Cheshire
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Cheshire （/ˈtʃɛʃər, -ɪər/ CHESH-ər, -⁠eer; Welsh: Sir Gaer）, archaically the County Palatine of Chester, is a historic county in northwest England.
It is bordered by Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south, and the Welsh local authorities of Flintshire and Wrexham to the west.
Cheshire's county town is Chester, while its largest town by population is Warrington.
Other major towns include Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Northwich, Runcorn, Widnes, Wilmslow, and Winsford.
The county covers 905 square miles （2,344 km2） and has a population of around 1 million.
It is mostly rural, with a number of small towns and villages supporting the agricultural and other industries which produce Cheshire cheese, salt, chemicals, and silk.
It is split into the administrative districts of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Halton, and Warrington.
Cheshire's name was originally derived from an early name for Chester, and was first recorded as Legeceasterscir in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, meaning "the shire of the city of legions".
Although the name first appears in 980, it is thought that the county was created by Edward the Elder around 920.
In the Domesday Book, Chester was recorded as having the name Cestrescir （Chestershire）, derived from the name for Chester at the time.
A series of changes that occurred as English itself changed, together with some simplifications and elision, resulted in the name Cheshire, as it occurs today.
Because of the historically close links with the land bordering Cheshire to the west, which became modern Wales, there is a history of interaction between Cheshire and Nort...