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Campsites in Cheshire

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Chester Southerly Caravan ParkChester01244 671308Register Your Campsite
Netherwood HouseChester01244 335583Register Your Campsite
Manor Wood Country Caravan ParkChester01829 782990Register Your Campsite
Northwood HallKelsall01829 752569Register Your Campsite
Woodlands ParkKnutsford01565 723429Register Your Campsite
Capesthorne HallMacclesfield01625 861779Register Your Campsite
Yatehouse Farm Caravan ParkMiddlewich01606 833125Register Your Campsite
Elm Beds Caravan & Camping SiteHigher Poynton01625 872370Register Your Campsite
Holly Bank Caravan ParkWarrington0161 775 2842Register Your Campsite
Lamb Cottage Caravan ParkWhitegate01606 882302Register Your Campsite
Acorns Caravan ParkWhitegate01606 882156Register Your Campsite
Elm Cottage Caravan ParkWinsford01829 760544Register Your Campsite

Where is Cheshire?

Map of Cheshire

About Cheshire

Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester) is a county in North West England. The county town, and the location of the county council, is the city of Chester and the rural housing estate of Blacon.

Other major towns include Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Northwich, Warrington and Wilmslow. Cheshire is historically famous for the production of Cheshire cheese.

The county is primarily rural, however places such as Alderley Edge contain concentrations of high net-worth individuals.

History of Cheshire

Cheshire in the Domesday Book was recorded as a much larger county than it is today. Its northern border was the River Ribble, and it was recorded with eighteen hundreds, six of which were north of the River Mersey. It also included the towns of Broughton, Hawarden, Prestatyn and Rhuddlan, now in Wales.

In 1182 the land north of the Mersey became administered as part of the new county of Lancashire instead. Later, the hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan became part of Wales. Over the years the ten hundreds consolidated to just seven — Broxton, Bucklow, Eddisbury, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Northwich, and Wirral.

Through the Local Government Act 1972 which came into effect in 1974, some areas in the north became part of the metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester and Merseyside, particularly Stockport (previously a county borough), Hyde, Dukinfield and Stalybridge in the north-east and much of the Wirral Peninsula in the north-west (including the county boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey). At the same time the Tintwistle Rural District was transferred to Derbyshire. The area of Lancashire south of the Merseyside/Greater Manchester area, including Widnes and the county borough of Warrington was added to the new non-metropolitan county of Cheshire.

Halton and Warrington became unitary authorities independent of Cheshire County Council on 1 April 1998, but remain part of Cheshire for ceremonial purposes, as well as fire and policing.

Geography of Cheshire

Cheshire covers a boulder clay plain separating the hills of North Wales and the Peak District of Derbyshire. This was formed following the retreat of ice age glaciers which left the area dotted with kettle holes, locally referred to as "meres". The bedrock of this region is almost entirely Triassic sandstone, outcrops of which have long been quarried, notably at Runcorn, providing the distinctive red stone for Liverpool Cathedral and Chester Cathedral.

The eastern half of the county is Upper Triassic Mercia mudstone laid down with large salt deposits which were mined for hundreds of years around Northwich. Separating this area from Lower Triassic Sherwood sandstone to the west is a prominent Sandstone Ridge. A 51km footpath, the Sandstone Trail, follows this ridge from Frodsham to Whitchurch passing Delamere Forest, Beeston Castle and earlier iron age forts.