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- Norsemen invaded and occupied the Wirral peninsula during the 9th and 10th centuries, when the historic county of Cheshire first emerged as a subdivision of Mercia.
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A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the City of Chester: General History and Topography. This is the first of two volumes providing an authoritative and detailed treatment of Chester's history, meticulously researched from the original sources. Victoria County History - Chester.
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Until the 19th century what was meant by 'Chester'was unproblematic. The Roman fortress with itsadjacent civilian settlement was succeeded in theearly Middle Ages by a small fortified town on thesame site. Probably in the 10th century two sides of theRoman walls were abandoned, and by the early 12thcentury the circuit of walls had reached its moder...
The Roman name for the fortress built at the head ofthe Dee estuary was Deva, adopted directly from theBritish name of the river, and 'Deverdoeu' was still oneof two alternative Welsh names for Chester in the late12th century. Its other and more enduring Welsh namewas Caerlleon, literally 'the fortress-city of the legions',a name identical with tha...
Chester was for many centuries the most importantplace by far in north-western England. That was largelydue to its location at the crossroads of the British Isles,where routes from southern Britain led into northWales and the Irish Sea. On three occasions its roleas the point of entry into the Irish Sea region for rulersbased in the South made it p...
Chester had no patron from the later Middle Agesonwards to match the Roman army, the 10th-centuryWest Saxon kings, or Edward I, all of whom had putthe city at the centre of national affairs. From the 17thcentury it did, however, have the Grosvenors. Seated atEaton from the earlier 15th century, (fn. 14) holder of abaronetcy from 1622 and a peerage ...
Although Chester has had close links with Wales andIreland at nearly every period, its wider cultural linkshave always been rather meagre. There seems not to havebeen a Jewish community in the Middle Ages. Manxmensettled in Chester from the later Middle Ages, and a fewSpanish merchants visited in the 16th century. Negligible numbers of displaced pe...
Roman Chester is most plausibly represented and bestunderstood as a military depot consisting of a walledfortress with a number of important extramural buildings, notably the amphitheatre, and an attendantcivilian settlement. Archaeological investigations haverevealed more about the fortress than about the townwhich served it. (fn. 28)There were lo...
Sep 30, 2024 · A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 2, the City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions Part 2 of the volume details thematically with the economic, cultural and religious institutions of the city, as well as its local government and public services.
The city of Chester was founded as a fort, known as Deva Vitrix, by the Romans in AD 70s, as early as AD 74 based on discovered lead pipes. The city was the scene of battles between warring Welsh and Saxon kingdoms throughout the post-Roman years until the Saxons strengthened the fort against raiding Danes.
Most of what is now the modern county of Cheshire formed part of the Welsh kingdom of Powys, ruled by the descendants of Cadell, while its north-eastern borders met with those of Elmet and the emerging Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
Mar 14, 2021 · It was made a county in its own right separate from the rest of Cheshire. In 1538 Henry VIII closed the friaries in Chester. In 1540 he closed the nunnery and the abbey and in 1541 Chester abbey was made a cathedral.
Oct 5, 2024 · In 2009 the administrative county of Cheshire, which had comprised six districts—the city of Chester and the boroughs of Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Macclesfield, and Vale Royal —was abolished and reconstituted as two unitary authorities, Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester.
