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During the [[Iron Age]] (c. 1200 – c. 550 BC), several hill forts were constructed in present-day Cheshire, including two at Frodsham: Helsby Hillfort and Woodhouse Hillfort.
During the [[Iron Age]] (c. 1200 – c. 550 BC), several hill forts were constructed in present-day Cheshire, including two at Frodsham: Helsby Hillfort and Woodhouse Hillfort.
Around the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, most of present-day Cheshire formed part of the territory of the Brittonic Celtic tribe [[Cornovii]], which was centred on present-day [[Shropshire]] and also covered neighbouring areas of what is now [[Staffordshire]], [[Herefordshire]], and the Welsh counties of [[Denbighshire]], [[Flintshire]], [[Montgomeryshire]] and [[Radnorshire]]. Their capital may have been at [[the Wrekin]] in Shropshire. Northern Cheshire may have been within the territory of the neighbouring tribe [[Brigantes]], which covered the majority of what is now the [[Northern England|North]] and North Midlands of England. The Romans arrived in the territory of the Cornovii in 47 AD, when a Roman army, Legio XIV Gemina, stormed the Wrekin. By c. 70 AD, Rome had established a fortress and town at the site of present-day Chester called Deva Victrix.
Following the Norman conquest of 1066 by [[William the Conqueror]], dissent and resistance continued for many years after the invasion and Cheshire, being a remote part of the kingdom, far from centres of power in Normandy and the south-east of England, provided persistent resistance to the Normans. In 1069 local resistance in Cheshire was finally put down using harsh, [[genocide]]-like measures, referred to by historians as the [[Harrying of the North]] (1069-1070). The ferocity of the campaign against the English populace was enough to end all future resistance. Major local landowners such as [[Edwin, Earl of Mercia]] (died 1071), had their properties confiscated and redistributed among Norman barons.
Following the Norman conquest of 1066 by [[William the Conqueror]], dissent and resistance continued for many years after the invasion and Cheshire, being a remote part of the kingdom, far from centres of power in Normandy and the south-east of England, provided persistent resistance to the Normans. In 1069 local resistance in Cheshire was finally put down using harsh, [[genocide]]-like measures, referred to by historians as the [[Harrying of the North]] (1069-1070). The ferocity of the campaign against the English populace was enough to end all future resistance. Major local landowners such as [[Edwin, Earl of Mercia]] (died 1071), had their properties confiscated and redistributed among Norman barons.