I think you’d be better using the historic counties map rather than a church diocese one to be honest.
If you include Cheshire on the Midlands side, then that’s basically the border between Mercia and Northumbria.
Both “Mercia” and “Mersey” come from the same root word meaning “border”, which became the modern English word “mark”; the former being a frontier kingdom between the recently arrived Anglian Germans in Icenia and Cambrian Celts of Powys, and the latter being the aforementioned border between Mercia and Northumbria.
However, that boundary between the Mersey and Humber predates both kingdoms as it’s been used since Roman occupation to distinguish between the provinces of Britannia Flavia and Britannia Maxima.
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I think you’d be better using the historic counties map rather than a church diocese one to be honest.
If you include Cheshire on the Midlands side, then that’s basically the border between Mercia and Northumbria.
Both “Mercia” and “Mersey” come from the same root word meaning “border”, which became the modern English word “mark”; the former being a frontier kingdom between the recently arrived Anglian Germans in Icenia and Cambrian Celts of Powys, and the latter being the aforementioned border between Mercia and Northumbria.
However, that boundary between the Mersey and Humber predates both kingdoms as it’s been used since Roman occupation to distinguish between the provinces of Britannia Flavia and Britannia Maxima.
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