House surveys in Cheshire

Cheshire combines historic market towns, affluent commuter villages and industrial towns along the Mersey. Chester's Roman and medieval walls enclose black-and-white buildings and Georgian terraces, while Nantwich and Knutsford have Tudor and Georgian centres. Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Prestbury are among the most expensive places to live in the North of England. Crewe grew as a railway town, Macclesfield and Congleton on silk, and Northwich, Middlewich and Winsford on salt. Runcorn and Warrington were developed as new towns, while Widnes and Ellesmere Port grew on chemicals and car manufacturing. Common survey issues include salt-related subsidence in mid Cheshire, river flooding, clay soils and the condition of new town housing.