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Ruins of Rocksavage c. 1818

...that the ruined Elizabethan mansion of Rocksavage (pictured) in Runcorn was once the second-largest house in Cheshire?
...that the Three Old Arches in Chester has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England?
...that St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II?
...that for security reasons, the findings relating to uranium in John Holt's 1941 PhD thesis on artificial radioactivity were not released?

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