Cheshire West and Chester

unitary authority, England, United Kingdom
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Cheshire West and Chester, unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Cheshire, northwestern England. It is bounded to the north by the unitary authorities of Halton and Warrington, to the east by the unitary authority of Cheshire East, to the southeast by Shropshire, to the west by Wales, and to the northwest by Merseyside and the Dee and Mersey estuaries. The administrative centre is Chester city. The unitary authority, which comprises the former districts of Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, and Vale Royal, was created in 2009 when the former administrative county of Cheshire was restructured. The fertile Chester Plain—including ...(100 of 261 words)