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Methodist Church, Nantwich

...that when Methodist George Whitefield preached in Nantwich, a mob tried to disperse his audience with a bull, but a Methodist Chapel (pictured) later became the town's largest chapel?
...that Tatton Hall contains ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
...that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa, overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009?
...that the excavation at Norton Priory in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation?

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