PRESENTED BY THE DOMESDAY BOOK OF DOGS Shropshire Terrier. Cheshire Terrier. Cheshire Bull Terrier. Head study of possible Shropshire or Cheshire terrier. Henry Calvert. The Shropshire and Cheshire terrier was a variety of fox terrier that, according to S. W. Smith, who managed to study somewhere between fifty to 100 dogs, was unlike anything we might expect of a typical fox terrier having a shorter muzzle and rounder head. This appeared to show bulldog or bull terrier blood somewhere in their ancestry. All were dead game and perhaps because of this bulldog influence all undershot individuals were culled. This earth dog was slightly longer than it was tall with a weight of up to 16lb with the occasional individual weighing under 14lbs. Smith's description of Squire Domville Poole's dogs of Mayberry Hall, Shropshire is supplied by Lee, 1896. Smith goes on to say the majority of the terriers were smooth-coated light-coloured with no black at all in their pelage, and s...