Description
- The accompanying notes contained in John Cary’s atlas continue: It is 50 miles long from east to west, 33 miles broad from north to south, and 200 miles in circumference; containing 1050 square miles, or 672,000 square acres; divided into 7 hundreds, 101 parishes, 20 vicarages, 670 villages, one city, Chester, which is a bishop’s fee, and gives the title of Earl to the Prince of Wales, as eldest son of the King of England, first conferred in 1247 by Henry III. It sends 2 members to parliament. It has 11 market towns, viz. Nantwich, which gives the title of Viscount to the family of Cholmondeley; Macclesfield, which gives the title of Earl to the family of Parker; Malpas, which gives the title of Viscount to the family of Cholmondeley; Middlewich, Northwich, Congleton, Altrincham, Frodsham, Knutsford, Stockport, and Sandbach. Among the villages, Kinderton gives the title of Baron to the family of Vernon; Cholmondeley, those of Earl and Baron to the noble family of that name; Dutton, that of Baron to the family of Hamilton; Eaton, that of Baron to the family of Grosvenor. The principal rivers all clearly depicted within the old map in this county are the Mersey, Dee, Weelock, Croke, Dan, Fulbrock, Weaver, Goyte, Bolling, and Ringway. It sends 4 members to parliament, 2 for the county, and 2 for Chester as mentioned before; pays 7 parts of the land tax, and provides 560 men to the national militia. On the coast is the Isle of Hilbre, with Black Rock, Barbo, Dove, and Hyle Sands, with Bugg Wharf, and Middle and High Lake; also Warren Bay, with the entrances of the Mersey and Dee Rivers, and a peninsula between both. It enjoys the most extensive and beneficial inland navigation in the kingdom, with the Duke of Bridgewater’s navigation deserving particular attention. Among the other remarkable places are Moncop, Frodsham, Alderney, and Shutling Hills; the forests of Delamere and Macclesfield; with several lakes, meers, pools, heaths, and mosses. It produces excellent cheese, cattle, corn, coal, iron, millstones, timber, an immense quantity of fine salt, alum, hops, etc. The soil is rich and fertile.
The following are the most remarkable seats:
Addington Hall, near Macclesfield
Ashton Hall, near Frodsham
Capesthorne
Cholmondeley, near Malpas
Crewe Hall, near Sandbach
Davenport Hall
Eaton
Henbury Hall, near Macclesfield
Lower Tabley, near Knutsford
Lyme Park, near Disley
Marbury Hall, near Budworth
Mere Hall, near Knutsford
Motham St. Andrew, near Stockport
Oulton Hall, near Tarporley
Poynton, near Stockport
The most remarkable situations for beautiful and extensive views are:
Delamere Forest, northeast of Chester, Goit Vale, Disley Hill, on the road from Buxton to Manchester and Haughton Castle.
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