Portal:North West England/Did you know
- ...that most of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?
- ...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
- ...that county palatines, autonomous areas ruled by a count palatine with special quasi-royal authority, were first created in the 11th-century Kingdom of England to defend the Scottish and Welsh frontiers and still formerly exist in the modern UK in County Durham, Cheshire, and Lancashire?
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Portal:North West England/Did you know/1
- ...that most of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/2
- ...that in 1806, Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/3
- ...that St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade I listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/4
- ...that the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/5
- ...that Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/6
- ...that Greater Manchester has nine castles, of which five are Scheduled Ancient Monuments?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/7
- ...that because of its unique geology, a 230 hectare area of Rosthwaite Fell in Cumbria, England was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/8
- ...that under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/9
- ...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/10
- ...that George Ormerod, an English antiquarian and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire, England in 1816?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/11
- ...that the Liverpool Scottish, a unit of the British Territorial Army, was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool, England?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/12
- ...that the Beatles' song "Polythene Pam" was partly inspired by a Liverpool fan who ate polyethylene?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/13
- ...that the Church of St James the Great, Haydock, Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/14
- ...that county palatines, autonomous areas ruled by a count palatine with special quasi-royal authority, were first created in the 11th-century Kingdom of England to defend the Scottish and Welsh frontiers and still formerly exist in the modern UK in County Durham, Cheshire, and Lancashire?
Portal:North West England/Did you know/15
- ...that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?
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