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Rev. William Cotton, by Margaret Carpenter (1832)

...that Rev. William Cotton (pictured), vicar of Frodsham introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s?
...that after Crewe Hall was gutted by fire in 1866, E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the Jacobean original?
...that under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War?
...that when Chester Cathedral was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century, its exterior was almost completely recased in Runcorn sandstone?

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