Cheshire

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

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Cheshire is a county in North West England. Its county town is the city of Chester. It borders Flintshire, Wrexham, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire.

Cheshire's official title is the County of Chester. Cheshire is a contraction of "Chestershire".

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. Additionally, some towns traditionally part of Cheshire were made part of the new metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester and Merseyside in 1974. In 1974, Cheshire also lost its far north-eastern slice of land north of Glossop to Derbyshire, but gained Warrington from Lancashire. However Warrington became independent of Cheshire again in 1998 along with Halton when they were reconstituted as unitary authorities.

Districts and Boroughs in Cheshire

Famous products from Cheshire

Cheshire cheese

Famous people from Cheshire

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.