Definitions for "Runcorn"
Runcorn is an industrial town in the borough of Halton and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is located on the southern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form Runcorn Gap. The name came from Saxon Rumcofan = "wide bay or creek".
Runcorn was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Runcorn in Cheshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.