Cheshire
Cheshire is a county in north west England. It shares borders with Merseyside and Greater Manchester in the north, Derbyshire in the east, Shropshire and Staffordshire in the south, and the Welsh county of Clwyd to the west.Photo: Qoan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Chester
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Chester is a very pretty and historic English city on the river Dee, and the county town of the North-Western county of Cheshire.
Warrington
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Warrington is an industrial town in Cheshire, with a population in 2020 of 172,330.
Runcorn
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The industrial inland port of Runcorn is a treasure trove of architectural styles, from medieval ruins to 1970s utopia.
Destinations
Crewe
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Crewe is a medium-sized town in South Cheshire. It boasts friendly people, inexpensive hotels and eateries.
Macclesfield
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Macclesfield is a market town in Cheshire where the Cheshire plain gives way to the Peak District.
Northwich
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Northwich is a market and port town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Nantwich
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Nantwich is a beautiful historic town in Cheshire. It contains many old buildings which were built after the great fire of Nantwich in 1583.
Widnes
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Widnes is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2021 census…
Sandbach
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Sandbach is a town in North West England. Sandbach Cobbles with Half-timbered Pubs, including the Black Bear to the left, the War Memorial and the Saxon crosses in the background.
Congleton
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Congleton is a historic market town in Cheshire East, North West England.
Ellesmere Port
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Ellesmere Port is in West Cheshire. Surrounding villages include Willaston, Neston, Parkgate, and Hooton.
Wilmslow
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Wilmslow is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England, 11 mi south of Manchester.
Holmes Chapel
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Holmes Chapel, until 1974 known as Church Holme, is a village in Cheshire.
Knutsford
Knutsford is a very pleasant town of 13,000 people in Cheshire spoilt only by its position under Manchester Airport's flight path.Neston
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Neston is a market town and civil parish on the Wirral Peninsula, in Cheshire, England.
Middlewich
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Middlewich is a town in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Lymm
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Lymm is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England.
Alderley Edge
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Alderley Edge is in Cheshire. The area is popular for walking in the woods and there are far-reaching views from the sandstone ridge.
Tattenhall
Tattenhall is a village in Cheshire. It hosts the ruins of a 13th-century castle, and sits along the Sandstone Trail, a long-distance walkers' path, between Frodsham to Whitchurch.Wybunbury
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Wybunbury is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Cheshire
- Type: Region with 1,000,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in England, United Kingdom
- Neighbors: Clwyd, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Shropshire and Staffordshire
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of centre
53.1667° or 53° 10' northLongitude of centre
-2.5833° or 2° 35' westPopulation
1,000,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)GeoNames ID
2653234Wikidata ID
Q23064Cheshire Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Cheshire
- Arabic: Cheshire
- Arabic: تشيشير
- Aragonese: Cheshire
- Armenian: Չեշիր
- Asturian: Cheshire
- Azerbaijani: Çeşir
- Balinese: Cheshire
- Basque: Cheshire
- Belarusian: Чэшыр (гарфства)
- Belarusian: Чэшыр, графства
- Belarusian: Чэшыр
- Belarusian: графства Чэшыр
- Breton: Cheshire
- Bulgarian: Чешър
- Catalan: Cheshire
- Cebuano: Cheshire
- Chechen: Чешир
- Chinese: Cheshire
- Chinese: 柴郡
- Chinese: 車士打郡
- Cornish: Cheshire
- Czech: Cheshire
- Danish: Cheshire
- Dutch: Cheshire
- Egyptian Arabic: تشيشير
- English: Ceremonial County Cheshire
- English: Ches.
- English: County Palatine of Chester
- English: County of Chester
- Esperanto: Cheshire
- Estonian: Cheshire
- Finnish: Cheshire
- French: Cheshire
- Galician: Cheshire
- German: Cheshire
- German: County of Chester
- Greek: Τσέσιρ
- Hakka Chinese: Cheshire
- Hausa: Cheshire
- Hebrew: צ'שייר
- Hindi: चेशायर
- Hungarian: Cheshire
- Icelandic: Cheshire
- Ido: Cheshire
- Indonesian: Cheshire
- Interlingua: Cheshire
- Irish: Cheshire
- Italian: Cheshire
- Japanese: チェシャー
- Korean: 체셔주
- Kurdish: Cheshire
- Ladin: Cheshire
- Latin: Cestrensis comitatus
- Latvian: Češīra
- Lithuanian: Češyras
- Luxembourgish: Cheshire
- Macedonian: Чешир
- Manx: Cheshire
- Marathi: चेशायर
- Min Nan Chinese: Cheshire
- Mirandese: Cheshire
- Northern Frisian: Cheshire
- Norwegian: Cheshire
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cheshire
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cheshire
- Occitan (post 1500): Cheshire
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ceasterscīr
- Ossetian: Чешир
- Persian: چشر
- Polish: Cheshire
- Portuguese: Cheshire
- Romanian: Cheshire
- Russian: Чешир
- Scots: Cheshire
- Serbian: Чешир
- Serbo-Croatian: Cheshire
- Slovak: Cheshire
- Slovenian: Cheshire
- Spanish: Cheshire
- Swedish: Cheshire
- Tajik: Чешир
- Thai: เชชเชอร์
- Turkish: Cheshire
- Turkish: Törensel Cheshire Kontluğu
- Uighur: Chéshir
- Ukrainian: Чешир
- Urdu: چیشائر
- Vietnamese: Cheshire
- Volapük: Cheshire
- Waray (Philippines): Cheshire
- Welsh: Swydd Gaer
- Western Frisian: Cheshire
- Western Panjabi: چیشائر
- Wu Chinese: 切斯特郡
- Yiddish: טשעשיר
- Yue Chinese: 車士打郡
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