Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/15
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- ...that listed buildings in Peckforton include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle (pictured)?
- ...that the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer?
- ...that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes?
