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Cheshire is a county in north west . It shares borders with and in the north, in the east, and in the south, and the county of to the west.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Chester and Warrington.

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is a very pretty and historic city on the river Dee, and the county town of the North-Western county of Cheshire. Although maybe not worth a whole holiday, it's well worth a day or overnight trip to see the Roman ruins and medieval city centre.

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is an industrial town in Cheshire, with a population in 2020 of 172,330. Motorway traffic scoots by and you're only likely to stop here for business, or to watch a rugby league match.

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is a medium-sized town in South Cheshire. It boasts friendly people, inexpensive hotels and eateries. It is famed for its railway connections and also as the home of Rolls Royce, though the factory is now operated by Bentley Motors.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Runcorn and Macclesfield.

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The industrial inland port of is a treasure trove of architectural styles, from medieval ruins to 1970s utopia. Its impressive bridges across the River Mersey mark the gateway north to cosmopolitan and south to leafy Cheshire.

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is a market town in Cheshire where the Cheshire plain gives way to the . It is home to the biennial Barnaby Festival. is the original home of the very popular brand of bread, Hovis.

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is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Cheshire, . It lies on the , at the confluence of the rivers and , 18 miles east of , 15 miles south of , 19 miles south of , 69 miles north of , and 36 miles south of .

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is an industrial town in the , Cheshire, , which at the 2021 census had a population of 62,400. Historically in , it is on the northern bank of the where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap.

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is a beautiful historic town in Cheshire. It contains many old buildings which were built after the great fire of in 1583. Someone who is born within the town's boundaries is called a 'Dabber'.

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is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Cheshire, England. The civil parish contains four settlements: , Elworth, Ettiley Heath and .

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is in West Cheshire. Surrounding villages include Willaston, Neston, Parkgate, and Hooton.

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is a historic market town in Cheshire East, . As part of the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom competition, has been awarded gold medals in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2022.

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is a very pleasant town of 13,000 people in Cheshire spoilt only by its position under Manchester Airport's flight path.

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is a market town and civil parish in the borough of , in Cheshire, England. It lies 11 miles south of and 7 miles north-west of .

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, until 1974 known as Church Holme, is a village in Cheshire. It's only five miles west of the frontier of the known universe, thanks to Jodrell Bank radio telescope.

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is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England. It is within the part of the that belongs to the unitary authority of .

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is a market town and civil parish in the district of Cheshire, England. It is located 20 miles east of , 3 miles east of , 5 miles south-east of and 5 miles north-west of .

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is a and civil parish in Cheshire, , now in the Borough of Warrington. It incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rush Green and Statham.

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is in Cheshire. The area is popular for walking in the woods and there are far-reaching views from the sandstone ridge.

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is a village in Cheshire. It is near to Beeston Castle, a ruined 13th-century castle, and sits along the Sandstone Trail, a long-distance walkers' path, between Frodsham to Whitchurch.

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WIN-b ree or WIM-b ree is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Cheshire

Latitude of center
53.1667° or 53° 10′ north
Longitude of center
-2.5833° or 2° 35′ west
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
Geo­Names ID
2653234
Wiki­data ID
Q23064
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cheshire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cheshire”
  • Arabic: “تشيشير”
  • Aragonese: “Cheshire”
  • Armenian: “Չեշիր”
  • Asturian: “Cheshire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çeşir”
  • Balinese: “Cheshire”
  • Basque: “Cheshire”
  • Belarusian: “графства Чэшыр”
  • Belarusian: “Чэшыр (гарфства)”
  • Belarusian: “Чэшыр, графства”
  • Belarusian: “Чэшыр”
  • Breton: “Cheshire”
  • Bulgarian: “Чешър”
  • Catalan: “Cheshire”
  • Cebuano: “Cheshire”
  • Chechen: “Чешир”
  • Chinese: “Cheshire”
  • Chinese: “柴郡”
  • Chinese: “車士打郡”
  • Cornish: “Cheshire”
  • Czech: “Cheshire”
  • Danish: “Cheshire”
  • Dutch: “Cheshire”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيشير”
  • Esperanto: “Cheshire”
  • Estonian: “Cheshire”
  • Finnish: “Cheshire”
  • French: “Cheshire”
  • Galician: “Cheshire”
  • German: “Cheshire”
  • German: “County of Chester”
  • Greek: “Τσέσιρ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cheshire”
  • Hebrew: “צ’שייר”
  • Hindi: “चेशायर”
  • Hungarian: “Cheshire”
  • Icelandic: “Cheshire”
  • Ido: “Cheshire”
  • Indonesian: “Cheshire”
  • Interlingua: “Cheshire”
  • Irish: “Cheshire”
  • Italian: “Cheshire”
  • Japanese: “チェシャー”
  • Korean: “체셔주”
  • Kurdish: “Cheshire”
  • Ladin: “Cheshire”
  • Latin: “Cestrensis comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Češīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Češyras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cheshire”
  • Macedonian: “Чешир”
  • Manx: “Cheshire”
  • Marathi: “चेशायर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cheshire”
  • Mirandese: “Cheshire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cheshire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cheshire”
  • Norwegian: “Cheshire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cheshire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ceasterscīr”
  • Ossetian: “Чешир”
  • Persian: “چشر”
  • Polish: “Cheshire”
  • Portuguese: “Cheshire”
  • Romanian: “Cheshire”
  • Russian: “Чешир”
  • Scots: “Cheshire”
  • Serbian: “Чешир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cheshire”
  • Slovak: “Cheshire”
  • Slovenian: “Cheshire”
  • Spanish: “Cheshire”
  • Swedish: “Cheshire”
  • Tajik: “Чешир”
  • Thai: “เชชเชอร์”
  • Turkish: “Cheshire”
  • Turkish: “Törensel Cheshire Kontluğu”
  • Uighur: “Chéshir”
  • Ukrainian: “Чешир”
  • Urdu: “چیشائر”
  • Vietnamese: “Cheshire”
  • Volapük: “Cheshire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cheshire”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Gaer”
  • Western Frisian: “Cheshire”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیشائر”
  • Wu Chinese: “切斯特郡”
  • Yiddish: “טשעשיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “車士打郡”

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