Alsager is a town on the south eastern border of the county.
Alsager has Saxon origins, the name coming from the Old English Ælle's arable land. By the time of the Domesday Book, it was known as Eleacier and remained a small farming village for centuries. In the centre of Alsager is a lake known as the Mere. As with many places Alsager did not change until the advent of new technologies and industries, in Alsager's case the railways.
Situated between Crewe and Stoke-on-Trent, Alsager became a popular home for managers of various industries in those industrial towns who could easily commute after the railway station was opened in 1848.
In the Second World War, an armaments factory was built near to Alsager, the town greatly expanding with the new workers bought in for the factory. The factory at Radway Green continues to produce small arms ammunition for the British armed forces. A Royal Marines training camp was also constructed in the town, after the war this was re-purposed as a refugee camp.
