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Recent History Of Cheshire

By Devinder Patel

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Still existing are buildings that were made in the 15th to 17th centuries out of timber, and now found mostly in the south of the county. Also including the moated massive houses such as Little Moreton Hall, which was erected around 1450, and many residential and commercial buildings in Chester e.g. Nantwich and surrounding villages.

The brick buildings were erected 17th and 18th centuries. Some of them still exist e.g. Tattenhall and Pied Bull Hotel in Chester, Peover Hall near Macclesfield, Arley Hall near Northwich, Willington Hall. From Victorian era these brick buildings were constructed and some industrial buildings, like the Macclesfield silk mills are also made in brick. Photo showing parts of the Cheshire Plain overlooking the Mid-Cheshire Ridge. Beeston Castle left and Peckforton Castle right background are also visible

Beautiful photograph showing parts of a Cheshire Plain, viewing from the Mid-Cheshire Ridge.

Dividing the hills of North Wales, Cheshire covers a clay plain with many boulders and the Peak District of Derbyshire (also known as Cheshire gap). This was created after the withdrawal of ice age glaciers that left the area marked with kettle holes, (locals refer them as meres). The solid rocks of this area are almost fully Triassic sandstone, especially at Runcorn, which provides this exclusive red stone for Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral.

In the eastern side of this county stands Upper Triassic Mercia, mudstone mixed with huge salt deposits that were mined for centuries around Northwich. A significant Sandstone Ridge divides this area from Lower Triassic Sherwood sandstone to the west. A 51 km (32-mile), Sandstone Trail, follows this ridge from Frodsham to Whitchurch passing Beeston Castle Delamere Forest, and earlier forts belonging to Iron Age. The economy of Cheshire is different with significant sectors including tourism, agriculture, bio-technology, automotive, chemical, financial services, ICT, food and drink. The county is also famous for the producing Cheshire cheese, salt and silk.

Mainly a rural county Cheshire and with a great density of villages. Most of agriculture is related to the dairy trade and cattle being leading livestock. Holdings by EC farm type in 2005 say, 11.78 km² allocated to cattle and sheep, with another 8.51 km² was allocated to diary farming. The chemical industry started functioning in the Roman times in Cheshire and it was founded with the digging of salt in Middlewich. Northwich. British Salt is still digging in this area. Thus salt mining continued and it attracted chemical industry around Northwich and with Brunner Mond located in the town. Many chemical companies, have plants at Runcorn, including Ineos ( ICI). The World famous Shell Stanlow Refinery is at Ellesmere Port. This oil refinery is in operation since 1924 and has a huge capacity of 12 million tons a year.

Crewe used to be heart of the Britain's railway industry and still remains a major railway crossing. Crewe railway works was built in 1840 and it employed 20,000 people when it was at its peak, however this number has decreased to less than 1000 in present times. Bentley motor cars are manufactured in Crewe. Also within this County are manufacturing plants of Jaguar and Vauxhall Motors which are located in Ellesmere Port.

An aircraft industry is also located in this county at Woodford Aerodrome with the BAE (Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering) Systems facility. This facility helped in designing and constructing Avro Lancaster and Avro Vulcan bombers aircrafts and very special Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod. The place where Cheshire borders are shared with Flintshire, is the Broughton aircraft factory, more recently they have collaborated with Airbus.

Tourism inndustry is flourishing strongly in Cheshire from both within the UK and abroad. In 2003 over 2.8 million visits to Cheshire were written down and over 8 million nights of accommodation (both UK and abroad).

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