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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… elce to be seen especially Buck Wheat or as we call it in Lancashire French Wheat' [Diaries (Blundell)]. John Holt, … that 'a small quantity of buckwheat also [is grown in Lancashire] for the use of poultry, or to be ploughed in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire; adjoining the town of Lancaster, comprising 1086 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… greatly to the promotion of its trade. The East Lancashire railway now runs by the town; and there is a …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… of earlier owners is contained in a fine of lands in the Lancashire vills of Wrightington, Parbold and Dalton, made in … "priestes"; Lawrence Starky, then the king's "receyvor" of Lancashire, William Claghton, Richard Newton, John Langton, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Liverpool, Wigan, Bolton, and Bury; 2nd., the East Lancashire; and 3rd., the Bury and Heywood branch of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… left for destinations in Staffordshire, Birmingham, and Lancashire from the Vine in Horninglow Street and the Nag's …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to develop other markets, especially in London and South Lancashire, and further afield in North America and … 'tied houses', notably in North Staffordshire, South Lancashire, and Wales. 1 Breweries were also keen to protect … of his operations to Burton following riots in 1779 at his Lancashire mills and built a cotton mill on the site of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… not well march with their bundles'. 15 Thomas Tyldesley, a Lancashire royalist in the queen's army, was knighted for his … making became important in its place, and in the 1780s the Lancashire cotton manufacturer, Robert Peel, opened mills in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… ceased meeting soon after. When Richard Thomson of Lancashire, a Particular Baptist and cotton spinner, came to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… county of Lancaster; comprising the township of Dalton, in Lancashire, and the townships of Burton, Holme, Holmscale, …