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A History of the County of Lancaster
… The principal roads are those from Rochdale southwest and west through Marland to Bury, with a branch south through … Castleton village, formerly called Blue Pits, to Middleton and Manchester; south through Buersill and Balderstone to Oldham; and east to Milnrow. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Cheetham CHEETHAM Chetham, 1212 and usually; Chetam, 1276; Cheteham, 1590; Cheetham, xvi … bank of the Irk, has an extreme length of nearly 2 miles, and an area of 919 acres. The high land in the northern part slopes down to the Irk, and more gradually to the south, where the Irwell is the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Cowpe, Lench, Newhall, Hey and Hall Carr COWPE, LENCH, NEWHALL HEY, HALL CARR Couhope, … slope of the ridge which divides the hundreds of Blackburn and Salford, being included in the former, though the manor and parish to which it belongs are in the latter. The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Townships Curborough and Elmshurst CURBOROUGH AND ELMHURST The civil parish of Curborough and Elmhurst, … along the Lichfield-Stafford road. The subsoil is Keuper Marl, with a band of Keuper Sandstone along the western …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Denton DENTON Dentun, c. 1220; Denton, 1282, and usually. This township, lying in the bend of the River … from Haughton. The population of the two townships, Denton and Haughton, together numbered 14,934 in 1901. The principal … from west to east, leading from Manchester to Hyde and passing through the village of Denton. Crossing it, on …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… into three parts by the parallel streams of the Conder and Cocker, flowing mainly south-west through the central … but turning north-west to form the boundaries of Thurnham and Holleth respectively. The old chapel lies on the south … manor of Ellel, had made waste therein, digging for marl and clay and selling the same, pulling down a hall, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… but 6 a. of its 1,313 a.), the parish of Tamhorn (793 a.), and a small portion of the parishes of Elford and Wigginton. … of the Tame formerly known as Tamhorn brook. 5 The Keuper Marl underlies the north part of the parish, the Keuper … park in 1772 when a Thomas Weston was killed by a fall of marl there, and a stone cutter living at Fisherwick died in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… chapelry forms a detached portion of the parish of Walton, and including the manors and hamlets of Raven Meols on the southwest and Ainsdale on the north, has an area of 6,619 acres, 4,502 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 25 ft. to 100 ft. It lies in the hundred of Amounderness, and a small part is within the parish of Garstang. There is … or hamlet of any size. The area measures 1,279 acres, 1 and in 1901 the population was 539. The main road from … The soil is sandy loam and clayey, with a subsoil of marl. There is a parish council. A school board was formed in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hetton, 1196; Heton, 1212; Heaton Norreys, 1364; Heyton and Heaton Norres, xvi cent. This township stretches from … the south, a distance of 2 miles; it measures about a mile and a half from east to west, and has an area of 2,115 acres. The highest ground is in the …