County where treasury cut rent (8)
I believe the answer is:
cheshire
'county' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'treasury cut rent' is the wordplay.
'treasury cut' becomes 'ches' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rent' becomes 'hire' (rent can mean to hire something out).
'ches'+'hire'='CHESHIRE'
'where' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cheshire that I've seen before include "Riches he found with the . . . . . . . . Cat from 'Alice in Wonderland'" , "Crumbly type of cheese" , "part of England" , "Crumbly cheese from English county" , "Crumbly cheese from northwest England" .)