Place:Daresbury, Cheshire, England

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Name	Daresbury
Alt names	Daresbury Delph	source: hamlet in parish
Type	Township, Village, Parish
Coordinates	53.35°N 2.633°W
Located in	Cheshire, England
See also	Runcorn, Cheshire, England	ancient parish of which it was a chapelry
	Bucklow Hundred, Cheshire, England	hundred in which it was located
	Runcorn Rural, Cheshire, England	rural district of which it was part 1894-1974
	Halton District, Cheshire, England	district municipality covering the area since 1974 (unitary authority since 2009)

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Daresbury is a village, civil parish and, since 2009, ward in the unitary authority of Halton. It is located in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England and covered by the Weaver Vale parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census, the population of the parish was 216, with a total ward population of 3,906. Daresbury was expanded in 1936 by the abolition of the parishes of Keckwick and Newton by Daresbury. The original chapelry contained the hamlet of Daresbury Delph.

The most notable attributes of Daresbury are that it was the birthplace (some 1.5 miles south of the village) of Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and that the Science and Technology Facilities Council Daresbury Laboratory had a synchrotron research facility called the Synchrotron Radiation Source which was located there until 2008.

Daresbury has become a place of pilgrimage because of the Lewis Carroll association. There is a recently completed Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre. The parish church of All Saints has a Lewis Carroll window, including an image of the Cheshire Cat.

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