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About Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shropshire to the south; to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham, and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary. The largest settlement is Warrington.

On the show โ€” 18 mentions total

I found out about a sex shop in Cheshire called the Private Shop. In 2014, they were applying to be allowed to trade on a Sunday. They were not allowed to do so, but they were granted permission to leave the door slightly open.

from No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop, 2020-07-03 at 00:06:59 ยท read transcript

Other times Cheshire came up

  1. Basically, they're microscopic single cell algae and she can use these, the presence of these, to come up with a profile of the soil in an area which can then solve a crime. There was, there's a castle in Cheshire called Beast and Castle, right, which is a protected area. There were some metal detectorists, night hawks, dirt sharks, who'd gone and nicked an arrow, like bronze age artefacts from the soil around there.

    No Such Thing As A Dirty Bar Of Soap, 2024-01-04 ยท listen

  2. I like... Do you guys know about, uh, Knutsford in Cheshire, with the campaign that it ran at the end of last year, I think, to widen its pavements? Because, um, so it's, it's finally been agreed that Knutsford in Cheshire is going to widen its pavements so that two people can walk along it, and the reason two people can't walk along it is because there was this spinster called Lady James Stanley, um, who in the 19th century, she lived in Knutsford, and she dictated that couples shouldn't be allowed to walk along the pavements hand-in-hand, and so she funded the building of all the pavements in Knutsford and made sure that only one person at a time could walk along it.

    51: No Such Thing As Dodecahedral Shredded Wheat, 2015-03-07 ยท listen

  3. In the regional seats of government nuclear bunkers, of which there were 12 in the Cold War period in Britain, they were for politicians for offices of state and things like that. Each of them would have a BBC studio inside. You can visit the one, there's one at Kelverton Hatch in Essex, which is open to the public, one at Hack Green in Cheshire, which is, and you can see the BBC studio in there. They have, in Kelverton Hatch, I think they have playing the actual BBC broadcast that would have been playing.

    451: No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 ยท listen

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