The history of Cheshire can be traced back to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP. Primitive tools that date to that period have been found. Stone Age remains have been found showing more permanent habitation during the Neolithic period, and by the Iron Age the area is known to have been occupied by the Celtic Cornovii tribe and possibly the Deceangli.The Romans occupied Cheshire for almost 400 years, from 70 AD, and created the town and fort of Deva Victrix, now Chester. After the Romans withdrew, Cheshire formed part of Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, that saw invasions from the Welsh and Danes. The Norman Conquest in 1070 saw Cheshire harshly ruled by the occupiers. Local people resented the invaders and rebelled. War again swept the county during the English Civil War in 1642, despite an attempt by local gentry to keep the county neutral. The Industrial Revolution saw population changes in Cheshire as farm workers moved to the factories of Manchester and Lancashire. In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a resurgence in the country houses of Cheshire and canals and railways were built. Contemporary Cheshire is now a ceremonial county administered by four unitary authorities; Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, and Warrington. (Warrington, formerly in Lancashire, was added to Cheshire in 1974.) Cheshire retains the offices of Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff for ceremonial purposes. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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The Magna Carta of Cheshire
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Roman Nantwich: A Salt-Making Settlement. Excavations at Kingley Fields 2002
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Chester: a history
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Pioneers of calico printing on the Cheshire-Derbyshire border.
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A Town in Crisis: Altrincham in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. The 1852 Board of Health Maps and Other Evidence
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A History of the County of Chester. Volume 5 Part 2, the City of Chester
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A Georgian gent and co: the life and times of Charles Roe
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Capital and innovation: how Britain became the first industrial modern nation. A study of the Warrington, Knutsford, Northwich and Frodsham area 1500-1780
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Open-pan salt-making in Cheshire: a memoir by Tom Lightfoot
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The wetlands of Cheshire
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A History of Cheshire
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Lancashire and Cheshire from AD 1540
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The Origins of Cheshire
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East Cheshire Textile Mills
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Palatinate studies: chapters in the social and industrial history of Lancashire and Cheshire
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The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237
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50 years at Crewe: golden anniversary of the Rolls‐Royce factory at Crewe
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A History of the County of Chester. Volume 5 Part 2
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The Victoria County History of Chester. Volume I
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The Ancient Parishes, Townships and Chapelries of Cheshire
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The Castles of Cheshire
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Cheshire and its Rulers
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Poynton, a coalmining village: social history, transport and industry 1700-1939
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The Place-Names of Cheshire Part V (1: ii)
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The Place-Names of Cheshire Part V(1: i)
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The Victoria County History of Chester. Volume II
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Domesday Book Cheshire: including Lancashire, Cumbria and North Wales
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Man's imprint on Cheshire
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Cheshire 1630–1660: County Government and Society during the English Revolution
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Roman Cheshire
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Cheshire Under the Norman Earls, 1066-1237
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Chronology of the railways of Cheshire: dates of incorporation, opening and amalgamation, etc of all lines in the county
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