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A History of the County of Stafford
… Townships Freeford FREEFORD Freeford, south-east of Lichfield, was formerly a township of 378 a. in St. … of Freeford Manor. 3 The soil is loam. 4 The ground lies at 226 ft. (69 m.) on the boundary with Lichfield by Freeford … the mid 18th century, and by the late 18th century another large room had been added to it on the east. A two-storey …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… parish, 1 extends for about 2 miles along the western bank of the Wyre, but its breadth seldom exceeds half a mile, and … here crosses the Wyre by a two-arched stone bridge. 3 At the south end of the town is the modern church, and at the … to the lessee, the Hon. Edward Walpole, under a special Act of Parliament. 12 Through his daughter the lordship has …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Garston GARSTON Gerstan, usual to the end of xv cent.; Gerston, 1201; Garston, common from 1500; … streets of houses set in flowery gardens, many running at right angles to the principal main roads, and leading down … of Liverpool 48 in procuring (at the latter's expense) an Act of Parliament 49 for destroying the entail and enabling …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… stretches northwards for about 2 miles from the boundary of Newton to the Glazebrook. Millingford Brook, coming from … the north passes through the township, and has a station at Golborne; at the southern end is a junction with the … of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 51, m. 174. In 1738 a private Act was passed 'for vesting the manor of Golborne, part of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 13234; Goldea, 1422; Goldeshagh, 1459. The chapelry of Newchurch in Pendle includes a large part of the old … Moor on the west to Newchurch on the east and rising at the former point to more than 1,500 ft. above sea level. … Notes to Whitaker's Whalley (ed. 4, 1876), i, 299. Act Bk. of Whalley (Chet. Soc.), 158; failing heirs, certain …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1251. Goosnargh gives its name to a detached chapelry of Kirkham, comprising Goosnargh, Newsham and Whittingham. … village. The Preston and Lancaster Canal crosses Newsham at Hollowforth. Newsham was separated from Goosnargh in 1894 … was appointed one of the judges of Charles I, but did not act. In 1649 he was made a baron of the Exchequer, but did …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… c. 1450. 1 This township 2 lies to the north and south of Gore or Rush Brook, which flows west to the Mersey. The … centre of the township. On the south-eastern boundary is a large reservoir of the Manchester Waterworks. The government … township was formerly vested in the constables appointed at a town's meeting and confirmed by the Manchester Court …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1 which contains the parish church and about half the town of Bolton-le-Moors, has an area of 825 acres, 2 and is … in 1829. The Bolton and Manchester Canal, for which an Act was obtained in 1791, helped in the development, as did … 39 and descended in the line of Ferrers of Groby till the attainder of Thomas, Marquess of Dorset, in 1483. 40 It was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… both used in the sixteenth century. The ancient township of Great Crosby, which includes Waterloo, lies on the … The crops grown are principally oats, rye, and potatoes. At Hall Road there are golf-links on both sides of the … estrays, and wreck of the sea, and chapel reeves. The Act was passed 28 Feb. 1812; and the award made four years …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… from Billington Moor by Dean Brook, and has elevations of 772 ft. above the ordnance datum on Harwood Ridge and 650 … crosses the extreme western angle of the township at Dean Head. The Great Harwood loop of the Lancashire and … ancient parish of Blackburn in 1837. The Local Government Act, 1858, was adopted in 1863, 3 but under the Local …