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A History of the County of Lancaster
… rises again to the Willows at the west. A road branches south to Freckleton, from the old market square, and another … had from Adam de Newton. The parcel was a corner at the south end adjoining a burgage called the Kilnyard. The deed …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… township is bounded on two sides by the Wyre, which flows south and then turns sharply to the west at a point where it … bank is situated the old parish church, nearly two miles south of Garstang. The hamlet called Churchtown adjoins. The … village and has a plain 18th-century brick front facing south, three stories in height, with cornice, wide pediment, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… soil is variable, sometimes sandy loam, or peat. In the south-eastern part of the township the geological formation … with an east wing some 415 ft. long, joined towards its south end by a south wing about 290 ft. long, the latter being the older …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… into Skerton. There are still fields and open lands to the south-west, while on the east side the park and the asylum … township proper is 1,491 acres, but by various extensions south, east and north it has been increased to 3,506 acres, … opportunity has allowed. The entrance to the town from the south, after descending from 'Pointer' on the Scotforth Road …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the 25 ft. level; in the west are Blythe Hall, and to the south of it, New Park, on the edge of which it is believed … Brook is Wirples Moss, adjoining Hoscar; while in the south is the hamlet of Westhead, near which is Cross Hall. … and contains a village green with a restored cross. To the south the country becomes singularly unpicturesque, with …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1279. This township includes Blackpool with its suburb of South Shore; it has an area of 2,359 acres, but was in 1894 … is on the extreme eastern border. Layton Hawes was at the south end of the township; horse races used to be held there … Road, near the North Pier; a second line, coming from the south through Lytham, with a station at South Shore and a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Savick Brook, flowing west to the border, and then turning south to become itself the boundary at that point. The Ribble's old course is the boundary on the south. The river is tidal here, and the land by it is level, … was formerly divided by the Savock into French Lea on the south and English Lea, now Lea Town, on the north, but the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… by Nico Ditch, on the east by Pinkbank Lane, 1 and on the south by the Black Brook. The surface is level, sloping down … from Manchester crosses the township in a southerly and south-easterly direction. Adlands Lane and Barlow Lane go … passing through the hamlet of Back Levenshulme, to the south of which lies Cradock Fold. The London and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… part, that to the east of the River Lostock, here flowing south to join the Yarrow, has an undulating surface rising … and Earnshaw Bridge and Straits in the north-west. To the south of the village lies Worden, with its park of 300 acres. … 6,865. Three principal roads go through the township from south to north. Of these the central one passes Worden and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the new red sandstone or triassic formation; that of the south-western of the waterstones of the same series. The … this respect it is precisely like its neighbours north and south. Nearly one-half of the township is covered by the sea … lands to William Moore; they included parts of Orgreaves, South Holmes, Crosby Styes, 'a broddoll of meadow' in the …