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Cheshire, an area of contrasts - a very rural part of the county with much of its prosperity founded on agriculture. Traditional industries like salt and leather helped towns like Nantwich and Middlewich develop but it was the industrial revolution that was responsible for changing a small village into the railway town of Crewe. |
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| Cheshire landscape is generally low, flat, lush and fertile. The main rivers are the Mersey and the Dee, which separate Cheshire from neighbouring Wales, with the Wirral peninsula dividing the estuaries of the two rivers. The lovely landscape provides ideal conditions for dairy farming. |
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Cheshire has a rich history as well as many attractions. It was made a palatinate by William I and maintained some of its privileges as such until 1830. The numerous, pretty black and white timbered manor houses reveal the county's prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the last century the population of the county greatly increased with the industrialisation and consequent suburbanisation of the Wirral peninsula and the part of Cheshire just South of Manchester. |
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Cheshire is criss-crossed by canals; the Llangollen, the Trent and Mersey, the Shropshire Union and the Macclesfield Canal. It is difficult to travel far without crossing a canal and where there is a canal, there are usually towpaths to walk, anglers fishing, boats to watch and fascinating canal side pubs. Take a walk along a towpath and you will soon experience the tranquillity of Cheshire as well as viewing some of Britain's industrial heritage. |
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