WIRAL, (Cheshire) or WIREHAL, a slip of land from Chester to the sea, 16 m. long, and 8 broad, in the W. part of the Co.
bet. the Dee and the Mersey, was a forest, till disforested by Edward III. and now 'tis a fertile, populous tract,
supplied with vast plenty of fish from those two rs. and the sea on the W.