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A History of the County of Lancaster
… ridge which is severed from Billington Moor by Dean Brook, and has elevations of 772 ft. above the ordnance datum on Harwood Ridge and 650 ft. on Bowley Hill. From the latter a wide landscape … works of the Great Harwood and Clayton-le-Moors Joint Sewerage Board are at Martholme. Cliffe is a suburb of Great …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… from the triangular ground between the Irwell on the east and Musbury on the west; going north the surface rises, and the town of Haslingden lies in a valley some 700 ft. … of Bury in 1872 86; there are reservoirs by Musbury. The sewerage of the whole district is regulated by the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… area of flat, fen country laid out in pastures and cultivated fields, where corn, root crops, and clover-hay … separated by deep ditches, which serve for division and drainage. Near the sea coast, and near the mouth of the Alt, … this point. A number of minor names are given in the Alt Drainage Act of 1779; they include Shire Lane Moss, Orrell …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Forest, lying mainly in the lower land near the Irwell and along the stream which flows south through Higher Booths; … portions to the north-west on the border of Accrington and other three to the east in the middle of Newchurch. The … a private company and water by the Bury Corporation; the sewerage of the district is controlled by the Haslingden, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1351; Maghull, Maghell, 1353. These last two forms and Maghale most general. In the xv cent. the name was … supplied with trees, generally grouped about the villages and farmsteads. The land is divided into arable and pasture, … 1748.' Another in the churchyard is dated 1781. 3 The Alt Drainage Act (1779) has the following field names: Chew, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… passed on the death of Thomas Grelley to his sister Joan and her husband John La Warre. 4 For over a century it … by her husband Sir Thomas, third Lord West. 5 The manor and its dependencies were in 1579 sold for 3,000 by the heir … before the charter, have made continual progress. The sewerage of the district has been attended to, and for sewage …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a considerable part of the old forest of Rossendale, and still remains for the most part desolate hill country, in … the cloughs extending north from this valley in the centre and east end of the township. The old divisions are … 31; the Haslingden, Rawtenstall and Bacup Outfall Sewerage Board regulates the disposal of the sewage. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the waters of the Ribble estuary by high embankments, and the force of the tide is broken by piles driven at … shelter of these banks the marshy land has been reclaimed and turned to good account; the soil, a rich peat mixed with … by ditches which serve the double purpose of division and drainage, whilst low hawthorn hedges form the divisions in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Old and New Accrington OLD ACCRINGTON, NEW ACCRINGTON Acrinton, … The town lies at the foot of Hameldon Hill to the east and the Haslingden hills to the south, and from these hills … lighting works were opened in 1900. There is also a sewerage board for Accrington and Church. 49 The town hall, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… It is situated in open country, flat as to surface, and like most of the wind-swept districts of the northern … is surrounded by ample grounds fairly thickly wooded, and by comparison the rest of the country looks bare and … in the agriculture of the neighbourhood and begun the drainage of Martin mere. 81 He added to the family estates …