Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/3

• ...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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