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Charles E. Kelsey. Cheshire
Cheshire
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. POSITION AND NATURAL FEATURES OF CHESHIRE
CHAPTER II. THE MAKING OF CHESHIRE. I. The Newer Rocks
CHAPTER III. THE MAKING OF CHESHIRE (cont.). II The Older Rocks
CHAPTER IV. EARLY INHABITANTS OF CHESHIRE
CHAPTER V. THE ROMANS IN CHESHIRE. I
CHAPTER VI. THE ROMANS IN CHESHIRE. II
CHAPTER VII. SAXONS AND ANGLES COME TO CHESHIRE
CHAPTER VIII. THE CROSS IN CHESHIRE
CHAPTER IX. THE COMING OF THE NORTHMEN
CHAPTER X. THE NORMANS COME TO CHESHIRE
CHAPTER XI. THE NORMAN ABBEYS AND CHURCHES OF CHESHIRE
CHAPTER XII. THE EARLS OF THE COUNTY PALATINE
CHAPTER XIII. THE CHURCHES OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XIV. GROWTH OF TOWNS IN CHESHIRE
CHAPTER XV. EDWARD THE FIRST AND CHESHIRE
CHAPTER XVI. THE COMING OF THE FRIARS
CHAPTER XVII. A DEPOSED KING
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RIVAL ROSES
CHAPTER XIX. CHURCHES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER XX. THE REFORMATION AND THE GREAT AWAKENING
CHAPTER XXI. ELIZABETHAN CHESHIRE. I
CHAPTER XXII. ELIZABETHAN CHESHIRE. II
CHAPTER XXIII. THE RULE OF THE STUARTS
CHAPTER XXIV. CIVIL WAR IN CHESHIRE. I. The Battles of Middlewich and Nantwich
CHAPTER XXV. CIVIL WAR IN CHESHIRE. II. A Memorable Siege
CHAPTER XXVI. CIVIL WAR IN CHESHIRE. III. The Protectorate and the Restoration
CHAPTER XXVII. THE FALL OF THE STUARTS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I
CHAPTER XXIX. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. II
CHAPTER XXX. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. I
CHAPTER XXXI. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. II
CHAPTER XXXII. THE RAILWAYS OF CHESHIRE
CHAPTER XXXIII. PROGRESS AND REFORM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE REIGN OF A GREAT QUEEN
CHAPTER XXXV. FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF CHESHIRE
CHAPTER XXXVI. CONCLUSION
INDEX
Footnote
Some Oxford Books. on. HISTORY
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Charles E. Kelsey
Published by Good Press, 2021
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These beds of sandstone are really wide stretches of the sandy shores of an ancient sea, which have been pressed into a solid substance by the weight of other layers of rock deposited over them in later ages. Thus they belong to a group of what are called 'water-laid' rocks. We know that seas once flowed over them because some of the beds show the ripple-marks that we see so often in the sands when walking by the sea-shore. A fearful looking monster, with the equally terrible name of labyrinthodont, in appearance rather like a gigantic frog, has left his 'footprints in the sands' in the rocks near Lymm and Weston. You will probably not be able to find these footprints, but in the museums at Manchester and Warrington you may see them on large slabs of sandstone rock. How would you like to meet one of these reptiles to-day, wallowing in the mud on the shores of some Cheshire mere? On the same slabs you will see suncracks which tell us of the baking of sand and mud in the sun's rays when the tide has gone down.
The lower layers of the New Red Sandstone are of a paler colour, light brown or almost white. To these the name of 'Bunter' has been given to distinguish them from the upper and therefore later deposits known as 'Keuper' sandstone. The Bunter beds are found chiefly in the west of the county, and in Wirral, where you may see the Keuper rocks of Storeton Hill sticking up above the layers of Bunter stone that surround and underlie them.
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