Items in Cheshire taken from Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870) (results page 1)

Cheshire, a western county of England, between the Mersey and the Dee, the chief mineral products of which are coal and rock-salt, and the agricultural, butter and cheese; has numerous manufacturing towns, with every facility for inter-communication, and the finest pasture-land in England.

Population (1907) 730,000

From Nuttall Encylopædia, 1907