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A History of the County of Lancaster
… the keuper series. The soil is clay and sand. Formerly a brook 4 rose in the eastern side of Parliament Fields, at the … little farther to the south another creek once received a brook which rose near the centre of the township; 5 the … The church was built for Hugh MacNeile, D.D. afterwards dean of Ripon, for thirty years one of the most influential …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… with two main depressions through which run Trawden Brook and Wycoller Brook to join Colne Water or Laneshaw Brook, which forms part … west to the crossing of a groove or slack called Wallshaw Dean Head, ascending the moor to Floites Syke, crossing a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… being attained; but this declines somewhat sharply to the brook which forms the boundary between Treales and Kirkham. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and eastern boundaries flows the Cadshaw or Bradshaw Brook, on the upper part of which have been formed two large … The village of Turton, called Chapeltown, lies near this brook about the centre of the valley, close to the junction … of Turton, Edgeworth, Quarlton, and Bradshaw. Billy Brook bounds Chapeltown on the west and south; to the south …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… boundary is formed by Ings Beck and the western by a small brook dividing it from Downham. There are a few scattered … was attested by Simon de Heriz, then steward, Roger, Dean of Whalley (dead in 1249), and others. Lancs. Inq. and … Lister had a son Anthony named below; ibid. T 16. John Dean was said to hold his lands in Twiston of the king as …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… were places called Herbert's Clough, Cart Leach, Wych Brook, and Fairhurst Sike. 9 Henry son of the above Henry … following Blakesic to Blakelowe broc, following that brook to an oak tree marked with a cross in Haylege Komb, … of Shakerley, who married a sister of George Marsh of Dean, was imprisoned as a Protestant in the Marian …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1321. 1 This township is crossed by the Lostock brook, flowing south-west to join the Yarrow. Wymott brook, an affluent, divides Ulnes Walton from Bretherton. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in Osmotherley, 2 miles to the north. Lightburn, another brook, used to run along the south side of the town to join … the Levy Beck in a picturesque wooded ravine and a small brook passes the house on the east side at a distance of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… formed by the River Douglas and its affluent the Dean Brook, the surface rises rapidly to a point near the middle … Henry Orrell was a defendant in a suit respecting Dean riddings in 1516; Ducatus, i, 127. William Orrell and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… no pedigree appears. 55a Hillam, 56 the Lodge, 57 and Brook House 58 represent old estates. A ghost story was told …