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A History of the County of Lancaster
… town was built, and is about 110 ft. above the River Lune, which curves past it at a distance of about 250 yds. to … the whole of Morecambe Bay, with the estuary of the Lune in the foreground, the fells of Lancashire and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Over Wyresdale on the south and parting the valleys of the Lune and Wyre contain the highest land in the main portion of … or lowland portion of the parish is bisected by the Lune; the north-western half, known in part as the Little … determined by the defensible bluff rising in a bend of the Lune at a point where the river was still tidal and navigable …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… compact lordship occupying the tongue of land between the Lune and the Wenning. Later Hornby was made the head of a fee … and chapels around Melling suggests that this part of the Lune valley was at one time relatively far more populous and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the comparatively level ground on the left bank of the Lune in a north-east direction up the steep side of Leck and … of the manor of Tunstall had reclaimed banks left by the Lune in flood. For lack of pasture some oxgang land had been … R. 408, m. 27 d. Further, a mill had been erected on the Lune to the injury of the abbot's land but this complaint was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… about 1536 visited the place, and writes: 'I rode over Lune toward Warton, a vi. miles off, where Mr. Kitson was … hills not far off, and there ebbing and flowing, and about Lune sands going into the salt water. Warton is a pretty …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is a township and parish on the right bank of the Lune, with an area of 4,416 acres 1 and a population in 1901 … of the extent is formed by the level ground along the Lune; the rest is hilly, heights of 560 ft. and 600 ft. being … with the parish church, lies about a mile from the Lune, where the level tract spoken of begins to rise towards …
Parish Fraternity Register
… in English. See 52, 57. 114, where the date is given as 'lune proxima ante festum Sancti Gregorij Pape', i.e. 7 March …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles (N. W.) from Settle. The parish abuts on the vale of Lune to the west, and comprises a large area, of which 7402 … ware are manufactured. The river Greta, a tributary of the Lune, passes on the south. Near the village is Thornton Scar; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The township is beautifully situated on the rivers Lune and Conder, and comprises 1726 a. 1 r. 4 p., of which the surface is undulated, the soil moss by the Lune side, and in the higher parts clay; two-thirds of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Occupying rising ground on the east bank of the Lune, 1 where the river bed begins to widen into an estuary, … western boundary of the township was the midstream of the Lune, which within my own recollection often ran close to the …