Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/32


 * ...that when Methodist George Whitefield preached in Nantwich, a mob tried to disperse his audience with a bull, but a Methodist Chapel (pictured) later became the town's largest chapel?
 * ...that Tatton Hall contains ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
 * ...that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa, overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009?
 * ...that the excavation at Norton Priory in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation?

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