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| Cheshire | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County |
| Region: | North West England |
| Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area | Ranked 25th 2,343 km² Ranked 25th 2,083 km² |
| Admin HQ: | Chester |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-CHS |
| ONS code: | 13 |
| NUTS 3: | UKD22 |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. | Ranked 18th 986,079 421 / km² Ranked 13th 675,803 |
| Ethnicity: | 98.3% White |
| Politics | |
Cheshire County Council http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/ | |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| Members of Parliament | |
| Gwyneth Dunwoody, Mike Hall, Helen Jones, Andrew Miller, Stephen O'Brien, George Osborne, Christine Russell, Helen Southworth, Derek Twigg, Ann Winterton, Nicholas Winterton | |
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Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England. Its county town is the city of Chester. It borders the ceremonial counties of Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire (with Stoke-on-Trent), and Shropshire and the Welsh preserved county of Clwyd.
Some northern parts of the county are effectively suburbs of Manchester or Liverpool, and many of those who work in these cities commute from other parts of the county.
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.
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.
In a local government reform in 1974, some areas near the border with Lancashire became part of the new counties of Greater Manchester and Merseyside, notably Stockport, and the Wirral area around Birkenhead. Also at this time, Cheshire regained Warrington and the surrounding district from Lancshire.
Halton and Warrington became unitary authorities independent of Cheshire on April 1, 1998.
On May 25, 2004 the Boundary Committee for England published its final recommendations for systems of Unitary Authorities to be implemented if proposals for elected Regional Assemblies are approved by referendums in three northern Regions of England. They put forward two options for each County Council area, which the electorate will be asked to choose between at the same time as the Assembly Referendums.
For Cheshire the options are
| Option 1
| Option 1 (left)
| Option 2
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Option 2 (right)
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