Delamere, Cheshire 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 form Delamere and Oakmere; parts also went to Kelsall, Utkinton and Cotebrook and Willington. The civil parish was well known for the Delamere Forest, an
Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere of the attack, Lord Delamere limped for the rest of his life; he also developed a healthy respect for Somalis. It is believed that on one of these Somaliland hunting trips, Delamere coined the term 'white hunter' – the term which came to describe the professional safari hunter in colonial East Africa. Delamere employed a professional hunter named Alan Black and a native Somali hunter to lead the safari. As the story goes, to avoid confusion, the Somali was referred to as the 'black hunter', and Black was called the 'white hunter'. On an expedition in 1896, Delamere, with a