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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 … Moor and Sourfield on the Tarbock side; the Marsh in the south; the Halgh, Balshaw, Ditchfield, and Cropped Wood …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Green and Newfield Barn, towards Gisburn in Yorkshire; south goes one to Radbrook and Worston; while east and south-east go two roads into Twiston, and then south round Pendle towards Newchurch and Burnley. The railway …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… ditch, and by this ditch to the Scaling, which was south of the pool head and near Harvey House. One of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… DROYLSDEN Drilesden, 1502. This township, 1 on the south side of the Medlock, has an area of 1,621 acres. The … from Clayton, the western half, by Edge Lane, running south from Newton to Openshaw; Little Droylsden 3 is a … 2 acres in extent in the extreme east of Openshaw. In the south-east corner of Droylsden lies the hamlet of Fairfield. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… valley, and the various peaks rising from 1,200 ft. in the south to over 2,500 ft. in the north. Seathwaite Tarn is … edge, stands almost by itself, with Newfield to the south. The population in 1901 was 263. The principal road enters the township at the south near Duddon Bridge, and proceeds up the river valley. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… township had a population of 164. In 1894 Clow Bridge, the south-east corner of Hapton, was added to this township 2; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… datum, the length in this direction, from north to south, exceeding 3 miles. Starling Brook, on the east, … on the west, from Ribchester, while Dutton Brook flows south through a wooded valley in the centre to join the Ribble. Stidd proper is in the south-west corner of the township, and its district stretches …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… park about the middle of the township, 1 miles to the south of Chorley, and externally is a plain modernlooking … having an east front 80 ft. in length and north and south wings extending westward 90 ft. and 97 ft. 6 in. … behind stone parapets, are covered with green slates. The south front faces on to a flower garden and from the east …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… reaches an elevation of 860 ft. at New Sett End on the south side of the township. The subsoil consists of the Coal … plantations. 1 The area of the township is 797 acres. The south-western part of the township was included in the … description of the boundaries of this land on the east, south and west these places are namedFrom Hoddesdene Brook up …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… surface rises from the Yarrow to the north-east and the south-east, reaching about 160 ft. above the ordnance datum in the south-east corner. The area is 2,089 acres, 1 and the … is yet filled with water. The house, which stands at the south-east end of the village, a mile from the church, is now …