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 * ...that scientist Joseph Priestley is believed to have lived at Sweetbriar Hall (pictured), in Nantwich, and another scientist, Sir William Bowman, was born there?
 * ...that although Arley Hall was in Jacobean style, its owner decided that its chapel should be in Gothic style?
 * ...that her experiences with girls on the street led philosopher Bertrand Russell's "stern and gloomy" Aunt Maude to write Clubs for Working Girls?
 * ...that the listed buildings in Lymm include three aqueducts, a cross, a water tower, a well, an icehouse, a pigeon house, a mounting block, a milepost and the stocks?

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