The ''Congleton Chronicle'' is a

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published every Thursday in

Congleton Congleton is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The town is by the River Dane, south of Manchester and north of Stoke on Trent. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 26,482. Top ...

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

, England. Founded in 1893 by Robert Head at 11 High Street, Congleton, the

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remains at that address, and is the only independently-owned, paid-for newspaper in Cheshire. The paper is owned by the Condliffe family, following a management

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led by former editor John Condliffe in 1988. His son Jeremy is the current

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- only the fourth since the paper was founded - who created the second father to son succession (after Robert Head to his son Lionel). In addition to the Congleton Chronicle, the company also publishes the ''Sandbach Chronicle'', the ''Biddulph Chronicle'' and, launched in January 2012, the ''Alsager Chronicle''. The newspapers have a combined circulation of 15,842, and are read by approximately 42,000 people.JICREG Newspaper Readership Report, dated 1 January 2008

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The Chronicle Series Newspapers published in Cheshire Publications established in 1893 1893 establishments in England {{England-newspaper-stub