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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Over Darwen, Feniscowles, Great Harwood, Mellor, Mellor-Brook, Salesbury, Samlesbury, Tockholes, Walton, and Witton. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to the east and west respectively, being parted by Dean Brook, while Chaigley or Chaigeley occupies the north-east … St. Michael's Well, near a certain stream called the Stone Brook. The place may be Aughton near Ormskirk. V.C.H. Lancs, … a strip of land round Ellis's houses, and by it to Stony Brook, running west; then south and east to the …
Old and New London
… a hundredweight, in separate pounds, of heat, cold, wet, dry, murder, fire, dreadful robbery, atrocious outrage, …
Old and New London
… now became the order of the day; and here Miss Sally Brook made her first appearance in London. All sorts of …
Survey of London
… and 400 tons was being set up. Then a 'large well-built dry dock, nearly three hundred feet long and about twenty in … one an East Indiaman, were being repaired. This was the dry dock built by the East India Company in 1614, lengthened in 1615, to form a double dry dock, and again in 1624. A narrow strip of land separated …
Survey of London
… and June 1614 William Burrell supervised the digging of a dry dock at Blackwall. Construction proved difficult, and … at Blackwall as well. 8 In 1615 Burrell lengthened the dry dock so that it could take three ships, and the entrance … a 'little new dock' was built to the east of the first dry dock (known by that date as the 'great' or 'double' …