Cheshire

This article has not been researched and written yet

This article has not been researched and written yet

This article has not been researched and written yet

This article has not been researched and written yet

Situated at the head of the Dee estuary, 11 miles from the Irish Sea, early-Stuart Chester was the main point in southern Britain for embarkation to Ireland and overland passage into north Wales. VCH Cheshire, v. pt. 1, p. 3; A.M. Johnson, ‘Some Aspects of the Political, Constitutional, Social and Economic History of the City of Chester 1550-1662’ (Oxford Univ. DPhil.

‘Cheshire ... is a county of a fat, fruitful and rich soil, both for tillage and pasturage ... And although (in most places) it is flat and even, yet it is not without several noted hills ... besides the mountains that divide it from the shires of Derby and Stafford’. R. Blome, Britannia (1673), 52, 53. Bounded on its English borders by Lancashire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire and by Wales to the west, Cheshire has traditionally been regarded as an isolated border county, one of ‘dark corners of the land’. Blome, Britannia, 52; G.

Economic and social profile: