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A History of the County of Lancaster
… the ancient seat of the lords of the manor. About a mile south of the town is Eccle Riggs, the seat of Viscount Cross. … the west, Greenslack and Greedy Gate by the sands to the south, Aulthurstside, Rosthwaite and Borderriggs to the east. … are to the north-east of the town. In the vale to the south-east is White Moss. The principal road is that from …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Fell, a ridge over 600 ft. high running north and south through the centre. On the western slope of it is … and Wood Broughton to the north and Aynsome to the south. The surface rises again on the western edge. On the south-east of the fell, sloping down to Morecambe Bay, is the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of it, Bryning at the north end and Kellamergh at the south end of a strip of land rising above the general level, … attained again on the eastern border. A road from north to south passes through the two hamlets, from each of which …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and north by the Lune. The ground slopes generally from south to north and from east to west, including low, level … was included in that of Lancaster and Quernmore. 1 The south-western portion has become a suburb of Lancaster. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Cheadle road passes through it from north to south, and there are cross roads. The village lies near the centre; Green End is further south, and Lane End and Catterick Hall border upon Didsbury. … Withington was Saltergate, supposed to be the present road south through Burnage, but the line of the road had been …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the lower slopes of land descending from Cliviger in the south-east and Marsden in the north-east towards the River … the township; it attains 630 ft. above sea level at the south-east boundary; from Marsden, where 775 ft. is attained, the surface descends gradually to the south and west; the height above the sea is 350 ft. at the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… nearly 251 a. (101. 2 ha.) in the corner of the parish south of Lichfield Road at Edial were transferred to … Biddulph's Pool, evidently formed in 1734. 8 Further south the brook is joined by Little Crane brook and becomes … followed Bilson brook (formerly Bourne brook). 13 On the south-east a short stretch of the boundary follows the upper …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… on the side of Barbon Fell. Leek Beck runs down near the south-east border till the more level ground is reached, … or Cowan Bridge, by which is Overtown, and then it goes south-west to join the Lune, thus dividing Over Burrow on the north from Nether Burrow on the south. The population in 1901 was 188. The principal roads …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1901 was 2,752. The highest ground lies on the south, where Greetby Hill (177 ft.) stands at the meeting … a station called New Lane. Burscough village lies to the south of the above. In Burscough the sites of several ancient … Lathom and Martin; Burscough Priory Cross was to the south, and Pippin Street Cross to the north of the priory; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 'cuts' into the Sankey Brook, which, winding from north to south-east and south, forms the boundary of the township on those sides. It … and from Bradley Brook on the north to Ravens Lache on the south, reserving therein to William le Boteler and his heirs …