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Sweetbriar Hall, Nantwich

...that scientist Joseph Priestley is believed to have lived at Sweetbriar Hall (pictured), in Nantwich, and another scientist, Sir William Bowman, was born there?
...that although Arley Hall was in Jacobean style, its owner decided that its chapel should be in Gothic style?
...that her experiences with girls on the street led philosopher Bertrand Russell's "stern and gloomy" Aunt Maude to write Clubs for Working Girls?
...that the listed buildings in Lymm include three aqueducts, a cross, a water tower, a well, an icehouse, a pigeon house, a mounting block, a milepost and the stocks?

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