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Chorlton Poor Law Union

Founded in January 1837 in response to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, also known as the New Poor Law. It was overseen by an elected board of 19 guardians representing the 12 parishes in the area it served: Ardwick, Burnage, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Chorlton with Hardy, Didsbury, Gorton, Hulme, Levenshulme, Mosside, Rusholme, Stretford, and Withington, all in south Manchester, England.

Chowbent Chapel

Active Unitarian place of worship in Atherton, Greater Manchester that was built in 1721.

Christopher Saxton

English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.

Church grim

Spirit that protects graveyards from witches and the Devil, usually appearing as a black dog.

Church of St Edward the Confessor, Romford

Place of worship in Romford, in the London Borough of Havering, an Anglican church in the Diocese of Chelmsford.

Church of St Laurence, Priddy

Active Anglican church in Priddy, Somerset, built during the 13th century.

Churche’s Mansion

Timber-framed, black-and-white Elizabethan mansion house in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, one of the very few buildings to have survived the Great Fire of Nantwich in 1583.

Chysauster

Chysauster is an ancient settlement and scheduled monument on the upper slopes of the Carnaquidden Downs in the Penwith District of southwest Cornwall in England.

Circe

Circe is the title given to two oil on canvas sketches by the English artist John William Waterhouse; he worked on both during the final years of his career from 1911 to 1914.

Circe Invidiosa

Painting by John William Waterhouse completed in 1892, his second depiction of the Greek mythological character Circe.