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A History of the County of Lancaster
… of potatoes and wheat are raised on a loamy soil. Sankey Brook forms the south-eastern boundary. On the north-east a brook flowing into the Sankey divides it from Burtonwood, and the Whittle Brook on the south serves for a partition from Penketh. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… area of 1,184 acres, stretching from the Ribble to Savock Brook. It is divided from Elston on the east by a wooded … an exchange of land called Elondes, the bounds naming the brook which formed the division between Brockholes and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… one of the Holden heirs. 30 The Sagers' estate at Cowden Brook or Cole Clough descended to the Veevers family. 31 … granted by Roger de Lacy to Geoffrey son of Robert the Dean of Whalley, who was authorized to maintain a … copies. Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), H 155. Geoffrey Dean of Whalley and his sons Robert and Henry were among the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… it is bounded by the Douglas, and on the north a small brook running into the Douglas divides it from Blackrod. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… as most of the surface is above the 200-ft. level. Blundel Brook forms the northern boundary, while Savock Brook, flowing through a little valley, cuts off the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… lighthouse. The northern boundary is mainly formed by Rams Brook. The land is flat, interspersed with plantations and … Coddington near Chest. resigning in 1394 on appointment as dean of St. John's, Chest. He was also a canon of this … references to Layot. Sir John Colville and Richard Leyot, dean of St. Asaph, were in 1419 entrusted with the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… This township lies between the old course of the Ditton Brook on the north and Rams Brook on the south, both running into the Mersey. Halewood … series, but a fault running from the mouth of the Rams Brook to Halewood Station throws down these beds, and in the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 12778. Halliwell is divided into two portions by a brook which runs east into the Tonge; the southern portion, … 1,475, on the border of Horwich. To the north of Deane Brook, almost to the limit of the township towards Bolton, … being close to the junction of two streams, one the Astley Brook, a quarter of a mile to the south, and the other the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… county is obtained. The northern arm of the Downholland Brook rises in and drains part of the district, running … of Bechak, from this cross in length 26 perches to the brook, and thence up the brook to Sandiford, the mill site being excepted; Cockersand …
A History of the County of Stafford
… east and, with other gravelly drift, in the west. 6 Crane brook, mentioned in 1300, flows out of Chasewater, which was … Norton Pool, formed as a canal reservoir c. 1798. 7 Black brook, known as Hammerwich Water in the early 19th century, 8 … remained part of Farewell manor, which was granted to the dean and chapter on the priory's suppression in 1527 and to …