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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. Stone Age remains have been found showing more permanent habitation during the Neolithic period, and by the Iron Age the area is known to have been occupied by the Celtic ...
1069–1071: William I leads the Norman Conquest into Cheshire; besieges Chester and kills Edwin, Earl of Mercia. [citation needed] 1070: Hugh d'Avranches created as first Earl of Chester. [29] 1070: Chester Castle built. [30] 1070: Frodsham Castle built. [31] 1075: St John the Baptist's Church, Chester becomes a cathedral.
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.
History of Chester. The history of Chester extends back nearly two millennia, covering all periods of British history in between then and the present day. The city of Chester was founded as a fort, known as Deva Vitrix, by the Romans in AD 70s, as early as AD 74 based on discovered lead pipes. The city was the scene of battles between warring ...
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border. With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, [ 1] it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester (which had a population of 357,150 in 2021). [ 5] It is also the historic county town of Cheshire and ...
Lancashire ( / ˈlæŋkəʃər / LAN-kə-shər, /- ʃɪər / -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The county has an area of 3,079 square ...
Variant form (s) Talmach, Tallemache, Talmadge, Talmage. The Tollemache family (also historically spelt Talmach or Tallemache) is an English noble family, originally from Suffolk. [ 2] The family's surname is pronounced / ˈtɒlmæʃ / TOL-mash . Members of the family have had a significant impact on the economy and politics of East Anglia ...
Cheshire County Cricket Club. Cheshire Domesday Book tenants-in-chief. Cheshire Record Office. Chester and Cheshire (Constituencies) Act 1542. Chester Rural District. Chetham Society. Constable of Chester. Coppenhall Junction rail crash (1962) Council of Wales and the Marches.