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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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