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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… opinion may be adduced the name of an adjacent vill called Portwood, also omitted in the survey, the first notice of … London; on the north-east, by a bridge over the Mersey, to Portwood; on the west, in the direction of Cheadle; and … of celebrity. Within the town, including HeatonNorris and Portwood, are not less than fifty cottonfactories, worked by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Westmorland replaced it by a bridge, designed by George Portwood of Stamford, on the site of the present one (NRO, …