Population 216 (2001) Local time Friday 4:03 PM Dialling code 01925 | OS grid reference SJ5881 Sovereign state United Kingdom | |
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Daresbury is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, which at the 2001 Census had a population of 216.
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Map of Daresbury, Warrington, UK
Daresbury was the birthplace of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll. The Science and Technology Facilities Council's Daresbury Laboratory, the Synchrotron Radiation Source, closed in 2008.
Daresbury has a Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre and the parish church, All Saints, a Lewis Carroll window, including an image of the Cheshire Cat.
In 2006, the annual Creamfields dance festival was held in Daresbury after relocating from the disused Liverpool airport site it had occupied for the six previous years. This saw 40,000 revellers partying from 3pm-6am to a line-up that included live performances from The Prodigy and Zutons, as well as DJ sets from the likes of Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, 2 Many DJ's, Green Velvet and DJ Shadow. As of 2014, the festival has been an annual event at the site.
Daresbury is also an electoral ward. However, the boundary of the ward is different from (and larger than) the parish boundary, and includes the parishes of Moore, Halton and Preston Brook.