Portal:England/Did you know/01 2009


 * ... that the production of Swaledale cheese (pictured) includes soaking the cheese wheel in 85 percent brine for 24 hours?
 * ... that North Audley Street in Mayfair, London, is named after the English moneylender Hugh Audley?
 * ... that English dramatist Edward Rose published The Rose Reader, "a new way of teaching to read," that only used words that were spelled as they sounded?
 * ... that the Westminster Retable, a 13th-century panel painting at Westminster Abbey, is the oldest known altarpiece in England?