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A History of the County of Lancaster
… chapelry of Colne embraces the townships of Colne, Marsden and Foulridge, Barrowford Booth in Pendle, and Trawden. The main portion of Colne township lies on the … two portions of Foulridge, extends to the county border and includes the elevation called Piked Edge, 1,165 ft.; the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the Wyre, but its breadth seldom exceeds half a mile, and the area measures but 502 acres. 2 The little town of … 3 At the south end of the town is the modern church, and at the north end is a station on the single-line railway which branches from the London and North-Western main line to go to Pilling and Knott End. 4 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… ridge which is severed from Billington Moor by Dean Brook, and has elevations of 772 ft. above the ordnance datum on Harwood Ridge and 650 ft. on Bowley Hill. From the latter a wide landscape … in 1631 for having made clandestine marriages, for drunkenness and for being 'a common ale-house haunter.' 50 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… surface, though level, rises somewhat towards the east, and on the higher land is placed the village of Layton, just … town by railway: the old line, a branch from the Preston and Fleetwood railway turning off at Poulton with a terminus … the south through Lytham, with a station at South Shore and a terminus near the Tower; and a more direct line from …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… passed on the death of Thomas Grelley to his sister Joan and her husband John La Warre. 4 For over a century it … by her husband Sir Thomas, third Lord West. 5 The manor and its dependencies were in 1579 sold for 3,000 by the heir of the Wests to John Lacy, citizen and clothworker of London; 6 and Lacy in 1596 sold them to …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… clock-tower, 1 is about half a mile north of the river, and from it the principal thoroughfare of the town, the wide … called Fishergate, goes west to the railway station, and then turning to the south-west descends to the riverside, 2 and bending south 3 along the Ribble reaches Penwortham …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Treasury Books and Papers June 1730, 120 June 1730, 120 June 1. 297. The … London, for repairing their crazy tenements, &c. Read and referred to Mr. Auditor Jett. The Report of the … late an assistant for the duties on soap, discharged for drunkenness and neglect of duty. 1 page. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Tudor and Stuart Colchester Borough government BOROUGH GOVERNMENT … confirmed by inspeximus in 1488, 1547, 1553, 1559, 1605, and 1629. To earlier privileges was added exemption from … by excluding those convicted of adultery, fornication, drunkenness, or swearing, besides victuallers and those who …
A History of the County of Essex
… Tudor and Stuart Colchester Introduction TUDOR AND STUART COLCHESTER INTRODUCTION The earlier 16th century … borough began to recover about the middle of the century, and its economy was greatly boosted from 1565 by the arrival …
A History of the County of Essex
… Tudor and Stuart Colchester Social structure SOCIAL STRUCTURE Between the 1520s and the 1670s Colchester's population perhaps trebled and its … and other lewd persons' and blamed for beastliness and drunkenness which was 'the utter undoing' of many poor …