Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/9


 * ...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester (pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
 * ...that in Grosvenor Park, in the city of Chester, is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church?
 * ...that the Boer War Memorial in Winsford records the names of those who served in the conflict and survived as well as those who were lost?
 * ...that Churche's Mansion, Nantwich, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander, a traditional protection against fire?

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