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A map of Cheshire, dated 1923, showing the county's full historical extent before areas were lost to the new metropolitan counties in 1974. In 1874, John Brunner and Ludwig Mond founded Brunner Mond in Winnington near Northwich and started manufacturing soda ash using the Solvay ammonia-soda process. [50] This process used salt as a main raw ...
Cheshire County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,458. [1] Its county seat is the city of Keene. [2] Cheshire was one of the five original counties of New Hampshire, and is named for the county of Cheshire in England. It was organized in 1771 at Keene.
1450: A group of Cheshire gentry successfully petitions the Crown against the introduction of a parliamentary subsidy. [63] 1452, 1455, 1459: Margaret of Anjou visits Chester. [54] [64] 23 September 1459: Many Cheshire gentry killed fighting on both sides in the Battle of Blore Heath, early in the Wars of the Roses. [65] 1470: Edward IV visits ...
At the time of the Domesday Book, northern England comprised Cheshire and Yorkshire (with the north-east being unrecorded). The remaining counties of the north (Westmorland, Lancashire, Cumberland, Northumberland and Durham) were established in the 12th century. [3] Rutland was first recorded as a county in 1159. [5]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins. [1] The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, [2] he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the ...
Cheshire, in the Domesday Book was recorded as a larger county than it is today. [2] There is a small disagreement in published sources about where the northern boundary of Cheshire lay, and some parts of the border areas with Wales were disputed with the predecessors of Wales.
There are more than two hundred scheduled monuments in Cheshire, a county in North West England, which date from the Neolithic period to the middle of the 20th century. This list includes the scheduled monuments in Cheshire dating from before the year 1066, the year accepted by Revealing Cheshire's Past [1] as the start of the Medieval period.