Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/59

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Brine pump at Warmingham

  • ...that the dairy-farming area of Warmingham is the source of around half the pure salt (brine pump pictured) manufactured in the UK?
  • ...that the 12th-century manuscript De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
  • ...that although Peckforton Castle was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a Norman castle in design and position?
  • ...that the scandalous life of Teresia Constantia Phillips was published in eighteen parts?