Rainow

About

Rainow is a town of about 1,236 people in west midlands. (Village in Cheshire, England.) According to Wikipedia: "Rainow is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, in the valley of the River Dean and next to the B5470 road between Macclesfield and Kettleshulme. It straddles the eastern side of the Peak District border of Derbyshire and Cheshire, and is surrounded by pasture farmland. The Peak District Boundary Walk runs past the village. The village's name comes from the Old English hræfn + hōh, meaning 'hill-spur frequented by ravens'. It is a former mill village and has a population of around 2,500."

Coordinates

53.2802, -2.0727

Population

1,236

Official site

www.rainowvillage.co.uk

Sources

• wikidata: Q674502 (CC0)
• wikipedia: Rainow (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• commons: Rainow.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)