In the Domesday Book, Nantwich is recorded as with eight salt houses. It got a castle & was the capital of the barony of the earls of Chester, & of a hundred (one of the septet sub-divisions of mediaeval Cheshire). A salt industry peaked around a late sixteenth century once there were 216 salt houses, however the industry ended in 1856 with the closure of the previous salt home. Likewise a endure tannery closed within 1974, but a vesture industry remains significant to the vicinity.

Nantwich has suffered many disasters inside its history. It was number 1 recorded as an populated area at a instance of the Norman conquest -- the Normans burned the town to the ground, allowing just 1 building standing. Both hundred years late the town was attacked across a extended period of time by vulture from either Wales, while inside 1583 the Great Fire of Nantwich raged for Xx years, destroying virtually all of the town, which was rebuilt at the dollars and cents of £30,000 around 16th-century money, £2,000 of which was personally donated by Queen Elizabeth I together with timber from either a royal woods.

In a period of the English Civil War, Nantwich was the just town around Cheshire to declare for Parliament, and consequently it was besieged many days by Royalist forces. A final besieging was lifted ensuing a triumph of the Parliamentary forces in the Battle of Nantwich on January 26, 1644, which is re-enacted as Holly Holy Day in its day of remembrance annually, an event normally involving a Sealed Knot, a registered charity devoted to re-enacting English civil war battles for education purposes.

Geographically, Nantwich is on the 'Cheshire Plain', on the banks of the River Weaver and close to a Llangollen and Shropshire Union Canals, just south of the latter's junction using a Trent and Mersey Canal. These are or so quaternity miles south-west of Crewe (it has a railroad terminal on the line from either Crewe to Whitchurch, Shrewsbury & other towns along a Welsh border), and Twenty miles south-east of Chester.

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Wich & wych come list utilized to denote brine springs or even wells. Per 11th century use of the 'wich' postfix in placenames associated towns by owning salt production; little joe English towns carry a suffix: Droitwich in Worcestershire, and a trio Cheshire 'wiches' of Middlewich, Nantwich and Northwich. + a city of Norwich in Norfolk.