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  2. Ancient parishes of Cheshire - Wikipedia

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    The ancient parishes of Cheshire were the group of parishes that existed in the English county of Cheshire, roughly within the period of 1200–1800. [1] Initially, the ancient parishes had only an ecclesiastical function, but reforms initiated by King Henry VIII, developed by Queen Elizabeth I and expanded by later legislation led them to acquire various secular functions that eventually led ...

  3. Mersey Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Mersey Forest is the biggest of twelve community forests covering 420 square miles (1,100 km 2) and accessible to a local population of 1.6 million people. It stretches from Sefton to the north of Liverpool and south to Northwich in Cheshire. Delamere Forest in the south of the area being the largest area of established woodland. The forest ...

  4. Weaverham - Wikipedia

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    Weaverham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. Just off the A49 , it is just to the west of Northwich and south of the River Weaver , and has a population of 6,589, [ 1 ] decreasing to 6,391 at the 2011 UK Census .

  5. Upton, Merseyside - Wikipedia

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    Upton is a village in the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, England, and is situated within 4 miles (6.4 km) of Birkenhead, 4 miles (6.4 km) of the Dee Estuary, a similar distance from the River Mersey, and 2 miles (3.2 km) from Liverpool Bay. The village is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the metropolitan county of Merseyside

  6. Listed buildings in Weaverham - Wikipedia

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    Apart from the village of Weaverham, the parish is entirely rural, and contains 22 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Most of the buildings are related to houses or farming, and many of the cottages originating in the 17th century are basically timber-framed .

  7. List of local nature reserves in England - Wikipedia

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    Chevin Forest Park: Leeds: Chigwell Row Wood: Epping Forest: Children's Wood/Riverside: Somerset: Childwall Woods and Fields: Liverpool: Chineham Woods (including Great Sorrells, Tollhouse, Guinea & Long copses) Basingstoke & Deane: Chinthurst Hill: Surrey: Chiswick Eyot: London Borough of Hounslow: Choppington Community Woods: Northumberland ...

  8. Cuddington, Eddisbury - Wikipedia

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    Cuddington and Sandiway have been villages since Delamere Forest covered an area from the southern boundary of Frodsham and the Mersey all the way towards Tarporley. There is a Bronze Age burial ground in Norley , another local village, and Iron Age hillforts at Eddisbury and Oakmere .

  9. Delamere Forest - Wikipedia

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    Delamere Forest forms part of the Mersey Forest, an initiative to increase woodland coverage in areas close to urban communities. [3] [23] Nearly all the Forestry Commission land is open access land under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. [24] [25] A few small additional areas contiguous with the Forestry Commission land are also ...