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A History of the County of Lancaster
… exceeding 150 feet on the north and northwest. Westleigh Brook traverses the township from north to south and presently unites with Hey or Pennington Brook, flowing from the west, which appears to have been at … for land lying between the Stubbymedowe and Westleigh Brook; Dods. MSS. lviii, 164, n. 7. Ibid. n. 2. Ibid. n. 5. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… not so named in the charter, was granted by Geoffrey the Dean to his servant Ellis, together with the demesne lands on …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the bounds beginning at Catshawsyke, going down to Burton Brook and as far as Rutingsyke, thence going up to Crowhaw …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… south or Whiston side; Chaps Clough, Church Lees, and Shea Brook are also named. Copped Holt was on the border of … Halsnead and Rainhill, and following the syke to Longleigh Brook in the south; along this to the Spital House in the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… down which flow some brooks; the chief is Blundel Brook, flowing west south-west and for about two miles forming the southern boundary. Savock Brook is the boundary on the south-east. The ordinary … a little less than half a mile to the north of the Blundel brook. It is now a two-story farm-house very much modernized …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the New Crook, descended to his son, Dr. Richard Clayton, Dean of Peterborough, 25 who died without issue, 26 and then … He became Archdeacon and Prebendary of Lincoln in 1595, Dean of Peterborough 1607, and warden of a hospital at …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… area of the township is 3,039 acres. 1 It is divided by a brook from Ditton on the west. The roads are numerous. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… on the eastern side, inclosed between the Douglas and a brook once called the Lorington, and now the Clarington, 1 … by Miles Gerard of Ince upon Lorington or Clarington Brook, the boundary of the manors of Wigan and Ince, and the … part of Scholes. Between these and Wigan town the Birley Brook flowed south to the Douglas. This is supposed to have …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… towards the south-west and slopes down steeply to Showley Brook, the boundary against Ramsgreave. In the south-eastern …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… west are Cowley Hill and Denton's Green. On the south a brook divides it from Eccleston, and is joined by the Rainford Brook, which runs across Windle. The highest point to the west of the latter brook, 185 ft., is at the northern boundary of St. Helens; …