CREWE, a municipal borough in Cheshire, England, 158m. N.W. of London, on the main line of the L.M.S.R. Pop. (1931) 46,061. The town was built on an estate called Oak farm in the parish of Monk's Coppenhall, and takes its name from the original stations having been placed in the township of Crewe, in which the seat of Lord Crewe is situated. It is a great railway junction where lines converge from London, Manchester, north Wales and Holyhead, north Stafford and Hereford, and is inhabited princi pally by employees of the L.M.S.R. company, who practically created the town at a point where in 1841 only a farmhouse stood in open country. Crewe is not only one of the busiest railway stations in the world, hut has enormous locomotive and rolling stock works as well.