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The history of Cheshire can be traced back to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP. Primitive tools that date to that period have been found.
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.
1450: A group of Cheshire gentry successfully petitions the Crown against the introduction of a parliamentary subsidy. [63] 1452, 1455, 1459: Margaret of Anjou visits Chester. [54] [64] 23 September 1459: Many Cheshire gentry killed fighting on both sides in the Battle of Blore Heath, early in the Wars of the Roses. [65] 1470: Edward IV visits ...
Additionally, the Domesday Book included, as part of Cheshire, areas that later became part of Wales, including the two hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan, and the southern part of Duddestan Hundred (as it was known as the time), which later became known as Maelor Saesneg (English Maelor), and (later still) "Flintshire Detached". [41]
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in the North West of England. Chester is the county town , and formerly gave its name to the county. The largest town is Warrington , and other major towns include Congleton , Crewe , Ellesmere Port , Macclesfield , Nantwich , Northwich , Runcorn , Sandbach , Widnes , Wilmslow and Winsford .
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in the North West of England. Chester is the county town, and formerly gave its name to the county.The largest town is Warrington, and other major towns include Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Northwich, Runcorn, Sandbach, Widnes, Wilmslow and Winsford.
The Cheshire Cat is now largely identified with the character of the same name in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Alice first encounters the Cheshire Cat at the Duchess's house in her kitchen, and later on the branches of a tree, where it appears and disappears at will, and engages Alice in amusing but sometimes perplexing conversation.
Three Shire Heads bridge, where three shires in England (Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire) meet. Shire (/ ʃ aɪər /) is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries. It is generally synonymous with county (such as Cheshire and Worcestershire). British counties are ...