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A History of the County of Lancaster
… goes north through it, passing Old Holme and ascending the hill from which the name is derived; leaving the manor site … mile to the east of Gawthorpe in a meadow on the brow of a hill, from which a good view is obtained of the whole of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Drainage Act of 1779; they include Shire Lane Moss, Orrell Hill, Scaffold Lane, Hallops Hey, and Logers Field. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is called 'of Altcar'a branch of the family resided at Hill House in Altcar about this timeand William Fazakerley as …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a mile from the shore, being hidden from it by a slight hill, at the western foot of which is Sandside. Further south … (next to the lord's house), Skawdergamble, Bracken hill, Kipleston (a fair mere), Swainstyhalgh, Midmoss to …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… sandhills, and the village 2 lay at the foot of the hill, on the north-west side of the road from Liverpool to … The London and North-Western Railway's branch from Edge Hill to the docks has a station at Canada Dock, and the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… along it the town is built, as it descends from the Mill Hill on the east, rises, falls and rises again to the Willows …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and west, filling the gentle hollow between the Castle Hill on the west and the higher land on the east, which was … having sprung from a dispensary established on Castle Hill in 1781, to which a house of recovery for fever … Ashton. From the Square a street leads eastward up the hill to Williamson Park, passing the grammar school (rebuilt …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and of Blythe Hall,' sold the Lathom estate to William Hill of Burscough in 1698. William Hill, junior, in 1761 conveyed the estate to William Shaw and … Bootle; the others included T. Stanley of Cross Hall, W. Hill of Blythe Hall, Mr. Ashton's heirs and W. Johnson's …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… by Samuel Crook in 1770. 78 The Balshaw school at Golden Hill was founded in 1782. There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Golden Hill, near the village, built in 1814, and another at Midge … 42, m. 57; 44, m. 76. The Werdens formerly owned Golden Hill. Some of them were recusants in 1628; Misc. (Rec. Soc. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… from the rising ground on which they are built, as Mill Hill in the east and School Hill near the centre. In this township are a small part of …