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A History of the County of Lancaster
… now separated, lies between the River Ribble and Dinckley Brook, forming a slight plateau between these waters, with an …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Ditton DITTON Ditton, 1193. On the south, Ditton Brook and the low-lying marshy ground along it must once have … are formed in great measure by two small brooks, Moss Brook dividing Ditton from Widnes, and what was formerly called Halliwell Brook from Cronton. The country is flat and divided into …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Elizabeth his wife, John Banastre and Joan his wife, John Dean and Agnes his wife, Thomas Starkie and Alice his wife … been dissolved; Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), ii, 70. John Dean died in 1538 holding messuages and lands in Billington, … Already in 1536 William (described as son and heir of John Dean by Agnes sister and co-heir of Robert Worsley) had …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of Orm de Ashton, of the moiety of the land between Red Brook and Stony Brook, and the bounds of Werneth and the Medlock, provided … which is set upon Saltersgate, by the hedge, ditch, and brook to Cornbrook, by Cornbrook to the hedge of Ardwick, by …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… from north to south, exceeding 3 miles. Starling Brook, on the east, divides it from Aighton, and Stidd Brook, on the west, from Ribchester, while Dutton Brook flows south through a wooded valley in the centre to …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… called in its descent Hoddlesden, Grimshaw, or Davy Field Brook, forms the eastern and northern boundary before joining … Stanlaw Abbey the site of a tithe barn between Hoddlesden Brook and Eccleshill Mill, and in 1276 was committed to gaol … Halgh in the fork between the River Darwen and Hoddlesden Brook. 7 He had sons Richard and Robert, but the manor passed …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Eccleston, following a certain water called the Shaw brook by the division of Whiston and Rainhill to the Akenford … Sutton, and Rainhill, where it ceaseth to be calleth Shaw brook and beginneth to be called Ritherope brook; and so following the Chester gate between Wheashaw and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… extreme southern corner of its township between Bradshaw Brook, here expanded artificially to form a reservoir, and Quarlton Brook. The ground from this point rises continuously from 690 … Broadhead, and here the surface again rises from Bradshaw Brook until a height of 1,100 ft. is attained at the …