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Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster

...that when the Statue of Richard Grosvenor (pictured) was created in the 1860s, it was said to have been the largest sculpture in Britain to be carved from a single block of marble?
...that the design of Henbury Hall, built in the 1980s, is based on Palladio's Villa Rotonda?
...that the mud snail, great raft spider and Enochrus isotae water scavenger beetle, all rare in the UK, have been found in the ponds of Sound Heath?
...that Libby Lane is the first woman to be appointed a bishop by the Church of England?

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