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Location of Cheshire in England. Cheshire is a county in North West England. Rock salt was laid down in this region some 220 million years ago, during the Triassic period. . Seawater moved inland from an open sea, creating a chain of shallow salt marshes across what is today the Cheshire
Cheshire is a county in north-west England, famous for its agricultural industry. Cheshire is active in many key economic areas: automotive, bio-technology, chemical, financial services, food and drink, ICT, and tourism. The county is famous for the production of Cheshire cheese, salt and silk.
The area now forming Cheshire was sparsely populated during the entire prehistoric period compared with southern England. [1] The earliest archaeological evidence of farming dates from the Early Neolithic period (4000–3001 BC); excavations at Oversley Farm near Styal found remains of burnt cereals associated with an Early Neolithic rectangular timber structure. [2]
Open-pan salt production was confined to a few locations where geological conditions preserved layers of salt beneath the ground. Only five complexes of inland open-pan salt works now survive in the world: Lion Salt Works, Cheshire, United Kingdom; Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, Salins-les-Bains, France; [6] Saline Luisenhall, Göttingen, Germany; [7] the Salinas da Fonte da Bica, Rio Maior ...
Winsford Mine (also known as Meadow Bank Mine) is a halite (rock salt) mine in the town of Winsford, Cheshire, England.The mine produces an average of 1,500,000 tonnes (1,700,000 short tons) of rock salt a year, which is used to grit public roads in the United Kingdom during the winter months.
Site of Kinderton Salt Works (1980s) It is likely that this is the only saltworks next to the Roman fort on Harbutt's field. Salt making sites in Cheshire [8] places this site at SJ703668 Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, however the 1882 Ordnance Survey map places the salt pans at approximately SJ7032266605 Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, whilst Middlewich ...
The sting of climate change is often viewed as an issue for future generations and as unimportant as a few degrees of temperature change. But for a region of farmers in the Indian state of Gujarat ...
The area is agricultural, with dairy farming the predominant land use. The Northwich Halite Formation, a Triassic salt field, underlies the parish, and there is a long history of local salt production, with the Warmingham brine field remaining an important source of the mineral. Cavities in the salt-bearing stratum are used to store natural gas.