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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Walden, now called Barn Hall, N.E. of the church, where Morant records that "Roman pavements were dug up near it some … Arch. Soc. Trans., O.S., I, 199.) (See also Tollesbury (1) and Sectional Preface, p. xxvii.) Ecclesiastical (2). Parish … pudding-stone is visible the dressings are of limestone and the roofs are tiled. The proportions of the Nave and the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Clitheroe CLITHEROE Cliderhou, 1175, and common to 1600, with variants Gliderhou, Clederowe, &c.; … to the east. Between the lower slopes of this mountain and the town flows a brook south-west to join the Ribble. The … sons. For pedigree and epitaph see Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 251. A famous master of the grammar school 17751813; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Hapton HAPTON Upton, 1241; Hapton, 1280 and usually. This large township, with an area of 4,007 … or Hambledon, the summits of which attain 1,305 ft. and 1,343 ft. above the sea. Between these summits rises a … increase of service recorded. From Whitaker's Craven (ed. Morant, 562, 576) it appears that William de Arches, living …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 400 ft. high, descending somewhat sharply to the south and west, while the remainder is the level valley of the … detached portion on the hill-side to the south of Farleton and two small fragments within Farleton itself. The detached … was not reversed till 1826. Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 232. He had been curate of Hornby. He took the name …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Little and Darcy Lever LITTLE LEVER Lefre, 1212; Lethre, 1221; … on three of its five sides by the Irwell, the Croal, and Blackshaw Brook, but a small portion projects north of … was attainted and beheaded in 1538; Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 71. It is about his time that the name Darcy Lever …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… on low moorland, sloping eastward down to Norden Brook and on a ridge lying between that brook and the River Hyndburn on the east. The highest ground is on … Agnes married Sir Thomas Talbot; Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 32. Whitaker, Whalley, ii, 405 n. quoting Rymer, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… sea level. The northern boundary is formed by Ings Beck and the western by a small brook dividing it from Downham. … crossed by a road leading east from Downham by Lower Gate and Ings End into Yorkshire; at the former point this is … See pedigree of Lister of Gisburn in Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 54. Edward Braddyll in 1575 bought four messuages, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1285. This township lies between the Wenning on the south and the wooded Greeta on the north; the undulating surface … Wennington lies on the river from which it takes its name, and over which there is a bridge adjacent, while Old … death in 1852, aged seventy-five; Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 233. Foster, Yorks. Peds. (N. and E. Riding), under …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of Whalley lies along the Calder as it flows north and west on its way to the Ribble. The parish church, … near the north bank of the river in a central position, and has the ruins of the once great abbey to its west. … war. War in Lancs. (Chet. Soc.), 15. Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 123, quoting Towneley MSS. Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Tudor and Stuart Colchester Borough government BOROUGH GOVERNMENT … confirmed by inspeximus in 1488, 1547, 1553, 1559, 1605, and 1629. To earlier privileges was added exemption from … p. 275. E.R.O., D/B 5 Sr103, rot. 36; D/B 5 Gb7, pp. 20-4. Morant, Colch. 158; E.R.O., D/B 5 Gb2, f. 45v.; D/B 5 Cr118, …