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Exploring Cheshire: A Quiz on History and Geography

Test your knowledge about Cheshire's history, geography, and notable features with this engaging quiz.

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1 Notable examples include the moated manor house ________, dating from around 1450, and many commercial and residential buildings in Chester, Nantwich and surrounding villages.

2 When ________ and Sale were moved from Cheshire to Trafford in 1974, they took some former Cheshire selective schools.

3 ________ are currently in National League One.

4 Much of the ________ in the north-west, including the county boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey, joined Merseyside.

5 What region does Cheshire belong to?

6 Which of the following is Southeast of Cheshire?

7 Which of the following is South of Cheshire?

8 Which of the following places is northeast of Cheshire?

9 All four ________ in Cheshire operate only comprehensive state school systems.

10 Who played centre in the Cheshire?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Carnegie Library in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building.
  • the Blue Bell in Chester, Cheshire, England, contains a chamber separated from the rest of the building which has been a ticket office for stage coach operators, a soda fountain bar and a barber's shop.
  • the Bear and Billet, now a public house in Chester, Cheshire, England, was originally the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury.
  • 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 (pictured) in Cheshire.
  • the Congregational Chapel of Nantwich, Cheshire, was founded in 1780 by a former captain of the dragoons preaching in a coachmaker's shop.
  • the Lyme Caxton Missal, on display in Lyme Park, Cheshire, is the only near-complete existing copy of the earliest known edition of a missal according to the Sarum Rite.
  • the Round Tower in Sandiway, Cheshire, was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey.
  • the Port of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester in 1894.
  • the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world.
  • the listed buildings of Marbury cum Quoisley in Cheshire, England, include an obelisk, a lychgate (pictured), a churchyard wall, and half a bridge.
  • the listed buildings in Poole, Cheshire, England, include a pinfold or cattle pound.
  • listed buildings in Peckforton, Cheshire, include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle (pictured).
  • in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hale, Cheshire, England, is the grave of John Middleton, who was reputed to have been over 9 feet (3 m) tall.
  • in Tatton Hall, Cheshire (pictured), are ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion.
  • in Bishop Lloyd's House, Chester, Cheshire, is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion.
  • the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester (pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family.
  • the 16th-century 140–142 Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the 11th-century Hospital of St Nicholas, which gives the street its name.
  • the Georgian façade of 116 Hospital Street (pictured) conceals a 15th-century structure, which might be the oldest house in Nantwich, Cheshire.
  • the excavation at Norton Priory, Cheshire, in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation.
  • the 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cheshire, England, include diverse wetlands, such as mosses, swamps, fens, meres, ponds and rare examples of inland salt marsh.
  • the Tegg's Nose Country Park in Cheshire has a collection of historical quarrying equipment (pictured) dating back to the 16th century.
  • the Tollemache Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the Hospital of St Lawrence, a medieval lazar house.
  • when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester, Cheshire, England, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street.
  • under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War.
  • the schools designed by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster in Eccleston and Waverton, Cheshire, are considered to be the best of his village schools.
  • the ruined Elizabethan mansion of Rocksavage (pictured) in Runcorn was once the second-largest house in Cheshire.
  • when Methodist George Whitefield preached in Nantwich, Cheshire, a mob tried to disperse his audience with a bull, but a Methodist Chapel (pictured) later became the town's largest chapel.
  • when Catalyst museum (pictured) in Widnes, Cheshire was opened in 1989, it was the world's first museum devoted to the chemicals industry.
  • while there are over 1,300 Iron Age hill forts in England, Kelsborrow Castle is one of only seven in Cheshire.
  • while Peover Hall in Cheshire, England (pictured), is a Grade II* listed building, its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture.
  • when the Water Tower in Chester, Cheshire, England, 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.
  • the ornate Chesters' Stores building of 1911 (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, was likened to the Lusitania liner because of its porthole-like windows.
  • the ornate Jacobean Revival-style 39 Welsh Row (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, was built as a humble savings bank.
  • the architect John Douglas designed a pair of houses at 31 and 33 Dee Banks, Chester, Cheshire, England, one for his own use and the other probably as an investment.
  • the architect John Douglas built Walmoor Hill (pictured) in Chester, Cheshire, as a house for himself, and since his death it has been used as a girls’ college and as the County Fire Headquarters.
  • the English architectural historian Edward Hubbard wrote the definitive biography of the Cheshire architect John Douglas, but died before it could be published.
  • the Wright's Almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, which date from 1638, were moved in the 1970s to stand by the Crewe Almshouses.
  • the bend in the street occupied by Regent House (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, follows the line of the outer wall of the town's Norman castle.
  • the building known as Three Old Arches in Chester, Cheshire, has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England.
  • the gates (pictured) of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London.
  • the depictions of fish on the medieval statue of St Christopher in Norton Priory, Cheshire, England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified.
  • the cellar of 23 Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England, contains the remains of columns from the principia of the Roman fortress that previously stood on the site.
  • in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge in Cheshire, and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it.
  • in 1613, Sir Roger Wilbraham, Elizabeth I's Solicitor-General for Ireland, founded the first almshouses (pictured) in his birthplace, Nantwich in Cheshire.
  • Crypt Chambers, a department store in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city.
  • Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300) (pictured), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century).
  • Bridgewater House, Runcorn, Cheshire, was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices.
  • Bonewaldesthorne's Tower (pictured) in Chester city walls, Cheshire, England, is documented to 1249 and was used in the 19th–20th centuries as a museum with a camera obscura and an observatory.
  • Delamere Forest (pictured) is the remnant of the Norman hunting forests of Mara and Mondrem, which once covered over 60 square miles (160 km2) of Cheshire, England.
  • Eddisbury hill fort, the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, was destroyed by the Romans to prevent it being used against them.
  • Hockenhull Platts, three bridges on a medieval road in Cheshire, England, were crossed in 1353 by the Black Prince, in 1698 by Celia Fiennes, and in 1780 by Thomas Pennant.
  • God's Providence House in Chester, Cheshire, probably gained its name because the owners survived the plague of 1647–48.
  • George Ormerod, an English antiquary and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816.
  • Raw Head (pictured), in Cheshire, England, was a Marilyn, but was demoted in 2009 after a re-survey.
  • All Saints' Church in Daresbury, Cheshire has stained glass panels (pictured) depicting characters from Alice in Wonderland.
  • John Wesley preached in the kitchen of Gates Farm in Cholmondeston, Cheshire, England.
  • John Douglas's design for a shop in Sankey Street, Warrington, Cheshire, was said to be influenced by Ruskin and G.G. Scott.
  • St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest, Cheshire still practises a rush-bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century.
  • David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party.
  • listed buildings in Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, include five canal bridges, two aqueducts and a former privy.
  • listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct (pictured), sundial, icehouse, clock tower, telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl.
  • 9 Mill Street (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, dates from 1736, and has been a house, a bank, a political club and a restaurant.
  • 46 High Street, an Elizabethan merchant's house in Nantwich, Cheshire, has a carved wooden caryatid (pictured).
  • Regency mansion Poole Hall in Cheshire, England, once housed an eclectic collection including teasmaids, mannequins, toy robots, a pinball machine and Keith Richards' Bentley.
  • Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire, UK.
  • John Douglas was an architect responsible for the 19th-century black-and-white revival in Chester, Cheshire.
  • a rare example of an intact malt kiln (pictured) survives in Sound, Cheshire, England.
  • a part of the Parthenon Frieze currently at the British Museum used to be kept at Marbury Hall in Cheshire, England.
  • Roger Wilbraham founded the Widows' Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, in memory of his wife, who died on the first anniversary of the death of their eldest son.
  • John Thomson served for 55 years as the schoolmaster of Nantwich Blue Cap School in Cheshire, England, and the school closed some six months after his retirement aged 86 or 87.
  • after Crewe Hall (pictured) in Cheshire was gutted by fire in 1866, E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the Jacobean original.
  • although Peckforton Castle in Cheshire (pictured) was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a Norman castle in design and position.
  • during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison.
  • during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor.
  • as a consequence of Earl Rivers' reversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697, the name of the Lyon's Paw Hotel in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, was changed to the Bear's Paw.
  • British television programmes including Cluedo and The Forsyte Saga were partly filmed at Arley Hall in Cheshire.
  • Bridgemere Garden World in Bridgemere, Cheshire, now one of the largest garden centres in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961.
  • St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway, Cheshire, was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway.
  • Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant.
  • Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle.
  • St John the Evangelist's Church, Weston, Runcorn, Cheshire is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it.
  • St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II.
  • Rev William Cotton, vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire, introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s.
  • Stanley Palace in Chester, Cheshire, built as a town house in 1597, has since been apartments, a boys' school, and a museum, and is now used as an office and meeting rooms.
  • St Oswald's Chambers in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built on land purchased by the architect John Douglas to enhance the view towards Chester Cathedral.
  • Cheshire landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton arranged for his house, Arley Hall, to be designed in Tudor style while the chapel was designed in Gothic style.
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