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A History of the County of Lancaster
… Katherine his wife in 1457 purchased lands in Upton and in Widnes from Robert de Ditton, with reversion of those in the … with the proviso that one leper within the lordship of Widnes should be maintained by the canons, that mass should …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Widnes WIDNES Wydenesse, Wedenes, 1300; Wydnes, 1347. Apelton, 1180; Appelton, 1198; Apulton, 1332. Widnes appears at first to have been the name of the … and Lugdale have recently become hamlets or suburbs of Widnes town. The marshy district by the Mersey was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to Wigan, with one at Carr Mill; to Liverpool, and to Widnes. The Liverpool. St. Helens, and South Lancashire … at a point at which various roads intersected, as from Widnes or Warrington to Lathom and Ormskirk, and from Prescot … numbers of such houses were in Prescot thirty-two, and in Widnes twenty-six. Lady Kenyon, writing in 1797, says: 'St. …
A History of the County of Chester
… Whitchurch, Nantwich, Winsford, Northwich, Runcorn, Widnes, Ellesmere Port, and in west Wirral almost as far as …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 16; 2nd baronet, died in 1681. Wright, Henry s. Th., of Widnes, co. Lancaster, gent. Brasenose Coll., matric. 2 July, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Little Woolton was early held of the barony of Widnes, in alms, by the hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem …