Short answers, pulled from the story.
North West England consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. It is one of nine official regions of England and one of three regions that make up Northern England, alongside North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber.
North West England had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. That made it the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, behind only Greater London and the South East.
Scafell Pike, in Cumbria, is the highest point in North West England, rising to 3,209 feet. It is also the highest peak in all of England.
Ernest Marsden of Blackburn and Hans Geiger invented the Geiger counter in 1909 while carrying out the Geiger-Marsden experiment at the University of Manchester. Their work demonstrated the existence of the atomic nucleus.
One in five people in North West England is Catholic, a legacy of large-scale Irish emigration to the region during the nineteenth century. A long history of English recusants based in Lancashire also contributed to this Catholic population.
IKEA opened its first UK store in Warrington, North West England, on the 1st of October 1987. At the time, the UK was only the 20th country in which the company had established a store.