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• ...that in 1806, Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world?

• ...that George Ormerod, an English antiquarian and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire, England in 1816?

• ...that county palatines, autonomous areas ruled by a count palatine with special quasi-royal authority, were first created in the 11th-century Kingdom of England to defend the Scottish and Welsh frontiers and still formerly exist in the modern UK in County Durham, Cheshire, and Lancashire?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/1

• ...that most of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/2

• ...that in 1806, Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/3

• ...that St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade I listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/4

• ...that the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/5

• ...that Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/6

• ...that Greater Manchester has nine castles, of which five are Scheduled Ancient Monuments?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/7

• ...that because of its unique geology, a 230 hectare area of Rosthwaite Fell in Cumbria, England was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/8

• ...that under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/9

• ...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/10

• ...that George Ormerod, an English antiquarian and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire, England in 1816?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/11

• ...that the Liverpool Scottish, a unit of the British Territorial Army, was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool, England?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/12

• ...that the Beatles' song "Polythene Pam" was partly inspired by a Liverpool fan who ate polyethylene?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/13

• ...that the Church of St James the Great, Haydock, Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/14

• ...that county palatines, autonomous areas ruled by a count palatine with special quasi-royal authority, were first created in the 11th-century Kingdom of England to defend the Scottish and Welsh frontiers and still formerly exist in the modern UK in County Durham, Cheshire, and Lancashire?

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Portal:North West England/Did you know/15

• ...that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?

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