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The timeline of Cheshire history shows significant events in the history of the English county of Cheshire.

1–500 AD

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Model of Deva Victrix

7th century

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9th century

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St Werburgh

10th century

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Eddisbury hill fort

11th century

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Chester Castle

12th century

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Remains of Norton Priory

13th century

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Beeston Castle

14th century

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15th century

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16th century

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Little Moreton Hall
Churche's Mansion, Nantwich

17th century

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Crewe Hall

18th century

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Bridgewater Canal in Worsley

19th century

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Anderton Boat Lift

20th century

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Cheshire School of Agriculture

21st century

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See also

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Notes

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  2. ^ Ward 2009, p. 11.
  3. ^ Bu'Lock, pp. 10–14
  4. ^ Ward 2009, p. 23.
  5. ^ Higham, N. J. (1992). "King Cearl, the Battle of Chester and the Origins of the Mercian 'Overkingship'" (PDF). Midland History. 17: 1–15. doi:10.1179/mdh.1992.17.1.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2009.
  6. ^ Bu'Lock, pp. 33–34
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Britannica 1910.
  8. ^ a b c "History of Chester Cathedral". Chester Cathedral. Archived from the original on 12 June 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  9. ^ a b c Bu'Lock, p. 59
  10. ^ Wareham, A. F. (2004). "Plegemund [Plegmund]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22378. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ Bu'Lock, pp. 69–70
  12. ^ Bu'Lock, pp. 51–52, 59
  13. ^ "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (894AD)". Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  14. ^ Ward 2009, p. 31.
  15. ^ Bu'Lock, pp. 53, 59
  16. ^ a b Bu'Lock, pp. 75–76
  17. ^ "Burh at Castle Ditch, Eddisbury". Cheshire.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  18. ^ Starkey 1990, p. 5.
  19. ^ a b c Bu'Lock, pp. 53–54
  20. ^ Ward 2009, p. 27.
  21. ^ Bu'Lock, pp. 54–55
  22. ^ Bu'Lock, p. 55
  23. ^ "Edgar the Peaceful". English Monarchs website. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  24. ^ a b Ward 2009, p. 30.
  25. ^ Bu'Lock, pp. 56, 61
  26. ^ a b Bu'Lock, p. 56
  27. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1007:

    "In this year also was Edric appointed alderman over all the kingdom of the Mercians."
  28. ^ Bu'Lock, p. 57
  29. ^ C. P. Lewis (2004). "Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester (d. 1101)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14056. Retrieved 28 October 2007. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  30. ^ Historic England. "Chester Castle (69135)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  31. ^ Latham, Frank A. (1987). Frodsham: The History of a Cheshire Town. Local Historians. ISBN 0-901993-06-9.
  32. ^ a b Ward 2009, p. 43.
  33. ^ Starkey 1990, p. 9.
  34. ^ a b c "Combermere Abbey timeline". Combermere Abbey. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  35. ^ a b c d e Ward 2009, p. 51.
  36. ^ Ward 2009, p. 46.
  37. ^ a b c Ward 2009, p. 47.
  38. ^ a b c Ward 2009, p. 55.
  39. ^ Robert W. Barrett, Jr (2009). Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656 (PDF). University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-268-02209-9 – via Project MUSE.
  40. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 54.
  41. ^ Fry, Plantagenet Somerset (1980). The David & Charles Book of Castles. David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3.
  42. ^ Ward 2009, p. 37.
  43. ^ a b c d "Cheshire History and the County Palatine of Cheshire, UK". Manchester UK. Archived from the original on 30 March 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  44. ^ Ward 2009, p. 40.
  45. ^ a b Elrington, C.R.; Harris, B. E.; Baggs, A. P.; Kettle, Ann J.; Lander, S. J.; Thacker, A. T.; Wardle, David (1980). Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Vale Royal', A History of the County of Chester. Vol. III. Oxford University Press History. ISBN 0-19-722754-6.
  46. ^ a b Ward 2009, p. 56.
  47. ^ a b c d Driver 1971, p. 50
  48. ^ Ward 2009, p. 41.
  49. ^ Ward 2009, p. 38.
  50. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 56.
  51. ^ Historic England. "Delves Hall (74464)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  52. ^ Booth P. The last week of the life of Edward the Black Prince Archived 25 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Cambridge University Press, 2012
  53. ^ Greene 1989, p. 65
  54. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Driver 1971, p. 38
  55. ^ Davies, R. R. (1971). Richard II and the Principality of Chester in The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack, ed. F. R. H. Du Boulay and Caroline Baron.
  56. ^ Driver 1971, p. 7.
  57. ^ Ward 2009, p. 42.
  58. ^ Driver 1971, p. 54.
  59. ^ Driver 1971, pp. 8–9
  60. ^ Driver 1971, pp. 9–10
  61. ^ Driver 1971, p. 140
  62. ^ Driver 1971, pp. 39–40, 106
  63. ^ Driver 1971, p. 117
  64. ^ Driver 1971, p. 17
  65. ^ Driver 1971, pp. 17–18
  66. ^ Driver 1971, p. 43
  67. ^ a b Driver 1971, p. 31
  68. ^ a b Driver 1971, p. 145
  69. ^ Driver 1971, p. 44
  70. ^ Driver 1971, pp. 28–29
  71. ^ Driver 1971, pp. 149–50
  72. ^ Starkey 1990, pp. 38–39.
  73. ^ a b Ward 2009, p. 58.
  74. ^ Lysons, Daniel (1810). Magna Britannia: pt. 2. The county palatine of Chester. p. 572.
  75. ^ Driver 1971, p. 41
  76. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 15.
  77. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 60.
  78. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 52.
  79. ^ Lake 1983, p. 67.
  80. ^ Beck 1969, p. 75–76.
  81. ^ Lake 1983, pp. 71–90.
  82. ^ Lysons. Magna Britannia: pt. 2. p. 577.
  83. ^ Beck 1969, p. 33.
  84. ^ Historic England. "Crewe Hall (1138666)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  85. ^ a b c Sylvester 1980, p. 83.
  86. ^ "Civil War". National Archives. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  87. ^ Ward 2009, p. 64.
  88. ^ J. R. Phillips (1874). Battle of Middlewich, March 13, 1643 – Sir William Brereton's Account. Document XVI in Memoirs of The Civil Wars in Wales and the Marches, Vol 2. London. pp. 54–55.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  89. ^ "Battle of Nantwich". Nantwich Museum. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  90. ^ Ward 2009, pp. 67–68.
  91. ^ Ward 2009, p. 69.
  92. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 69.
  93. ^ Edwards P (1999), "Cheshire Cheese and Farming in the North West in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Charles F. Foster [Book review]", The Agricultural History Review, 47: 217–18
  94. ^ "Charles Worsley, Major-General, 1622–56". British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website. Archived from the original on 2 October 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  95. ^ "Northwich History". Chester Chronicle. February 2009. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  96. ^ a b Leigh E. Introduction in: A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire (Hamilton, Adams, and Co./Minshull and Hughes; 1877) (accessed 14 July 2010)
  97. ^ Ward 2009, p. 73.
  98. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 95.
  99. ^ Ward 2009, p. 82.
  100. ^ "The Cheshire Hunt". The Cheshire Hunt website. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  101. ^ Starkey 1990, p. 126.
  102. ^ "Trent and Mersey Canal". Cannock Chase District Council. Retrieved 22 May 2010.[permanent dead link]
  103. ^ Ward 2009, p. 88.
  104. ^ a b c d Ward 2009, p. 79.
  105. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 96.
  106. ^ Ward 2009, pp. 80–81.
  107. ^ a b Ward 2009, p. 89.
  108. ^ Starkey 1990, p. 130.
  109. ^ Wilbraham, R. An Attempt at a Glossary of Some Words Used in Cheshire, 2nd ed. (London: T. Rodd; 1826) (various other editions)
  110. ^ Ward 2009, p. 86.
  111. ^ Glancey, Jonathan (6 December 2005). "The beauty of Crewe". Guardian newspaper article. London. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2007.
  112. ^ Latham, ed., 1999, p. 119
  113. ^ Dunn I, The University of Chester, 1839–2008: The Bright Star in the Present Prospect, 2nd edn (Chester: Chester Academic Press, 2008)
  114. ^ Sylvester 1980, p. 90.
  115. ^ a b Sylvester 1980, p. 91.
  116. ^ "About Chetham Society". Chetham Society. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  117. ^ Ward 2009, pp. 90–91.
  118. ^ a b Ward 2009, p. 91.
  119. ^ Ward 2009, p. 92.
  120. ^ "Cheshire Constabulary History". Cheshire Police website. March 2010. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  121. ^ Matthews S (2005), "Cattle Clubs, Insurance and Plague in the Mid-Nineteenth Century", The Agricultural History Review, 53 (2): 192–211, JSTOR 40276026
  122. ^ Ward 2009, p. 95.
  123. ^ Starkey 1990, p. 170.
  124. ^ a b c Sylvester 1980, p. 93.
  125. ^ "Chester Town Hall". Cheshire West and Chester Council. Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  126. ^ "History of Brunner Mond". Brunner Mond website. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
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  128. ^ "About us". Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  129. ^ Ward 2009, p. 99.
  130. ^ "Lancashire Records Office". The National Archives. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  131. ^ "Information Sheet: Eastgate Clock". Cheshire West and Chester. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  132. ^ Starkey 1990, p. 214.
  133. ^ Tigwell 1985, pp. 41–42.
  134. ^ Starkey 1990, p. 218.
  135. ^ "Chester Zoo". The Good Zoo Guide Online. Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  136. ^ Ward 2009, p. 111.
  137. ^ Robert W. Barrett, Jr (2009). Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656 (PDF). University of Notre Dame Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-268-02209-9 – via Project MUSE.
  138. ^ a b c Starkey 1990, p. 222.
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  141. ^ Brown, Fraser; Howard-Davis, Christine (2008). Norton Priory: Monastery to Museum. Excavations 1970–87. Lancaster: Oxford Archaeology North. pp. 2–4. ISBN 978-0-904220-52-0.
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  146. ^ "Fireworks launch for new Mersey bridge". BBC. 14 October 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2019.

References

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  • Beck, J. (1969). Tudor Cheshire. A History of Cheshire, Vol. 7 (Series Editor: J.J. Bagley), Cheshire Community Council, ISBN 0-903119-02-1
  • Bu'Lock, J.D. (1972). Pre-Conquest Cheshire: 383–1066. A History of Cheshire, Vol. 3 (Series Editor: J.J. Bagley), Cheshire Community Council
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1910). "Cheshire" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 89–92.
  • Driver, J.T. (1971). Cheshire in the Later Middle Ages. A History of Cheshire, Vol. 6 (Series Editor: J.J. Bagley), Cheshire Community Council
  • Greene, J. Patrick (1989). Norton Priory: The archaeology of a medieval religious house. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33054-8.
  • Lake, J. (1983). The Great Fire of Nantwich. Shiva Publishing. ISBN 0-906812-57-7.
  • Local History Group, Latham FA. (ed.) (1999). Wrenbury and Marbury. The Local History Group. ISBN 0-9522284-5-9
  • Starkey, H. F. (1990). Old Runcorn. Halton: Halton Borough Council.
  • Sylvester, Dorothy (1980). A History of Cheshire (2nd ed.). London and Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-384-9.
  • Tigwell, RE. (1985). Cheshire in the Twentieth Century. A History of Cheshire, Vol. 12 (Series Editor: JJ Bagley), Cheshire Community Council, ISBN 0-903119-15-3
  • Ward, Simon (2009). Chester: A History. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 978-1-86077-499-7.

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