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A History of the County of Stafford
… Townships Freeford FREEFORD Freeford, south-east of Lichfield, was formerly a township of 378 a. in … on the boundary with Lichfield by Freeford House; to the south it rises to 259 ft. (79 m.) at Freeford Manor and 328 … downstream in Streethay. A medieval leper hospital stood south of the junction of two roads from Lichfield, on the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… crosses the Wyre by a two-arched stone bridge. 3 At the south end of the town is the modern church, and at the north …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to confusion with Garstang. The township, bounded on the south-west by the River Mersey, has an area of 1,625 acres. 1 … bunter series of the new red sandstone or trias. To the south-east of Garston cliffs of drift boulder clay abut upon … in Garston. The base of one lies opposite the site of the south porch of the old chapel; the other was by the mill dam. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… fertile to produce potato and wheat crops, whilst in the south there are clumps of woodland about Golborne Park, … the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The St. Helens and South Lancashire Railway (Great Central) crosses the northern …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to Ogden Brook (9001,150 ft.) and more gradually on the south to about 650 ft. above sea level. In the south-eastern corner is another ridge, rising to 930 ft. The … known as Sabden, 1 is drained by Sabden Brook, which flows south-west to the Calder. There are two cotton factories, one …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… or farmsteads. The name belongs specially to the lower or south-western part of the township and to the village 3 round … north of the last-named, and has St. Anne's Well 4 to the south of it and Fairhurst to the north. Beesley is north of … in all directions, but more especially to the west and south-west. The 300-ft. line runs diagonally across the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Goreton, c. 1450. 1 This township 2 lies to the north and south of Gore or Rush Brook, which flows west to the Mersey. … known as Grindlow Marsh and Midway, lying to the north and south of Kirkmanshulme, having been considered as within … has a station called Gorton, 18428. A branch line going south-east crosses the western part of the township, with a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… surface is comparatively level, though rising towards the south-west, except for the clough or steep-banked valley … including that of Haulgh, in 1901 was 53,506. Formerly the south-western part of the township was occupied by the moor, … it at the point where its course changed from east to south. There were two noted wells, the memory of which is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the northern boundary; but the Copp, which occupies the south-west quarter, rises to a height of 55 ft. above the sea … the village. Eastward goes one to St. Michael's; east and south, another to Inskip; west, to Little Eccleston, in the … affording a way across the Wyre by Cartford Bridge; south, through Copp hamlet to Elswick. The township is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hyndburn, a tributary of the Calder, on the eastern and south-eastern boundary, and to Norden Brook on the south. On the north-west the boundary runs almost in a … and Yorkshire Co.'s line from Blackburn passes through the south side of the town, where there is a station, and …