Cheshire Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This article is about the English county. For other uses see Cheshire (disambiguation)

Cheshire
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region:	North West England
Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 25th 2,343 km² Ranked 25th 2,083 km²
Admin HQ:	Chester
:	GB-CHS
ONS code:	13
NUTS 3:	UKD22
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 18th 986,079 421 / km² Ranked 13th 675,803
Ethnicity:	98.3% White
Politics
Cheshire County Council http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Gwyneth Dunwoody, Mike Hall, Helen Jones, Andrew Miller, Stephen O'Brien, George Osborne, Christine Russell, Helen Southworth, Derek Twigg, Ann Winterton, Nicholas Winterton
Districts
Ellesmere Port and Neston Chester Crewe and Nantwich Congleton Macclesfield Vale Royal Halton (Unitary) Warrington (Unitary)

Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England. Its county town is the city of Chester. It borders the ceremonial counties of Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire (with Stoke-on-Trent), and Shropshire and the Welsh preserved county of Clwyd.

Some northern parts of the county are effectively suburbs of Manchester or Liverpool, and many of those who work in these cities commute from other parts of the county.

Table of contents

1 History 2 Famous products 3 Famous people 4 Settlements 5 Places of interest 6 Options for change

History

Main article: History of Cheshire.

Cheshire in the Domesday Book was recorded as a much larger county than it is today. Its northern border was the River Ribble, and it was recorded with eighteen hundredss, six of which were north of the River Mersey.

In 1182 the land north of the Mersey became administered as part of the new county of Lancashire instead. Later, the hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan became part of Wales. Over the years the ten hundreds consolidated to just seven — Broxton, Bucklow, Eddisbury, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Northwich, and Wirral.

In a local government reform in 1974, some areas near the border with Lancashire became part of the new counties of Greater Manchester and Merseyside, notably Stockport, and the Wirral area around Birkenhead. Also at this time, Cheshire regained Warrington and the surrounding district from Lancshire.

Halton and Warrington became unitary authorities independent of Cheshire on April 1, 1998.

Famous products

• Cheshire cheese
• Salt

Famous people

• Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, one of the UK's wealthiest residents lives at Eaton Hall near Chester.
• Lewis Carroll was born and raised here, hence the Cheshire cat.
• Writer Alan Garner
• Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell was brought up in the town of Knutsford, which she depicted in her book, Cranford.
• the singer Tim Burgess from the Charlatans.

Settlements

This is a list of the major towns and cities in Cheshire, for a full list of settlements see list of places in Cheshire.

• Acton, Alderley Edge, Alsager, Aldford, Astbury, Audlem
• Barnton, Beeston, Bickerton, Bollington, Bucklow Hill, Bunbury, Burton (Willaston), Burton (Taporley)
• Chester, Chelford Congleton, Crewe, Cheadle
• Disley
• Elworth, Ellesmere Port
• Farndon, Frodsham
• Gawsworth, Great Budworth
• Hale, Haslington, Handforth, Helsby
• Kelsall, Kerridge, Knutsford
• Langley, Ledsham, Lower Peover
• Macclesfield, Malpas, Marston, Middlewich, Mobberley
• Nantwich, Neston, Northwich
• Ollerton, Parkgate, Peckforton, Poynton, Prestbury,Runcorn
• Sandbach, Siddington, Stretton, Styal, Swettenham
• Tarporley, Tarvin, Tattenhall, Timbersbrook
• Warburton, Warrington,Warmingham, Weaverham, Willaston, Wilmslow, Widnes, Winsford, Wybunbury

Places of interest

• Adlington Hall
• Arley Hall
• Capesthorne Hall
• Dunham Massey
• Elton Hall, Aldford
• Gawsworth Hall
• Holt Castle
• Lyme Hall, Lyme Park, one of the locations for BBC's Pride and Prejudice
• Little Moreton Hall
• Moss Hall, Audlem
• Peover Hall
• Tabley House
• Tatton Hall, Tatton Park
• Beeston Castle
• Cholmondley Castle
• Peckforton Castle
• Sandbach Crosses
• Watermills: Bunbury Mill, Nether Alderley Mill, Quarry Bank Mill
• Jodrell Bank Science Centre
• Ellesmere Port Boat Museum
• Lion Salt Works, Marston, an industrial museum
• Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, an industrial museum
• Macclesfield Forest
• Ness Botanic Gardens
• Tegg's Nose Country Park
• River Weaver, River Dee, River Dane, River Bollin, River Goyt
• Shropshire Union Canal
• Trent and Mersey Canal
• Anderton Boat Lift
• Biddulph Valley Way, a long distance footpath

Options for change

On May 25, 2004 the Boundary Committee for England published its final recommendations for systems of Unitary Authorities to be implemented if proposals for elected Regional Assemblies are approved by referendums in three northern Regions of England. They put forward two options for each County Council area, which the electorate will be asked to choose between at the same time as the Assembly Referendums.

For Cheshire the options are

• a single authority for the existing County Council Area
• 3 authorities for the existing County Council Area

Option 1	Option 1 (left) Halton Warrington Cheshire Council	Option 2
	Option 2 (right) Halton Warrington Chester & West Cheshire Mid Cheshire East Cheshire

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