Holmes Chapel is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Until 1974 the parish was known as Church Hulme. Holmes Chapel is a located approximately 8 north of Crewe and 21 miles south of Manchester.
At the 2001 Census the population of the village was recorded as 5,669. According to the Index of Deprivation, the village ranks as the 18th least deprived ward in the United Kingdom (out of 8,414). Holmes Chapel railway station is a commuter town and has services to Manchester and Crewe. Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve lies 2.5 miles (4 km) east of the village and Goostrey lies to the north.
The village has a number of public houses including the George and Dragon, the Red Lion and the Swan. There is also a shopping precinct with a supermarket, fish and chip shop, off licence, pizzeria, betting shop, estate agent, a chemist and a library, which has recently had an extension. There is also a hardware shop, Morrey's of Holmes Chapel, which has been in the village for over a century and Mandeville's, a bakery. The village has one secondary school, Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School.
One Direction member Harry Styles (born 1994) was brought up in Holmes Chapel, attending the secondary school and working in the local bakery.
Holmes Chapel has been twinned with:
- Bessancourt, France since 1979
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Famous quotes containing the word chapel:
“I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)