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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.
The River Dee marks the border between Farndon, England, to the left and Holt, Wales, to the right Bilingual "Welcome to Wales" sign Bilingual "Welcome to England" sign. The modern boundary between Wales and England runs from the salt marshes of the Dee estuary adjoining the Wirral Peninsula, across reclaimed land to the River Dee at Saltney just west of Chester.
Description: Map of Cheshire, UK with the following information shown: . Administrative borders; Coastline, lakes and rivers; Roads and railways; Urban areas; Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 165%
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The Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992 [19] Changes to the Ellesmere Port (Cheshire)/Wirral (Merseyside) boundary: Report No. 612: Wirral November 1991 1 April 1992: The Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester and Staffordshire (County Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1992 [20] n/a: n/a 1 April 1993
The ceremonial county of Cheshire is administered by four unitary authorities (click on the map for details): 1 – Cheshire West and Chester. 2 – Cheshire East. 3 – Warrington. 4 – Halton. In the local government reorganisation of 1974, Cheshire gained an area formerly in Lancashire including Widnes and Warrington.
Chester is a city on the River Dee, near the border with Wales. It is the second-largest settlement in Cheshire after Warrington, with a population of nearly 80,000 in 2011, and as of 2019 serves as Cheshire West and Chester's administrative headquarters.
5.1 Location map templates. 5.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/United Kingdom Cheshire. 7 languages.