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From: JNugent on 8 Jul 2010 15:56
Nick Finnigan wrote:
> JNugent wrote:
>>
>> Writing as a Lancastrian, born and bred (even if born less than a mile
>> within the county), I'd be interested to know what time period is
>> being referenced with the statement that everything south of the
>> Ribble was once in Cheshire.
>
> Basically, before Lancashire was founded in the 12th century.
> I think it would have been the hundreds of West Derby and Salford.

But Cheshire wasn't a county (then) either.
From: Steve Firth on 8 Jul 2010 20:26
JNugent <jenningsltd(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Steve Firth wrote:
>
> > JNugent <jenningsltd(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> >> Writing as a Lancastrian, born and bred (even if born less than a mile
> >> within the county), I'd be interested to know what time period is being
> >> referenced with the statement that everything south of the Ribble was
> >> once in Cheshire.
>
> > From the Domesday book to the middle of the 12th Century, approximately.
>
> I can't agree.

<shrug> You have the right to be wrong, and you frequently exercise that
right.
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