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| Cheshire |
Cheshire lies in north-western England and borders Wales to the west.
In
1974 the southern border of neighbouring Lancashire was incorporated
into the county.
Towns include the county seat of Chester where the most complete city
walls dating from Roman Britain have survived. |
| Anglo-Saxons and Danes |
Anglo-Saxon Kings |
The
son of Alfred the Great and King of Wessex Edward
the Elder died in 924 at Farndon. He
was buried at Winchester
in Hampshire.
Monarchs
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Famous People |
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The
mountaineer George Mallory was born
in Mobberley in 1886. In 1924 he made his third expedition to Mount
Everest and disappeared with his climbing partner Sandy Irvine. His
body was not located, creating a mystery about what had happened to
the two climbers and whether they had actually reached the summit. In 1999 Mallory's body was found and various clues kept the mystery unsolved: was he returning from the summit or on his way there? In 2024 remains belonging to Sandy Irvine were also discovered but whether the two were the first to stand on the summit nearly thirty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 will probably never be known. 
George
Mallory
George
Mallory |
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Inventors and Scientists |
The
mathematician, computer pioneer and Engima code-breaker Alan
Turing committed suicide in Wilmslow in 1954.
Alan
Turing
Alan
Turing
Alan
Turing website |
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In
1951 the
Peak
District became Britain's first National Park.
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World Heritage Sites |
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Since 1945 Jodrell
Bank has been the location of pioneering scientific research and
is seen as the birthplace of radio astronomy. In 1957 the Lovell Telescope
(then the largest and now the third largest in the world) began operating
on the site. In 2019 Jodrell Bank was designated a World
Heritage Site by the UNESCO. |
| Writers and Poets |
The
author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis
Carroll was born as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832 at the parsonage
at Daresbury, his home until he was 11 years of age.
Lewis
Carroll
Poetry Archive
Lewis Carroll Society The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. Through the Looking Glass (1872)
Elizabeth
Gaskell was buried in 1865 at Knutsford where she had lived as
a child and which she depicted in her novel Cranford.
Elizabeth
Gaskell
Gaskell SocietyI'll not listen to reason... Reason always means what someone else has got to say. Cranford (1853)
Christopher
Isherwood
was born as Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood at Wybersley Hall
in the village of High Lane near Disley in 1904. He wrote of his experiences
in Berlin during the 1930s and in 1939 emigrated with W.H. Auden to
America where they both became U.S. citizens in 1946.
Christopher
Isherwood
With
W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender
Christopher
Isherwood FoundationI am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
The
author of Under the Volcano Malcolm
Lowry was born as Clarence Malcolm Lowry in Birkenhead in 1909.
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