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Crewe

British  
/ kruː /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Cheshire: major railway junction. Pop: 67 683 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The new production line is inside one of the Crewe site's original factory buildings dating from 1938.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Investments include a $465 million upgrade of its factory in Crewe, England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Jessica met Owen when he was at Crewe Alexandra.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

According to Network Rail, its operational control boundary spans from Crewe in the south to Carlisle in the north, and from Todmorden in the east to the Welsh border in the west.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

I thought about Sara Crewe in A Little Princess, pretending she is a prisoner in the Bastille to make her work as a scullery maid more bearable.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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