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
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