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Cheshire County before 1974
Before Local Government reorganisation in 1974, Cheshire included many more districts and townships than it does today. Many smaller urban and Municipal Boroughs were combined or disappeared altogether. Others were lost to the newly created Greater Metropolitan County of Manchester - these included Marple, Hazel Grove, Bredbury, Romily, Cheadle and Gatley, all of which were incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport (previously a County Borough). Hyde, Denton and Stalybridge were incorporated into newly created Tameside. Altrincham, Sale, Bowden and Hale were similarly absorbed into Trafford. Disley was taken out of Cheshire completely and became part of the High Peak district of Derbyshire.
Pre-1974 Cheshire. © John Moss 2003.Apart from those which were lost to the County, the actual number of Boroughs was also reduced, as shown in the map below.
Post-1974 Map of the County of Cheshire and its Boroughs. © John Moss 2003
Cheshire Today
Cheshire has developed two distinctively different characters - the industrial and the rural. The River Weaver, Northwich and Middlewich have become known for their salt mining, chemicals and soap production, while much of the rest is distinctly agricultural with rolling fields of cattle producing Cheshire milk and cheese as well as potatoes.
Eastham, Ellesmere Port and Runcorn are decidedly industrialised with Ince Power Stations and Petrochemical production facilities at Carrington and Partington dominating the landscape - these facilities were encouraged by the creation of the Manchester Ship Canal that runs along the northern edge of the county from Manchester to Liverpool. Crewe developed intensive railway locomotive engineering (over 2000 locomotives were built there).
Birkenhead on the Wirral saw Camel Laird Shipbuilding dominating Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula (now no longer part of Cheshire County, having been moved into Merseyside).
Rural Cheshire is today a most pleasant and a much sought after place to live. It is reckoned that more millionaires live in the county than in any other in the United Kingdom.
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