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A History of the County of Lancaster
… by Mr. Holme, vicar of Kirkby Ireleth, by virtue of the Dean of York's licence. Mr. Holme would not allow the doors …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the road from Liverpool to Walton. To the north rose a brook which ran down to the river by Bank Hall. 3 From the … side of it stood Blackfield House. To the south a small brook ran into the Mersey, forming the division between this …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… east, forming a slight valley, through which the boundary brook flows. The principal road is that from Preston … the history of which has already been recorded. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, leased the manor … is preserved in Towneley's MS. OO. Information of the Dean of Christ Church. Formerly the rectory and manor were …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… named as growing in the wood. Ounespool seems to be the brook falling into the Wyre a quarter of a mile west of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… son of Gamel, the bounds starting from the rise of the brook at Watercarr, across to the road to Glest (in … Henry Halsall, knight, steward of his house, Henry Sherman dean of his chapel, Thomas Hesketh, Edward Molyneux rector of … of Exeter, Geoffrey Blythe bishop of Chester, John Veysey dean of the king's chapel, and Thomas Larke rector of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… thence outside Haverbreaks to the bridgehead along the brook; thence to Whitewell on the Greaves, to Bolron Brook, to St. Patrick's Well by Bowrams, to Wolfall Well …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… abode, known as Alton or Olton. To the west of Eller Brook is Wirples Moss, adjoining Hoscar; while in the south … a hamlet. 96 There was a small ford over Edgeacre (Eller) Brook, lying to the south of Blythe, which is more than once … that any new one should not be set up on Scakerdale Brook nor on the Burscough side of Alton, and that they might …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… into two nearly equal parts by the Savock or Savick Brook, flowing west to the border, and then turning south to … French Lea, as above stated, lay between the Savock Brook and the Ribble; in this part the hall was built; while … he returned to Rome, and had the titular dignity of Dean of Dublin. He died at Rome in 1605. 74 William Haydock, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the east by Pinkbank Lane, 1 and on the south by the Black Brook. The surface is level, sloping down a little towards …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… boundaries began at the highway where it descended to the brook between Leyland and Clayton, ascended this brook to Werden, along Werden south to Sussnape, then …