The school continued to exist for many years in the same set of wooden huts under the name "Excalibur School". The first Roman Catholic church in Alsager was one of the wooden huts and was attended mainly by the Lithuanians, most of whom were Roman Catholic. The Anglican churches are [[Christ Church, Alsager|Christ Church]] (1789),<ref>[http://www.christchurch-alsager.org.uk/ Christ Church.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051218094457/http://www.christchurch-alsager.org.uk/ |date=18 December 2005 }} Retrieval Date: 10 August 2007.</ref> and [[St Mary Magdalene's Church, Alsager|St Mary Magdalene]] (1898).<ref>[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/alsager-st-mary-magdalene/ St Mary Magdalene – A Church Near You – website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823231356/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/alsager-st-mary-magdalene/ |date=23 August 2010 }} Retrieval Date: 19 January 2009.</ref>

Alsager previously had three Methodist churches at Hassall Road (Wesleyan), Wesley Place (Wesleyan) and Crewe Road (Primitive Methodist). By December 2009 two Methodist churches remained, but today there is just one.<ref>[http://www.wesley-place.org.uk/ Wesley Place Methodist Church Alsager website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627045150/http://www.wesley-place.org.uk/ |date=27 June 2007 }} Retrieval Date: 10 August 2007.</ref>

The Roman Catholic community is served from St Gabriel's Church. The parish is located in the [[Diocese of Shrewsbury]] (Central Cheshire Region&nbsp;– Local Pastoral Area 9).{{-}}

==Governance==
[[File:The refurbished Alsager Civic Centre - geograph.org.uk - 4230604.jpg|thumb|Alsager Civic]]
There are two tiers of local government covering Alsager, at parish (town) and [[Unitary authorities of England|unitary authority]] level: Alsager Town Council and [[Cheshire East Council]]. The town council meets at Alsager Civic on Lawton Road.<ref>{{cite web |title=Town Council |url=https://www.alsagertowncouncil.gov.uk/towncouncil/ |website=Alsager Town Council |access-date=17 January 2025}}</ref>

===Administrative history===
Alsager was historically a [[Township (England)|township]] within the [[ancient parish]] of [[Barthomley]], which formed part of the [[Nantwich]] [[Hundred (county division)|hundred]] of Cheshire.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alsager Township / Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10060953#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=17 January 2025}}</ref> From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the [[poor laws]], in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Barthomley, the civil functions were exercised by each township separately rather than the parish as a whole. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Alsager became a [[civil parish]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Youngs |first1=Frederic |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England |date=1979 |publisher=Royal Historical Society |location=London |isbn=0901050679 |page=xvi}}</ref> Alsager subsequently also became a separate [[ecclesiastical parish]] from Barthomley in 1898 following the completion of St Mary Magdalene's Church. (The earlier Christ Church at Alsager had been a [[chapel of ease]] to St Bertoline's at Barthomley.)<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26988|page=4367|date=19 July 1898}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=St Mary Magdalene, Alsager |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/alsager/StMaryMagdelene |website=GENUKI |access-date=17 January 2025}}</ref>

In 1894, Alsager was made a [[Local board of health#Local Government Act 1858|local government district]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Local Government Board |date=1894 |page=295 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Annual_Report/MKAaAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA295&printsec=frontcover |access-date=17 January 2025}}</ref> Later that year, local government districts were reconstituted as [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban districts]] under the [[Local Government Act 1894]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Alsager Urban District |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10067807#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=17 January 2025}}</ref>

Alsager Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]]. A [[successor parish]] called Alsager was established covering area of the abolished urban district, with its parish council taking the name Alsager Town Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Successor Parishes) Order 1973|year=1973|number=1110|access-date=1 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Alsager Urban District Council |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/c59185dc-22e2-454c-a97b-f9f844814cb7 |website=Discovery |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=17 January 2025}}</ref> District-level functions passed to [[Congleton Borough Council]]. In 2009, Cheshire East Council was created, taking over the functions of the borough council and [[Cheshire County Council]], which were both abolished.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008|year=2008|number=634|access-date=8 May 2024}}</ref>

==Culture==
The town is home to Alsager Community Theatre (ACT),<ref>[http://www.alsagercommunitytheatre.org.uk/ Alsager Community Theatre.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406044254/http://www.alsagercommunitytheatre.org.uk/ |date=6 April 2011 }} Retrieval Date: 20 April 2011.</ref> an amateur drama group founded in 1973. ACT puts on its productions at Alsager Civic Centre and at nearby [[Little Moreton Hall]].

Alsager Arts Centre, formerly housed on [[Manchester Metropolitan University]]'s Alsager campus, had a public programme of touring new performances and visual art work presented in two seasons (September–November and January–March). The centre moved to the university's [[Crewe]] campus when the Alsager campus closed<ref>[http://www.alsagerartscentre.org.uk/ Alsager Arts Centre website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121061828/http://www.alsagerartscentre.org.uk/ |date=21 November 2008 }} Retrieval Date: 10 August 2007.</ref> under the title of the Axis Arts Centre but it was closed in spring 2019 because of the planned withdrawal of the university from Crewe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neil Mackenzie |date=Spring 2019 |title=Spring Season 2019 – Welcome and goodbye! |url=http://www.axisartscentre.org.uk/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509180544/http://www.axisartscentre.org.uk/ |archive-date=9 May 2019 |access-date=9 May 2019 |publisher=Axis Arts Centre}}</ref> The Arts Centre hosted performance companies such as [[Forced Entertainment]] and artists such as [[Bobby Baker (artist)|Bobby Baker]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Alsager hosts the annual Alsager Music Festival which takes place in Milton Gardens.<ref>[http://alsagermusicfestival.co.uk/ Alsager Music Festival website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716190221/http://alsagermusicfestival.co.uk/ |date=16 July 2013 }} Retrieval Date: 10 May 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Town's annual music festival|date=19 July 2024|newspaper=[[Congleton Chronicle]]|page=17}}</ref> In August 2010, Alsager hosted the first annual Alsager Arts Festival.<ref>[http://www.alsagerfestival.com/ Alsager Festival website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824055245/http://www.alsagerfestival.com/ |date=24 August 2010 }} Retrieval Date: 3 June 2010.</ref>

==Education==

===Schools===
Public education, at primary and secondary school level, is managed by [[Cheshire East|Cheshire East Council]] and the [[Alsager Community Trust]]. The Alsager Community Trust is a co-operative trust, in which all the schools in the town are members. Secondary education is provided by [[Alsager School]], an [[Academy (English school)|Academy school]], that is situated opposite the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus. It is attended by over 1,300 pupils<ref name="Alsager School website">[http://www.alsagerschool.co.uk/ Alsager School website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509173005/http://www.alsagerschool.co.uk/ |date=9 May 2008 }} Retrieval Date: 10 August 2007.</ref> between the ages of 11 and 18. Alsager School is a [[Business and Enterprise College]].<ref name="Alsager School website" />

Six primary schools feed into Alsager School: Alsager Highfields, Cranberry Academy, Excalibur Primary School, Pikemere School, Rode Heath School and St Gabriel's R.C. Primary School.

===Former Manchester Metropolitan University===
[[File:MMU Cheshire Alsager.JPG|thumb|The former Alsager campus of Manchester Metropolitan University, long since closed and demolished]]
During the Second World War a hostel built of wooden army huts was constructed on the site of the MMU to house workers at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green, and was called "Heathside". In 1945 it became "Alsager Training College" for the training of teachers which were in short supply at that time. The wooden huts were still in use for housing of students until the early 1960s.
The MMU Alsager was home to the Contemporary Arts and Sports Science Departments of the [[Manchester Metropolitan University]]. The University absorbed the former Crewe & Alsager College of Higher Education, forming the Crewe and Alsager Faculty, subsequently renamed MMU Cheshire. The Alsager Arts Centre was also on campus, and promoted touring contemporary dance, music, theatre, live art, performance writing and visual art events to the public as well as members of the University community.

In 2006 the university started transferring staff and departments from Alsager to the Crewe campus, as part of plans for closure of the Alsager site.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 November 2009 |title=Job cuts planned at MMU Cheshire |url=http://beta.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Fight-save-campus-jobs/article-1522322-detail/article.html |access-date=3 June 2010 |website=The Sentinel}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Arts Centre also moved to the MMU campus in Crewe, and was renamed the Axis Arts Centre.<ref>[http://www.axisartscentre.org.uk/cms/page.php?page=about Axis Arts Centre website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322213332/http://www.axisartscentre.org.uk/cms/page.php?page=about |date=22 March 2010 }}</ref> As of 2012 the entire Alsager campus had long since closed and fallen into disrepair.

In 2015 the former campus on Hassall Road was earmarked for a total of 408 new houses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/application-build-408-homes-former-10457636|title=Application to build 408 homes on former MMU campus in Alsager|first=Belinda|last=Ryan|date=17 November 2015|website=crewechronicle|access-date=14 July 2021|archive-date=14 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414154035/https://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/application-build-408-homes-former-10457636|url-status=live}}</ref> By early 2018 all of the campus buildings had been demolished and the site cleared. Soon afterwards, construction of a new housing estate named "Scholar's Place" commenced on the site of the former Alsager campus.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

==Transport==
[[File:Along platform 1, Alsager railway station (geograph 4524963).jpg|thumb|Alsager station]]

Alsager is close to junction 16 of the [[M6 motorway]].

The town is served by [[Alsager railway station]], with [[East Midlands Railway]] services on the [[Crewe to Derby line]]<ref> {{Cite web |work=East Midlands Railway |title=Timetables |date=2 June 2024 |access-date=20 July 2024 |url= https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/timetables |quote=}}</ref> and [[West Midlands Trains]] services from [[Crewe railway station|Crewe]] to [[Stafford railway station|Stafford]];<ref> {{Cite web |work=West Midlands Railway |title=Train Timetables and Schedules|date=2 June 2024 |access-date=20 July 2024 |url= https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/travel-information/journey-planning/timetables |quote=}}</ref> both operate hourly during weekday off-peak times. 

Local bus services are provided by [[First Potteries]] and [[D&G Bus]]. Key routes include:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stops in Alsager |work=Bus Times |date=2024 |access-date=20 July 2024 |url=https://bustimes.org/localities/alsager |quote=}}</ref>
* 103 to [[Crewe]] and [[Hanley, Staffordshire|Hanley]] every 30 minutes. 
* 317 to [[Rode Heath]], [[Sandbach]] and [[Leighton Hospital]] hourly
* 318 to Rode Heath and [[Congleton]] once every two hours.

The [[Trent and Mersey Canal]] runs just to the north-east to the town, forming part of the [[Cheshire Ring]] canal walk and the [[South Cheshire Way]] footpath. The canal's towpath and the nearby ''Salt Line'' are also routes of the [[National Cycle Network]].

==Media==
Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC North West]] and [[ITV Granada]].  Television signals are received from the [[Winter Hill transmitting station|Winter Hill]] TV transmitter.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Winter_Hill |title=Full Freeview on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter |date=May 2004 |publisher=UK Free TV |access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref> Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Stoke]], [[Hits Radio Staffordshire & Cheshire]], [[Greatest Hits Radio Staffordshire & Cheshire]], [[The Hitmix|HitMix Radio]], and [[Silk 106.9]]. The town's local newspapers are the ''[[Congleton Chronicle|Alsager Chronicle]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-nw/alsager-chronicle/|title=Alsager Chronicle|date=8 October 2013|website=British Papers|accessdate=26 November 2023}}</ref> and ''[[The Sentinel (Staffordshire)|The Sentinel]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-wmids/stoke-sentinel/|title=The Sentinel|date=22 September 2013|website=British Papers|accessdate=26 November 2023}}</ref>

==Economy==
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[[File:Alsager - Asda supermarket - Apr 2025.jpg|thumb|Asda supermarket in Alsager]]
Alsager town centre is characterised by independent and charity shops. The only [[List of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom|national chain supermarkets]] in the town are a medium-sized [[Asda]] supermarket, a medium-sized [[Sainsbury's]] with a petrol station and a [[Sainsbury's Local]].

There is a [[BAE Systems Global Combat Systems]] [[ROF Radway Green|factory]] in the nearby village of Radway Green, producing [[small arms]] ammunition for the British armed forces.

===Developments===

Between 2012 and 2021 Alsager town centre has been redeveloped somewhat:[[The Co-operative Food]] store was rebuilt and enlarged in 2012, but it was sold off and converted to an Asda supermarket in 2015. A Town Square has been created, Fairview park has been rebuilt and capacity at Fairview Car park has been increased. In April 2014 [[Cheshire East Council]] gave planning permission for the development of a new [[Sainsbury's]] store on the former [[Twyfords]] site off Lawton Road.<ref>[http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Alsager-businesses-lose-fight-stop-Sainsbury-8217/story-20907030-detail/story.html The Sentinel.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924110804/http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Alsager-businesses-lose-fight-stop-Sainsbury-8217/story-20907030-detail/story.html |date=24 September 2015 }} Retrieval Date: 4 April 2014.</ref> Sainsbury's are currently reviewing their plans for a large store in the town due to changing patterns in the way people shop, which is currently away from large stores to online shopping and top up shopping at smaller stores. The company along with its rivals have scrapped many major new store schemes throughout the UK.

There were proposals to build 1267 new build houses, a new supermarket and petrol station in Alsager.<ref>[http://alsageraction.org.uk/public-meeting-12112012/summary-of-house-building-for-alsager/ Alsager Residents Action Group website.] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130707072300/http://alsageraction.org.uk/public-meeting-12112012/summary-of-house-building-for-alsager/ |date=7 July 2013 }} Retrieval Date: 10 May 2013.</ref>

==Sport==

Alsager is home to [[Alsager Town F.C.]] The club competes in the [[North West Counties Football League]] and plays its home matches at Wood Park.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alsagertownfc.co.uk/ |title=Home page |publisher=Alsager Town F.C. |access-date=9 January 2024}}</ref> AFC Alsager is a more recent addition to the town's sporting teams. Established in 2012, the club has over 26 different teams, including a first team at Step 7 in the FA Pyramid System.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://afcalsager.com |title=Home page |publisher=AFC Alsager |access-date=9 January 2024}}</ref> The Alsager Football Group is a community sports group. Its purpose is to provide local residents with the opportunity to play casual football matches. Alsager is also home to Alsager Old Boys FC and Linley Tavern FC.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/groups/141674472531468/|title = Facebook - Alsager Old Boys (Formerly Bank Corner FC)| website=[[Facebook]] |access-date = 9 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://coorssundayfootballleague.leaguerepublic.com/team/117602953/572646527.html|title=Coors Sunday Football League - Linley Tavern FC|access-date=9 October 2024}}</ref>

Alsager also has Alsager Cricket Club, the Alsager Golf and Country Club, the Alsager Institute Bowling Club, the Alsager Company of Archers, Triton Hockey Club, Alsager Lawn Tennis Club, The Wood Park Wulruds, a pool league and a swimming club.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://alsager.play-cricket.com/home|title = Alsager CC|access-date = 9 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.tritonhockey.co.uk/|title = Triton Hockey Club|access-date = 9 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/clubs/triton-hc/teams|title=England Hockey - Triton Hockey Club |access-date=9 October 2024}}</ref>

There is a leisure centre in Alsager, managed by [[Cheshire East Council]]. On 25 October 2019, the new Alsager Sports Hub opened on the former MMU campus on Dunnocksfold Road. The hub contains a pavilion, five grass football pitches, a 3G football pitch and a 2G hockey pitch.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://everybody.org.uk/locations/alsager-sportshub/|title=Alsager Sports Hub - Everybody Health & Leisure|access-date=9 October 2024}}</ref> It is home to Triton Hockey Club and AFC Alsager.

Alsager hosts a 5-mile road race, each year in February. The event attracts many of the UK's top endurance athletes, such as Shay Norman.

==Parks==
Alsager has several parks. The town's main park is Milton Garden, which has an ornamental sunken garden, a skatepark, a small children's football pitch and a play area.

==Pastimes and leisure pursuits==

There is a tradition of [[Allotment (gardening)|allotment]] holding in the town, administered by the Alsager Gardens Association.<ref>.[http://www.alsagergardensassociation.org.uk/ Alsager Gardens Association website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205051945/http://www.alsagergardensassociation.org.uk/ |date=5 February 2007 }} Retrieval Date: 10 August 2007.</ref>

== Notable people ==
[[File:Lee Bell.jpg|thumb|140px|football manager, [[Lee Bell]], 2023]]
* [[John Crew]] (1603–1670), barrister and politician, MP for [[Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Cheshire]] in 1654
* [[James Lloyd (artist)|James Lloyd]] (1905–1974) artist, mostly painted animals and country landscapes, he grew up on a local farm.<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Lloyd, Milwaukee Art Museum |url=http://collection.mam.org/artist.php?id=6647 |access-date=11 July 2015 |archive-date=14 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714063427/https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Sport ===
* [[Arthur Lockett]] (1877–1957), footballer who played 311 games, mainly for [[Watford F.C.]] & [[Preston North End]]
* [[Bill Branch|William John Branch]] (1911–1985) was an English professional golfer from Alsager
* [[Lee Bell]] (born 1983 in Alsager) football manager and former player, played 347 games, <ref>[http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=32241 SoccerBase Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225035353/http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=32241 |date=25 December 2017 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> currently the manager of [[Crewe Alexandra F.C.|Crewe Alexandra]]
* [[Shaun Miller]] (born 1987 in Alsager), footballer, played over 400 games<ref>[http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=45362 SoccerBase Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225035428/http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=45362 |date=25 December 2017 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> incl. [[Crewe Alexandra F.C.]] & [[Nantwich Town F.C.]]
* [[Lloyd Saxton]] (born 1990 in Alsager), footballer<ref>[http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=50864 SoccerBase Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225035233/http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=50864 |date=25 December 2017 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> who played 68 games for Swedish football club [[GIF Sundsvall]].
* [[Rowan Cheshire]] (born 1995 in Alsager) freestyle skier who represented Great Britain at the [[2018 Winter Olympics]].
*[[Tara Bourne]] (born 2003 in Alsager) women’s football player for [[Southampton F.C. Women]]

==Nature==
{{portal|Cheshire}}

''The Mere'' is a lake in the centre of Alsager; this isolated pool, once the focal point of the town, is only accessible by two fenced public viewing areas and by local residents who have gardens adjoining the waters.<ref>[http://www.rmcybernetics.com/research/alsager_mere/alsager_mere.htm Alsager Mere] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622061912/http://www.rmcybernetics.com/research/alsager_mere/index.htm |date=}} Retrieval Date: 21 November 2023</ref>

Alsager is home to Borrow Pit Meadows, a local beauty spot situated in the north of the town, which leads on to the Salt Line. 

The town has woodlands leading to Church Lawton.

Near to the railway station, there is another walkway called Merelake Way; this runs mostly alongside Alsager Golf Course.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Alsager}}
* [http://www.alsagertowncouncil.org.uk/ Alsager Town Council]
* {{OpenDomesday|SJ7955|alsager|Alsager}}

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[[Category:Civil parishes in Cheshire]]
[[Category:Towns in Cheshire]]