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A History of the County of Lancaster
… northern edge of Westhoughton and flowing south through Leigh to Glazebrook. The road from Manchester to Chorley goes … Wingates, east to Chequerbent, and south to Daisy Hill and Leigh; there are numerous cross roads. The Lancashire and … Worthington, having six hearths; Ralph Brown and William Leigh had five each. 5 A local board was formed in 1872. 6 In …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… course through Lowton and Pennington. The Wigan and Leigh branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs through … high road from Hindley to Atherton with a branch road to Leigh also passes through it. There is a station at Westleigh, originally named Leigh Station, on the Bolton and Kenyon section of the London …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Alice his wife, Sir Thonrn Leigh and Thomas Spencer were deforciants; Pal. of Lanc. Feet …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Jane (wife of Richard Ashton), Ellen (wife of John Leigh) and Janet (wife of William Johnson); and the eldest …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… who resides upon it; the Lower is the property of John Leigh, esq., and Carter's House that of Mr. Taylor, both of … son Richard for his father's land; a fine of Philip de la Leigh, who had married the daughter of another serf, Roger de … in 1661'; Fragments, 179. Families named Donington and Leigh have been mentioned in the fourteenth century. In 1323, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the Lancaster Canal followed in 1794, and a branch to Leigh connected the town with the Worsley Canal. The railway … Oliver Markland, William Foster, Hamlet Green, Charles Leigh, William Burgess, Edward Challenor, John Tarleton, … He was a defendant in 1292 in two Wigan cases, Henry de Leigh being one plaintiff, and Hugh son of William the reeve …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 200; with this money certain tithes in the parish of Leigh were purchased. In 1736 a further augmentation was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in Worsley, Hulton, Salford, Manchester, Tatton, Ollerton, Leigh, Northwich, Knutsford, and Rostherne, then in the hands … an elder son had left two daughtersMary wife of Sir Thomas Leigh, and Vera wife of William Booth; Chan. Inq. p.m. II, v, … Hempstead. His wife was Honora, sister of Thomas Lord Leigh of Stoneley; their only son died young, while of four …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1613 ( Visit. [Chet. Soc.], 38), and Mary wife of William Leigh, rector of Standish; Dugdale's Visit. 183. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… books at 10. 0. 5., and in the gift of Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for 180, and the …