Repointing in Cheshire & North Staffordshire

South of Manchester the stone runs out and Cheshire is brick — soft, hand-made, orange-red Cheshire brick in lime on the Georgian and older buildings, harder Victorian and Edwardian brick in cement on the towns, and a strip of Pennine gritstone along the eastern edge at Bollington, Rainow and the Macclesfield hills. Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Poynton, Warrington, Northwich, Widnes and Runcorn all have their own pages.

Beyond thirty miles we cover Congleton, Sandbach, Middlewich, Winsford, Crewe and Nantwich in the middle of the county, Frodsham, Helsby, Ellesmere Port and Chester to the west — Chester's Georgian and Victorian sandstone and brick is all conservation area — and Biddulph, Leek, Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme over the border in Staffordshire, where the terraces are Potteries brick and Leek is Staffordshire gritstone. No travel charge within 15 miles of Rochdale; past that it's priced into the fixed quote on the bigger jobs these are.