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The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland within the county of Cheshire in North West England but extending south into Shropshire. It extends from the Mersey Valley in the north to the Shropshire Hills in the south, bounded by the hills of North Wales to the west and the foothills of the Pennines to the north-east. [ 1 ]
The majority of the solid rocks of Cheshire are sedimentary rocks laid down during the Permian and Triassic periods. Both the east and west Cheshire Plains are immediately underlain by Triassic sandstones, siltstones and mudstones, although outcrops are restricted to those areas that are not covered by thick expanses of glacial till of glacio-fluvial sands and gravels, such as the Mid Cheshire ...
Cheshire (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər,-ɪər / CHESH-ər, -eer) [3] is a ceremonial county in North West England.It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shropshire to the south; to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham, and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary.
This is a list of places within the ceremonial county boundaries of Cheshire, in North West England. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:42, 26 September 2010: 1,425 × 1,098 (2.23 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of Cheshire, UK with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 1
The ceremonial county of Cheshire is administered by four unitary authorities (click on the map for details): 1 – Cheshire West and Chester. 2 – Cheshire East. 3 – Warrington. 4 – Halton. In the local government reorganisation of 1974, Cheshire gained an area formerly in Lancashire including Widnes and Warrington.
Location of the ceremonial county of Cheshire within England. Date: 16 November 2010: ... Locator maps of the Ceremonial counties of England on Wikimedia Commons.
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