Mersey Forest Mersey Forest to plant new trees. The forest falls within the area of the proposed Northern Forest. Mersey Forest The Mersey Forest is a network of woodlands and green spaces being created across Merseyside and North Cheshire by a wide-ranging partnership of different organisations including local authorities, community groups and businesses. The Mersey Forest is the biggest of twelve community forests covering and accessible to a local population of 1.6 million people. It stretches from Sefton to the north of Liverpool and south to Northwich in Cheshire. Delamere Forest in the south of the area being the largest area of
Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere (; 3 October 1811 – 1 August 1887), styled The Honourable from 1821 until 1855, was a British peer and politician. Hugh Colmondeley was the eldest son of Thomas Cholmondeley. His mother was Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, the granddaughter of Prime Minister George Grenville. Baron Delamere was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. In 1848, Cholmondeley married Lady Sarah Hay-Drummond, daughter of Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull; and the couple were childless when she died in 1859. He married again in 1860,