a market-town of England, county of Chester, in a low, flat country, on the right bank of the Weaver, 17 miles S.E. of Chester. It consists of four principal streets; and the houses are for the most part old, and built of wood or brick. There is a fine church, in the form of a cross, with an octagonal tower and a stone pulpit. Nantwich has also several dissenting churches, almshouses, several banks, a market-house, and a theatre. Salt was formerly the principal article of manufacture here, and was obtained from numerous springs in the neighbourhood; but only one of these is at present worked. The manufactures consist chiefly of cheese, shoes, gloves, and cotton. Some trade is carried on in cheese and other farm produce. A battle was fought at Nantwich in 1643, in which the royalists were defeated by the parliamentary troops under Fairfax. Nantwich was the birthplace of Gerarde, a botanist, in 1545. Pop. (1851) 5426.