Place:Elton, Cheshire, England

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Elton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is situated approximately to the northeast of Chester, between Helsby and Ellesmere Port, near to the River Mersey. Its proximity to the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal have contributed to its industrial character. The village is on the north-western edge of the Cheshire plain, approximately from Stanlow Refinery, a Shell facility and the seventh largest oil refinery in Europe. The refinery produces one-sixth of the United Kingdom's petrol.

Elton Scouts

In Elton, there was a great scout group that had to close many years ago however, a few of Elton's residents have decided to reopen it. So far, the scout troop have been re-open for more than a bit and the scouts are enjoying themselves very much. The Cheshire hike is what many of the scouts there try to do year in, year out. In order to achieve the Cheshire Challenge for this year, the scouts are getting together with the rest of their group and spending time with the Beavers and Cubs. The scouts are '1st Ince and Elton' scouts. There has been a website set up for the 1st Ince and Elton group.

At the time of the 2001 Census, the village of Elton had a population of 3,528. Elton was briefly in the media spotlight in 1997 when one of its residents, Louise Woodward, went on trial for murder in the USA.

By 2007, 65 hectares of the former Ince Power Station site near the Mersey had been redeveloped as part of a large bottle production factory owned by Quinn Glass, containing two glass melting furnaces and 13 bottle production lines. It was estimated that £250 million was invested into this project and the factory outputs 1.2 billion bottles per year.

It has recently been proposed that a 95 kilowatt power station and various recycling plants be sited on a water meadow near Elton. The land is owned by Peel Holdings and the proposal is in its embryonic stage.

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