"Cheshire, a palatine and maritime county of England, bounded on
the NW. by the Irish Sea, and bordering on the counties of Lancaster, York,
Derby, Stafford, Salop, Denbigh, and Flint; extreme length, NE. and SW.,
58 miles; extreme breadth, 40 miles; average breadth 18 miles; area, 657,123
acres; population 644,037. Cheshire forms, towards the Irish Sea, a flat
peninsula, the Wirrall [sic] (12 miles by 7 miles), between the estuaries
of the Mersey and the Dee, and inland a vast plain separating the mountains
of Wales from those of Derbyshire. "
from Bartholemew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887
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