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A History of the County of Lancaster
… 3 The road from Chipping now goes eastward to Leagram Mill, situated on the brook dividing the two parts of the … The Hodder forms the eastern boundary. Bowland paid 26 s. 10 d. to the county lay when the hundred paid 100. 4 … hearths liable to the tax in 1666; Richard Shireburne's was the only large house, having fourteen hearths. Bowland …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… five hearths. 2 The industries include large ironworks, a mill, and chemical works; the coal-pits have long been … the demesne of the manor of Manchester, and were worth 40 s. yearly. 7 A century earlier the Norreys family claimed two … in Chorley. 15 The manor was still in Bridget Charnock's possession in 1654, 16 and descended to the Brookes of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… north and north-east through the township. John Bradshaw's house, the Hall, had thirteen hearths liable to the tax in … of the lords of Manchester by the fourth part of a knight's fee, and payments of 9 d. each for sake fee and castle … of Bradshaw in Harwood, with sixteen messuages, a fulling mill, a watermill, &c., together with messuages and lands in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 24 In connexion with the Church of England, St. James's was built in 1855; the patronage is exercised alternately … of the rest after his own death; Lord Edmund Talbot's MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com. Various Coll. ii, 290). See the … the right of Robert de Hampton and Margery his wife to a mill and eight oxgangs of land (less 12 acres) in Breightmet, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… goes east to Leyland. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's Liverpool and Preston railway crosses the north-east corner … del Pool were stated to hold the twelfth part of a knight's fee in Bretherton of the heir of the Earl of Lincoln, as … Conc. i, 184. Two years later he settled two messuages, a mill, a ploughland, &c., in Bretherton upon John, William and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was a skirmish at Haggate in 1644 between Prince Rupert's forces and the Parliamentarians. 3 The township, now called … John de Lacy, the value of Briercliffe was returned as 40 s. 8 d. a year. 6 Sixteen years later some further … much light on the matter, for though the Towneleys had the mill with its rights, 54 the Parkers claimed the manor. On …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to Cottam and Lea. The London and NorthWestern Company's railway runs north through the western end of the township. … assessed as one plough-land, formed part of Earl Tostig's lordship of Preston or Amounderness. 4 After the Conquest … 50 acres of arable land worth 8 d. a year each, a horse-mill (fallen down) worth only 10 s. a year, a windmill …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… by Katherine daughter of Adam Banastre by a rent of 27 s., 20 and descended to the Harringtons of Farleton 21 and … being the fortieth (later, the sixteenth) part of a knight's fee and a rent of 6 s. 8 d. It passed by marriage to the … the first horse used in Manchester in a gin to turn the mill which perched or straightened the nap on the back of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… fell towards Cartme], with a branch sloping down to Kent's Bank on the south-west. Up the Broughton Vale a road goes … of the north-east counties. There is a Working-men's Institute. The well-wooded Holme Island to the east was … 1320 the Prior of Cartmel was claiming suit at Broughton Mill against John son of John de Hampsfield, Norman de …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1848. The Square, Broughton-in-Furness Fr. West's description of the town in 1774 is of interest: This place … together with the Kirkhouse, now known as the "Old King's Head." These were all situate in the Rectory lands, a … to one Ailward de Broughton to hold of him by knight's service. 9 From his surname it may be assumed that Ailward …