Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/4

...that St John the Evangelist's Church (pictured) in the village of Sandiway was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
...that the Bear and Billet, now a public house in Chester, was originally the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury?
...that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes?
...that inmates of Nantwich Workhouse could be confined in a dungeon for drinking tea?

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