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Cheshire Cat (Thursday Next series), a fictional cat in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels; Cheshire Cat (comics), a fictional character; Cheshire Cat idiom or opaque pointer, a computer programming technique; Cheshire Cat Eating House, a cafe in the Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire, England; Quantum Cheshire cat, a phenomenon in ...
St Mary's Church, Nantwich is the Anglican parish church of the town of Nantwich.The church is built in red sandstone on a cruciform plan with an octagonal tower. Building commenced in 1340 but was interrupted in 1349–1369, probably by an outbreak of the Black Death, which has resulted in the church's style being a mix of Decorated and Perpendicular.
Nantwich railway station serves the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, England. It is on the Crewe to Shrewsbury line 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7.2 km) south west of Crewe. Opened in 1858, it was the junction for the Great Western Railway route to Wellington via Market Drayton until 1963.
Nantwich (/ ˈ n æ n t w ɪ tʃ / NAN-twitch) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture.
Cheshire cat. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing. The phrase appears again in print in John Wolcot's pseudonymous Peter Pindar's Pair of Lyric Epistles (1792): "Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin." The phrase also appears in print in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes ...
Bridgemere is a village (at ) and former civil parish, now in the parish of Doddington and District, [1] in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is around 7 miles (11 km) south east of Nantwich and 12 miles (19 km) west of Stoke-on-Trent .
The Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway was a standard gauge railway line which began as a single line branch in the early 1860s and rapidly became part of the Great Western Railway's (GWR) double track Wellington to Nantwich Railway, which had through trains to Crewe. It carried through freight and local passenger traffic until its closure in ...
During the party, the Cheshire Cat reappears and upsets the Dormouse. The frightened Dormouse runs all over, and in an attempt to crush the Dormouse, the King of Hearts accidentally hits the Queen on the head with the gavel, which is hastily passed into the March Hare's hands, then the Hatter's, and finally Alice's. The Queen, of course ...