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Sankey Canal and Sankey Brook

...that Sankey Valley Park, Warrington (pictured) follows the course of the historical Sankey Canal, England's first canal?

...that Ranulf le Meschin ruled Cumberland before becoming Earl of Chester in 1120?

...that in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge, and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it?

...that the medieval bylaw that states any Welshman loitering within Chester city walls after sunset may be shot with a longbow has never been officially repealed?

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