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Here is an article about the histories of some Wetherspoons pubs in Cheshire. One of them, the Friar Penketh in Barbauld Street, Warrington, is said to stand on the site of a 13^th-century Augustinian friary, and nearby Friars Gate and St Augustine’s Lane are reminders of the long-gone religious house.

Why am I posting about it? Well, apart from its medieval connection, I found it interesting that the pub also has a Shakespearean link to Richard III. Yes, the monster, not the real Richard! It seems “the name [of the pub] originates from Shakespeare’s King Richard III which mentions a scholar called Friar Penketh”.