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A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Caton on the north from Over Wyresdale on the south and parting the valleys of the Lune and Wyre contain … part as the Little Fylde, is flat and lies low, while the south-eastern half, though it has some marshy land, stands … constructed c. 1209, and to this period the work in the south-west tower, known as Adrian's Tower, corresponds, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… sea. The Preston and Longridge railway passes through the south-eastern corner of the township, where there is a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… with Stalmine to the north and east and Staynall to the south-west, has a total area of 2,583 acres, 1 the two … River Wyre forms the western boundary, and upon it, at the south of Staynall, is the hamlet of Wardleys, where before …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… acres, bounded on the north, east, and partly on the south by the hundred of Salford, on the west by the parish of Wigan, and on the south-west by the parish of Winwick. As its name denotes it … the full length of the building. There are north and south aisles to both nave and chancel, the east bay of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of ST. ANDREW, 6 is situated on elevated ground at the south-east end of the village, and consists of chancel with … they are now wholly invisible. 8 Some alterations in the south-east corner in 1852, which necessitated the entire … in the head, and two smaller but similar windows in the south side with a priest's doorway, now built up, and a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… close by, with Gressingham, Claughton and Hornby to the south-west, and Tunstall and Whittington to the northseven or … a large part being the sparsely occupied fell country south of the Wenning. The population in 1901 numbered 1,589. … of a chancel 36 ft. by 20 ft., with short north and south aisles and north vestry, nave 49 ft. by 18 ft. 8 in. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Generally speaking the land slopes down from north and south towards the centre of the parish where the village of … lime trees. Opposite the church is the village school, south-east of which is the vicarage. Immediately north of the … line, branches north-west to the station on the London and South Western Railway, near the northern boundary of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… valley of the Irk. It consists of chancel, with north and south chapels and south vestry, nave with north and south aisles, south porch and west tower. There is no …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and north transept: lighted by three windows on the south side, and two semicircular ones in the chancel.' 6 In … The nave has precisely similar windows and a plain south doorway, over which are inscriptions as to the building … from that above by a moulded string, and has on its south face a tablet with an arched head. At the top of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… The parish is over nine miles in length from north-west to south-east, and about five miles in width from Ormskirk to … boundary of the parish, now drained. Several brooks flow south through Bickerstaffe, to join the Alt or the Mersey. … 5 while the portion which lay upon the ridge and to the south of itSkelmersdale and Bickerstaffewas outside it. This …