Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/58

...that in 1595, the Chantry House (pictured) in Bunbury was leased for 2,000 years for the rent of a red rose?
...that St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton, is one of the oldest timber-framed churches in Europe?
...that the Cheshire West and Chester Council election was the only one in the 2015 UK local elections in which Labour won control of a Conservative council?
...that Margaret Ursula Jones directed work at Mucking, the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Britain, for thirteen years, while living on site year round in a small caravan?

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