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A History of the County of Lancaster
… sandhills, covered with a luxuriant growth of creeping willows and star grass, the latter being systematically …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Mill Hill on the east, rises, falls and rises again to the Willows at the west. A road branches south to Freckleton, … Roman Catholic church of St. John the Evangelist, at the Willows, represents the old mission at Mowbreck. This was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was said to be about 180. See Liverpool Cath. Annual (Willows); Gillow, Haydock Papers, 68, 79. In 1769 was printed …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is usually called Newton in Makerfield or Newton le Willows, to distinguish it from other places of the name. It … pleasantly situated; by it is a large lake surrounded by willows. Earlestown has the less pleasant surroundings of … John Blackburne, M.P., sold it to the Leghs. 29 Newton le Willows Hall is a small H-shaped house standing north and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… ibid. i, 169; ii, 72. George Rogerson, 1620, the Water Willows, &c.; ibid. ii, 189. Thomas Shireburne of Heysham, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and an earlier example of the kind occurs at Newtonle-Willows Hall. The White Cross, formerly at the west entrance … to it. The first railway was a branch from Newton-le-Willows, on the Liverpool and Manchester line, to Bewsey …