Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/61

...that Ball Farm (pictured), in the small Cheshire village of Hankelow, dates from 1510 and might once have been used as a district court?
...that journalist Alice E. Gillington lived with Gypsies but did not want them to know she was writing about them?
...that Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden has ponds which were originally marl pits?
...that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hale is the grave of John Middleton, who was reputed to have been over 9 feet (3 m) tall?

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