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From the time of this legend, Congleton has been nicknamed 'Beartown'.
Congleton's main landmark, a high outcrop of rocks known as The Cloud[3], overlooks the Cheshire plain. The Cloud Project in Congleton is a daily photographic record of The Cloud over a period of 1 year and also of Cloudside, Dane in Shaw, The Macclesfield Canal and surrounding areas.
The Cloud is also the setting for the climax of the supernatural novel, A Haunted Man, by Stuart Neild, where the novel's hero, ghosthunter Boag-Munroe, is involved in a fight to the death.
The principal industries in Congleton include the manufacture of airbags and golf-balls. There are light engineering factories near the town, and sand extraction occurs on the Cheshire Plain, although much of the town is now a dormitory for Manchester. There are several weekly local newspapers: the paid-for Congleton Chronicle and free-sheets the Congleton Advertiser and Congleton Guardian. Local radio comes from nearby Macclesfield-based Silk FM, Signal Radio from Stoke-on-Trent and BBC Radio Stoke.
The town of Congleton is broken up by the Congleton townspeople into 5 main areas. These are Buglawton, otherwise known as "Bug Town"[citation needed], the Bromley Farm estate (otherwise known as "Tin Town" due to the amount of Anderson shelters there during the war), Mossley which is sometimes classed as the posher part of town, West Heath which is a relatively new estate built in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, and finally the town centre.[citation needed] there is also an area called Lower Heath and High Town in Congleton
Congleton is home to a local football team, Congleton Town FC, known as the Bears, who play in the minor leagues. Their ground is at Booth Street. There are also two cricket clubs, Congleton and Mossley.[4]
Attractions near, but not in the civil parish of Congleton, include Little Moreton Hall, a National Trust Tudor house to the south of the town.[5]
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