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A History of the County of Lancaster
… river of Yarrow, and adjacent to it a fair arched stone bridge over the said river in London post-road . . . and below the bridge standeth a paper-mill, and a little below that another …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1901. Pop. Returns, 1901. Opened 29 May 1838; Dixon Fold Bridge, Stoneclough Bridge, Tunnel (now Farnworth), and Moses Gate were the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Sugar Brook up to the point where it is spanned by Stone bridge. At the junction of these brooks on the border of … a messuage in Walton brought by John son of John del Bridge; Duchy of Lanc. Assize R. 8, m. 4. In 1379 Isabel … Inq. p. m. (Rec. Soc. Lancs, and Ches.), iii, 389. The Bridge family occur early, but no connected account can be …
A History of the County of Stafford
… slopes up from 191 ft. (58 m.) by the Tame at Elford bridge to 250 ft. (76 m.) on the boundary south-west of … 19 The settlement may have been in decay by 1585 when its bridge and highways were in disrepair. 20 There were at least … east and south of the park to Whittington village. 56 A bridge at Timmor, described as on the highway between Timmor …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… by way of Walton-le-Dale, passes through Fishwick, and the bridge across the river there has long been pre-eminently 'Ribble Bridge.' From the bridge a minor road leads north-east towards the hall and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the church and then to the side of the Mersey; there is a bridge over the river at Carrington. 62 From the church a … in a loss to the township. Population Ret. Old Carrington Bridge, pulled down about 1840, was a foot bridge, and carts had to cross by the ford. Another ford the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… road is that from Liverpool to Southport, from Alt Bridge northwards through Formby and Ainsdale. The village is … Hang Lane; also the garden which the grantor had in Rysin Bridge and the messuage which Roger de Argarmeols held; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… north, which here crosses the Wyre by a two-arched stone bridge. 3 At the south end of the town is the modern church, … The first Earl of Derby left 20 towards the building of a bridge here; V.C.H. Lancs, iii, 160, n. 6. This railway was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… ( c. 1310) mentions several field names Hungry hill, Bridge greves, Galghstan field, Long doles, and the moss; in … of 1577 Leafurlong, abutting on the road called Greengate; Bridge Greaves; Whyndow Hey (the older Quindal, in the … her marriage a plot in the newly ploughed land outside the Bridge greves, for the rent of a pair of white gloves; Norris …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… houses had as many as six hearths liable. 10 The Maidens' Bridge replaced stepping stones over the brook on the road … from Gorton to Denton in 1737. 11 Longsight or Rushford Bridge, over Gore Brook, was built in 1751. 12 The stocks … Subs. R. bdle. 250, no. 9. Higson, Gorton Rec. 87; the bridge was widened in 1810. Ibid. 95. Ibid. 89; their …