Delamere, Cheshire On Pale Heights (National Grid ) was the origin (meridian) of the first Ordnance Survey one inch mapping of the whole of the United Kingdom. Delamere, Cheshire Delamere is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Delamere and Oakmere, in the county of Cheshire, England. It is approximately west of Northwich, within the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,025. The name of the village comes from the French "de la mere" "of the lake". The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to
Delamere Forest amounts of sand and gravel across an extensive outwash fan on the eastern side of the ridge. The soils are very varied, including brown earths, podsols, peats and gleys. One valley adjacent to the railway line has eight different soil types within a small area, and hosts a soil trail. This part of Delamere Forest is undulating in character, with elevations predominantly in the range 60–90 metres. It is composed of numerous hummocks and peatland basins, some of which are glacial in origin while others have been created by sand extraction. The basins form lakes and mosses (bogs) within the