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A History of the County of Lancaster
… scenery in contrast with the surrounding collieries of a black country. It is a common sight to see the gaunt and black coal-shafts rising from the midst of corn fields and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… tower is standing; but the church, said to have been a 'black and white' timbered building, was replaced in 1754 by … and Sir Gilbert Ireland (1675); only the latter, of black marble, has been preserved. 135 The chapel continued in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… formed of the remaining three sides.' Very little of the black and white work facing the quadrangle is original, and … and drawing-rooms), is also elaborately fitted up with black oak but mostly of later date than that of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… as Norton Pool, formed as a canal reservoir c. 1798. 7 Black brook, known as Hammerwich Water in the early 19th …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a level-surfaced country dotted over with collieries and black pit-banks. A close network of tramways and railways …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… monuments, &c.; 'Mr. Richard Beverley, Prior of the Black Friars at Lancaster, or in his absence another doctor …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of ancient oak, which age had turned to a dark brown or black colour. The upper rooms are panelled and have large …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… The general aspect is unpleasing, it being a typical black country in the heart of the coal-mining area. The flat … erected about the reign of James I, with a picturesque black and white front of five gables. 36 The entrance hall is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Melling, the Old Marsh, the Low Marsh, the Elcom acre, and Black carr; ibid. O. i, 4, 5, 7; also Pal. of Lanc. Feet of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… embedded in the turf upon Kearsley moor. The timber was as black as ebony,' but not so well preserved as usual. 6 Manor … to Longshaw, and straight to the Edge in Lepar Lache, by Black. Lache to Walden Brook, and up the brook to the Hope … to an exchange of landsin the Newfield, the Marsh, and Black Bottomwith John de Hulton; no. 93. Richard son of John …