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...that the Lyme Caxton Missal (page pictured), on display at Lyme Park, is the only near-complete existing copy of the earliest known edition of a missal according to the Sarum Rite?
...that when the Water Tower in Chester was built in 1322–25 it stood in the River Dee, but it is now about 200 yards (183 m) inland due to silting of the river?
...that the schools designed by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster in Eccleston and Waverton are considered to be the best of Douglas's village schools?
...that St Michael's Church, Marbury contains the oldest pulpit in Cheshire?

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