Cheshire Plain
The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of
Mersey Valley in the north to the Shropshire Hills in the south, bounded by the hills of North Wales to the west and the foothills of the Pennines to the north-east.[1] The Wirral Peninsula lies to the north-west whilst the plain merges with the South Lancashire Plain in the embayment occupied by Manchester to the north. In detail, the plain comprises two areas with distinct characters, the one to the west of the Mid Cheshire Ridge
and the other, larger part, to its east.
The plain is the surface expression of the
glacial till
and extensive tracts of glacio-fluvial sand and gravel.
The primary agricultural use of the Cheshire Plain is
hedgerow
fields.
Meteorologists use the term Cheshire Gap when referring to the lowlands of the Cheshire Plain, providing as they do a passage between the Clwydian Hills, in Wales on the one hand and the Peak District and South Pennines on the other. Weather systems are often guided down this "gap", penetrating much further inland than elsewhere along the coast of the Irish Sea.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Natural England - Cheshire". Natural England. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
- ^ "Cheshire Plain Gap In Action". Metcheck. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
53°12′N 2°28′W / 53.200°N 2.467°W
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