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 (circa 1900) given as 730,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cheselden, William * Cheshunt