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A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1904. The township contains a free library. 5 Pepper Hill Farm, the scene of the opening chapters of Mrs. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… which goes north-east through the township, passing Mill Hill on the left or west, the church on the right and the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… quarry. The Liverpool Convalescent Institution on the hill side was built from the surplus of the Liverpool fund …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the township, called Musbury Heights, 1,268 ft., and Burnt Hill and Tor Hill. The valley on the northernmost slope is called Ogden, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the north-west boundary is Worless Moss. To the north the hill called Kellet Seeds divides Nether from Over Kellet. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… at Scorton. The township has a parish council. At Cross Hill, Scorton, is the base of an ancient cross. 2 Manor In … part of the 18th century. 74 A school existed at Cross Hill as early as 1717, and another was built at Scorton in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Rossendale, and still remains for the most part desolate hill country, in which heights of 1,340 ft. above sea level … by the inhabitants in or before 1511 on the slope of a hill called Seatnaze, 38 and gave the name of Newchurch to … their 'conventicle,' with its burialground (at Chapel Hill), being reported to the Bishop of Chester in 16701. 79 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… into five wards. There is an ancient barrow called Castle Hill about half a mile north of the village. There is another …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… sold the fourth part of the manor of Hall Moretonunder-the-Hill for 20 marks to Henry Smith; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 227, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… numbered 43,122. The town lies at the foot of Hameldon Hill to the east and the Haslingden hills to the south, and … North, South, West, Higher Antley, Peel Park and Spring Hill. A Commission of the Peace was granted in 1880, and a … have opened baths, two public parksMilnshaw (1880) and Oak Hill (1893)and a cemetery (1864); this last is in Huncoat. It …