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Chanters Colliery

Former colliery in Hindsford, Atherton where coal was mined from 1854 until 1966.

Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin

Usually known as Wakefield Chantry Chapel, part of the medieval bridge over the River Calder in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Chapel of ease

Church subordinate to a parish church serving an area known as a chapelry, for the convenience of those parishioners who would find it difficult to attend services at the parish church.

Chapelry

Redirected to chapel of ease.

Chapman

An itinerant peddler or hawker.

Charles White, physician

English physician and a co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, along with local industrialist Joseph Bancroft.

Charlotte de Berry

Probably fictional 17th-century female pirate.

Chat Moss

Large area of peat bog that makes up 30 per cent of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England.

Checker shadow illusion

Perceptual illusion demonstrating that the visual system uses context as well as physical luminance to determine the lightness or darkness of an object.

Cheetham Close

Cheetham Close, a hill in the West Pennine Moors above Turton in Lancashire, is the site of an ancient stone circle.