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=== Literary locales === | === Literary locales === |
Revision as of 14:30, 16 June 2017
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-16.
County description
The Historic Counties Trust describes Cheshire as follows:
West to east, Cheshire reaches from the windswept Wirral peninsula up into the Peak District. The north encompasses industrial towns and the suburbs from Manchester and Liverpool, fading into the agricultural south of the county. Cheshire has been called "the Surrey of the North". The City of Chester retains many mediæval features, including the only surviving complete town wall walk. Inland Cheshire forms a vast plain separating the mountains of Wales from the Peak District of Derbyshire. In the Cheshire plain are fine oak woodlands and countless small lakes or meres. At the county's western extremity is the Wirral, a flat peninsula some 12 miles long by 7 miles wide separating the Dee and the Mersey. The Wirral is now largely urbanized. At its easternmost extremity the parish of Tintwistle runs up into the Peaks; a narrow strip between Derbyshire and Lancashire. Cheshire excels in dairy farming, resulting in Cheshire cheese. Much of central Cheshire is a salt-mining area, as it has been since Saxon times, chiefly around Nantwich, Northwich and Middlewich. There are also coal and iron mines.
Main Towns: Altrincham, Birkenhead, Chester, Crewe, Halton, Hoylake, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Sale, Stalybridge, Stockport, Wilmslow.
Main Rivers: Dee, Mersey, Weaver, Dane.
Highlights: Alderley Edge; Chester; Little Moreton Hall; Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Highest Point: Black Hill, 581.56 m.
Area: 2659.92 km.[1]
Chronology
18th century
Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 18th century.
19th century
Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 19th century.
- Higher Robin Hood Field (Helsby)
- Ivanhoe (Hartford)
- Little John Croft (Antrobus)
- Little John Field (Coppenhall Moss)
- Little Robin Hood Hay (Agden)
- Lower Robin Hood Field (Helsby)
- Robin Hood (Cheadle Heath)
- Robin Hood (Congleton)
- Robin Hood (Helsby)
- Robin Hood (Stockport)
- Robin Hood (Wharton)
- Robin Hood Croft (Tilstone Fearnall)
- Robin Hood Field (Helsby)
- Robin Hood Green (Lostock Gralam)
- Robin Hood Hay (Agden)
- Robin Hood Inn (Hazel Grove)
- Robin Hood Inn (Rainow)
- Robin Hood Lane (Helsby)
- Robin Hood's Bow Stones (Lyme Handley)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (1)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (2)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (3)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (4)
- Robin Hood's Cottage (Knutsford)
- Robin Hood's Well (Knutsford)
- Robin Hood's Well (Little Budworth)
- Robinhood (Sutton)
- Robinhood Farm (Lostock Gralam)
- Robinhood Pool (Hazel Grove)
20th century
Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 20th century.
21st century
Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 21st century.
Unknown century
0 Robin Hood-related place-names whose century of first occurrence is unknown.
Literary locales
Literary locales etc. in the historical West Riding of Yorkshire.
All localities
- Dipping Stone (Whaley Moor)
- Higher Robin Hood Field (Helsby)
- Ivanhoe (Hartford)
- Little John Croft (Antrobus)
- Little John Field (Coppenhall Moss)
- Little Robin Hood Hay (Agden)
- Lower Robin Hood Field (Helsby)
- Lower Robin Hood Lane (Helsby)
- Loxley Hall (Helsby)
- Plumpton Park (Baddington)
- Robin Hood (Cheadle Heath)
- Robin Hood (Congleton)
- Robin Hood (Helsby)
- Robin Hood (Mottram Moor)
- Robin Hood (Stockport)
- Robin Hood (Wharton)
- Robin Hood Avenue (Sutton)
- Robin Hood Croft (Tilstone Fearnall)
- Robin Hood Farm (Mottram Moor)
- Robin Hood Field (Helsby)
- Robin Hood figure (Mottram Moor)
- Robin Hood Green (Lostock Gralam)
- Robin Hood Hay (Agden)
- Robin Hood House (Lostock Gralam)
- Robin Hood Inn (Hazel Grove)
- Robin Hood Inn (Rainow)
- Robin Hood Lane (Helsby)
- Robin Hood's Bow Stones (Lyme Handley)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (1)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (2)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (3)
- Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (4)
- Robin Hood's Cottage (Knutsford)
- Robin Hood's Tump (Tilstone Fearnall)
- Robin Hood's Well (Knutsford)
- Robin Hood's Well (Little Budworth)
- Robinhood (Sutton)
- Robinhood Farm (Lostock Gralam)
- Robinhood Pool (Hazel Grove)
- Sherwood Grove (Helsby)
- Sherwood Road (Sutton)
Place-name clusters
Clusters of Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in Cheshireplace-names.
Lists and gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 295
- Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997).
Background
- British History Online: Victoria County History – Cheshire
- The Historic Counties Trust: Historic Counties Descriptions
- Wikipedia: Cheshire.
Notes
- ↑ The Historic Counties Trust has kindly allowed me to quote its county descriptions in toto. I have converted square miles to km2 and feet to m.