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Until the recent reorganisation of local government, when two largely industrial sectors in the north part of Cheshire were merged with newly-created metropolitan counties, Cheshire’s boundaries had remained unchanged for about 900 years when it was established as a Norman ‘County Palatinate’. In 1974 part of the Wirral was incorporated into Merseyside and the north-east corner of Cheshire became part of Greater Manchester.
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Bax, A., Fairfield, S. (1978). Cheshire. In: The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978–79. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81511-1_6
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