Qualla: Wilmslow https://qualla.com/wilmslow en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wilmslow https://qualla.com/wilmslow Wilmslow: Introduction https://qualla.com/wilmslow/ In May 1984, a peat cutter at Lindow Moss outside Wilmslow turned up part of a human leg, and what followed became one of the great archaeological stories of the British Iron Age. Lindow Man had lain in the bog for around 2,000 years, his skin and hair and stomach contents preserved by tannins and the cold dark water. The other quiet figure who marks this small Cheshire town is Alan Turing, the mathematician who cracked Enigma, and who died in his Wilmslow home in 1954. A 2,000-year-old man and the man who broke the Nazi cipher both anchor a town that is also, today, the founding home of Umbro, the centre of Cheshire's Golden Triangle, and the place that produced the band The 1975.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/r/wilmslow-wp/gcqr-wilmslow-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wilmslow: A Mound of Wighelm https://qualla.com/wilmslow/ Wilmslow takes its name from Old English Wighelmes hlaw, the mound of a man called Wighelm, although no one now remembers who he was or what he did. The town's earliest civic record places it as an ancient parish in the Macclesfield Hundred, subdivided into the four townships of ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/r/wilmslow-wp/gcqr-wilmslow-lindow-man.mp3 0:06 3 full Wilmslow: Alan Turing https://qualla.com/wilmslow/ Alan Turing moved to Wilmslow in 1950, working at the University of Manchester on early computer development after his pivotal wartime work driving the design of the Bombe machine that broke the German Enigma cipher. He died in his Wilmslow home in 1954, prosecuted and chemically...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/r/wilmslow-wp/gcqr-wilmslow-alan-turing.mp3 0:06 4 full Wilmslow: Sleaze, Sport, and The 1975 https://qualla.com/wilmslow/ The 1997 general election brought Wilmslow briefly to the centre of national news. The Conservative MP for Tatton, Neil Hamilton, was accused of accepting cash to ask parliamentary questions. The independent candidate Martin Bell stood against him in protest, helped on the doorst...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/r/wilmslow-wp/gcqr-wilmslow-sleaze-sport-and-the-1975.mp3 0:06 5 full Wilmslow: The Golden Triangle https://qualla.com/wilmslow/ Today Wilmslow forms one of the three points of Cheshire's Golden Triangle along with Alderley Edge and Prestbury, a stretch of suburb famous for its wealth, its commuter trains to Manchester, and its showrooms for Aston Martin, Porsche, Ferrari, Bentley, McLaren, Rolls-Royce, an...

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