This region in the northwest part of the English Midlands coincides broadly with the Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire National Character Area (NCA) 61.
Over 60 individual water bodies or meres are recognised within the designation alongside a lesser number of peatland sites.
[2] Phase 2 of the Ramsar designation included Rostherne Mere on the northern margin of this area.
A handful of similar meres and mosses are located close by in eastern Wales, notably in Welsh Maelor, within the modern borough of Wrexham.
Reynolds, the latter having collected them into groups in the Ellesmere, Whitchurch, Woore, Delamere, Baschurch, Shrewsbury and Knutsford areas.