In a small country a dose of EU funding can have outsize effects, says José Ignacio Torreblanca, a Spanish expert on EU affairs: "You just need one good motorway to take all your goods out".Spain with a population of about 40m people, close to Poland's is often cited as a model of how to use EU money well.
Three canals also pass through the town, the Shropshire Union, Trent and Mersey, and the Wardle canal, as well as three major roads, the A533, A54 and A530; Middlewich also has good motorway links to the nearby cities of Manchester and Liverpool.
Business and industrial neighbourhoods are more likely to be located near motorways to enable easy access for workers and goods.
Integrated services for library, media and IT support Transport Good links by motorway and rail, and international airports and big cities, including Manchester and Glasgow, are accessible.
While motorways have good 3G coverage, just 35% of the UK's A and B roads are served by all four mobile networks.
Or a road that is smaller than a motorway?" "Such good pun we're having," Anna adds, a moment later.
The town has good access to the motorway network.
With its good links to the motorway system, Bridgwater has developed as a distribution hub for companies such as Argos, Toolstation, Morrisons and Gerber Juice.
Its motorways are so good that many drivers pass straight through the tiny country, from Austria to Croatia, barely noticing that they have been in it.
