Cestre Scire 1086  ‘Province of the City of Chester’ (Chester = ‘Roman town or city’)

“I was travelling from Crewe to Runcorn on the 29th May. There were six girls in the carriage with me all wearing oak leaves and two of them carrying bunches of nettles. On being asked what the nettles were for, they said, “To beat those who have no oak”.

Bye-Gones (1889-90)