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A History of the County of Lancaster
… time by families named Anderton and Cunliffe, a rent of 9 s. 6 d. being payable to Manchester, with puture of the … various messuages, lands, a watermill and half another mill in Anderton and Healey, the Anderton estate being held … Lambert son of Thomas de Burnhull, who had married Robert's daughter Avice; Add. MS. 32106, no. 170. In another Lambert …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Lead mines were formerly worked here. 2 There is a cotton-mill at White Coppice. The moors abound with grouse. Manor In … twenty-five hearths were liable to the tax. Robert Shaw's house, with five, was the largest. 3 The earliest record of … Robert son of Henry de Lathom to hold by annual rent of 3 s. 5 The Lathom family and their successors, the Stanleys, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the township. The London and North Western Company's line from London Road Station to Stockport crosses the … its line runs east and has a second station called Ashbury's, just on the township boundary. The Midland Company has … except that he had to carry millstones, not to Gorton Mill, but to that at Manchester, at a gross payment of 4 d. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… assessed as six plough-lands, was part of Earl Tostig's fee of Whittington. 3 It was afterwards a member of the … At his death in 1285 Sir Geoffrey had free services of 9 5 s. from the vill, 5 and his widow Margaret de Nevill in 1 319 … and Elizabeth his wife in 1597 sold two messuages, a water mill and various lands in Arkholme, Storrs, Newton and Docker …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the three and a half held by him in thegnage for 35 s., and providing a judge and a half at the court of Newton. … other manors. 13 In 1254 he obtained the right to erect a mill in Ashton. 14 The son of Peter and Avice was Peter, who … Langton, baron of Newton, in socage by the service of 20 s. a year, besides many other manors and lands in Lancashire. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… for its fine sylvan scenery. 3 At Stodday there is a snuff mill, long disused. James I stayed at Ashton Hall on 1112 … held by the Lancaster family, being held by knight's service. In the time of Henry II William de Lancaster I … in 1411 held by Philippa widow of Robert de Vere by knight's service and 10 d. rent, 12 and in 1509 by Margaret Countess …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… are worked. There were only thirty-two hearthsRichard Holt's dwelling having twelve of themliable to the hearth tax in … 4 oxgangs in Ashworth, which he had demanded in the king's court. 7 Richard son of Adam de Birtle, who held an acre in … held the capital messuage with eighteen others, a water-mill, four fulling-mills, 300 acres arable land, &c., in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… are several large collieries, also malt kilns and a cotton mill. Wheat, oats, and potatoes are grown. A local board was … were found to hold Aspull, as the eighth part of a knight's fee, directly of Thomas Grelley. 6 From this time the … a footpath from Gidlow Hall westward across Roger Hindley's meadows called Longer Hey to the highway between Aspull …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the northern part of the township, and an important cotton mill at Astley Green. In 1901 the population of the township, … then held by William Fitz Nigel, the earl of Chester's constable. The first recorded tenant of the manorwho also … of Chester, by the service of the tenth part of one knight's fee. 5 He gave to Cockersand Abbey lands here called …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1259, and common since. This name, derived from A.S. Adre, a watercourse, and tun, a farmstead or village, … Howe Bridge, 3 and in 1884 the district parish of St. Anne's, Hindsford. In 1894 a portion of the township was … competition has now entirely disappeared. The first cotton-mill was erected in 1776. The manufacture of bolts and nails …