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One of the finest churches in Cheshire, St Mary's has a lovely setting overlooking the village green.

It rises to a height of 1125 feet, and from the top it is possible to see right across the Cheshire Plain towards Wales.

It was the production of soap and alkali that became the most important industry here resulting from the proximity of salt from Cheshire and coal from Lancashire.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire.

From here on a clear day the view could be spectacular: the Cheshire Plain with the Mersey beyond.

The church is dedicated to St Wilfrid, and local legend has it that this is where the Cheshire cat originated – there is a carving of a cat on the tower.

At the time these photographs were taken, Warrington was still part of Lancashire but, after the boundaries were changed in the 1970s, it became part of Cheshire.

It is also the home of the oldest alabaster tomb in Cheshire - that of Sir Hugh Calveley - which dates to 1394.

Cheshire's bowmen were the best in England, and land here was granted to two archers in 1365 following the Battle of Poitiers.

Along with Northwich and Nantwich, Middlewich is one of the three salt towns of Cheshire.

Pevsner in The Buildings of England says of Caldy: 'Cheshire is something of a Surrey of the North, but Surrey has nothing to compare with this'.

One of these very similar views shows the town on a bright summer day with the road thronged with vehicles and the pavements, benches and sea wall busy with visitors enjoying the Cheshire sunshine and

It has the characteristic north Cheshire coving under the gable.

In common with most of ecclesiastical sites on the Wirral Peninsula, St Peter's can trace its origins to the original Viking settlers who established a base in West Lancashire and North Cheshire after

Another of Cheshire's cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all

One of the new towns acquired by Cheshire following the border change in 1974, Widnes developed in the 1800s along with the new chemical industries.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire.

It was the production of soap and alkali that became the most important industry here resulting from the proximity of salt from Cheshire and coal from Lancashire.

The town has a very pleasant civic centre and shopping area, but today it has to compete with the large Cheshire Oaks retail outlet nearby.

A border town with a ruinous castle built by Henry III, Hawarden lies close to Chester on the former main road into Wales from the Dee lowlands and the Cheshire Plain.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire.

The main waterway we see here is the Weaver Navigation, built so that the salt boats which floated down the River Weaver from Northwich and Nantwich could get back into those Cheshire towns without fighting

This cluster of sparse conifers in Ampthill Park borders an entrance to the Cheshire Home for the Disabled that occupies a house built in 1686-88 for the Dowager Countess of Ailesbury and Elgin.

Coal mining had been a major industry regionally since the 16th century; the coal had traditionally been transported by packhorse into neighbouring Cheshire and to Liverpool.