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| | The Historic Town of Nantwich |
 | | Nantwich dates from pre-1086, at which time it was named simply "wich" in the Domesday Book, presumably due to its salt houses, heavily relied upon by the Roman garrisons at nearby Chester and Stoke-on-Trent as a preservative, condiment and trading commodity. |
 | | Georgian prosperity is evident in the local architecture, particularly along Welsh Row, and in the vast array of tradesmen who reportedly lived in and around Nantwich during the eighteenth century, including cobbler, skinner, tanner, clogger, glover, staymaker, coachmaker, cheesemaker, whitesmith and flsmith. |
 | | By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the town was in decline, its streets dirty and unpaved and its timber-framed houses in bad repair. |
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