Traditional fingerpost for Daresbury and Warrington in Cheshire, village home of Lewis Carroll heritage and the annual Creamfields festival.

. A traditional white Cheshire fingerpost naming Daresbury and Warrington stands against a tall green hedge, recording the permanent rural identity of the village that each August becomes synonymous with Creamfields. Daresbury lies between Warrington and Runcorn and is internationally known for two very different cultural associations. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the future Lewis Carroll, was born here in 1832, and All Saints Church preserves the village's Alice in Wonderland connection through the Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre and memorial window. All Saints has deep roots: an earlier church dates to around 1100, its tower to about 1500 and the present Paley and Austin building to 1870. Since 2006 Daresbury has also been the home of Creamfields, the major electronic dance festival that grew from Liverpool's Cream club culture. The first Creamfields was held in Winchester in 1998, then expanded at Liverpool Airfield before moving to Cheshire. In 2026 the event celebrates 20 years at Daresbury and expects up to 80, 000 fans over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Headline and featured artists include Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia, Disclosure, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Becky Hill, Underworld, Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox and Amelie Lens, demonstrating how this small place name has become familiar to clubbers around the world. Festival week brings temporary road closures, parking zones, pedestrian routes, security searches and extensive signage to the surrounding lanes. Cheshire Constabulary's 2026 pre-event operation also found quantities of drugs buried on the grounds, reinforcing the contrast between the tranquil village landscape and the complex policing of a mass gathering. This image is suited to editorial themes of Cheshire geography, village identity, Lewis Carroll heritage, literary tourism, festival culture, rural change, placemaking and the unusual coexistence of historic English countryside with a globally recognised dance-music destination.