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Photograph of a three-storey black-and-white shop building on an angle in the street.

...that the bend in the street occupied by Regent House (pictured) in Nantwich follows the line of the outer wall of the town's Norman castle?
...that Tom Brittleton is the oldest footballer ever to play a competitive match for Sheffield Wednesday?
...that Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster persuaded architect John Douglas to add half-timbering to his stone and brick design for 2–18 St Werburgh Street, Chester?
...that Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle?

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