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A History of the County of Lancaster
… corner, a height of about 230 ft. being attained. Barton Brook, formed by Westfield Brook and Sparling Brook from east and north-east respectively, runs diagonally …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Davyhulme portion was crossed from east to west by a small brook, a tributary of the Irwell, the confluence marking the … proper, and Moorside are on the south side of this brook, with Calderbank to the west, and Lostock in the eastern corner. On the north bank of the brook Bent Lanes occupied an area formed by a bend of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1200, 1296. The ford of Beda, probably through Pennington Brook where it is now spanned by Breaston Bridge, gave name … which still survives in Breaston Bridge, spanning Bedford Brook. The descent of a fourth part of a manor which John de …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Makerfield. The south-western boundary is formed by Black Brook, near which lies Birchley; and the south-eastern by the … to the south-west boundary, which is formed by Black Brook, and also to the west and north. This ridge of high … Bispham Hall, Gautley, and the Great Moss. On the east a brook divides the township from Winstanley; Longshaw lies …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the township. The western boundary is formed by Dinckley Brook and the eastern by a long ridge called Billington Moor, … freeholds to the ancestors of Braddyll, Hacking, Cunliffe, Dean and Bolton. The history of the first-named manor is … son of Henry de Whalley son of Geoffrey the elder, Dean of Whalley, and had issue Adam de Billington, Richard, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the tithes of corn and grain from Birkdale; Birkdale Brook was the boundary, and he received nothing from lands to … To the east were the Mosses, divided from the Heys by a brook. Duchy of Lanc. Depos. 1701, n. 3. These and other …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… boundary on the south-west, while on the north the Bentley brook forms most of the separation from Mawdesley. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… somewhat more from east to west. In the southern part a brook runs westward down Boggart Hole Clough. 1 Barnes Green … registers begin in 1655. 56 The patronage is vested in the Dean and canons of Manchester, and the following is a list of … the Inner Temple, Thomas Sampson, afterwards the Puritan dean of Christ Church, Oxford, also had great influence with …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… The area, which measures 4,483 acres, 1 is divided by a brook, now called Whittle Brook, but formerly Holbrook, running across it from the … near Hurlischalles; along a syke and boundary to Pighills Brook; by the latter on the west side to the east of Combal …