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'''Oldest named county cheese''': Cheshire Cheese along with Shropshire Cheese are the earliest recorded named county cheeses.
'''Cheshire Cheese''': There are conflicting accounts of Cheshire Cheese being mentioned in the Domesday, and so the first county chesse, or along with Shropshire Cheese, recorded much later in 1580.
http://www.reecescheese.co.uk/about-us/history-of-cheshire-cheese
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http://www.theguardian.com/global/the-northerner/2011/apr/27/cheshire-cheese-revival-sales-plummet
http://www.cheese.com/cheshire/
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'''UK First Neighbourhood Watch'''
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Inventions & Innovations

Polythene invented in 1933, at ICI in Northwich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene#History http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/polythenes-story-the-accidental-birth-of-plastic-bags-800602.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9042000/9042044.stm

Pulsation Engine a precursor to Hydraulic Ram, invented by John Whitehurst in Oulton Park https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsation_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram


Firsts

First observation of extragalactic radio source The Andromeda nebula (M31) made at Jodrell Bank in 1950 http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/history/early.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v166/n4230/abs/166901a0.html

Claim of "Birth of England" AD937 A suggested site of Battle of Brunanburh was Bromborough in AD937 between King Athelstan and a Scots-Viking-Irish coalition. There are even suggestions that is was the fairway of 11th hole at Brackenwood golf course. The outcome has been described as "Birth of England" with the continued separation of the British Isles into distinct nations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4112301.stm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh#Battle_site

Cheshire Cheese: There are conflicting accounts of Cheshire Cheese being mentioned in the Domesday, and so the first county chesse, or along with Shropshire Cheese, recorded much later in 1580. http://www.reecescheese.co.uk/about-us/history-of-cheshire-cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_cheese http://www.theguardian.com/global/the-northerner/2011/apr/27/cheshire-cheese-revival-sales-plummet http://www.cheese.com/cheshire/ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yHDNDoGjJgcC&lpg=PA118&ots=czzwhzppDp&dq=cheshire%20cheese%20domesday%20book&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=cheshire%20cheese%20domesday%20book&f=false

UK First Neighbourhood Watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood_Watch_%28United_Kingdom%29

First publicly funded civic park in Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park

First known stagecoach runs between Birmingham and Holywell via Nantwich and Chester, 1637 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Cheshire_history#17th_century

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