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A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1665. 22 The inquisitions yield the names of a few of the old landholders 23; among them was Edward Mercer, 24 who died … a preceding note. The family seems to be that seated at Old Withington in Prestbury; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), … of 3 s. 11 d.; William his son and heir was fifteen years old; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 43. This property was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… This was the Brerebutts or Mill Close, 14 the site of the old Lune mill. The custom of tenant right, said to prevail …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the church; Bank Hall, Danes or Dancer House, the Old Hall and Barden to the north; Crowwood and Royle to the … Salford, which gave a name to the district around it. The old township does not extend to Pendle Water, part of New … to Todmorden, but this lies south and outside of the old township. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal goes north …
A History of the County of Stafford
… transformed. New centres of population developed rapidly. Old roads were realigned or obliterated and new ones were … in Ironstone Road in 1868; Ironstone Road itself was an old road across the heath. Building plots in a new road … was an inhabited area in 1275, 118 but its name, probably Old English in origin and meaning Abba's nook of land, 119 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… no. 24. The surname does not occur again. Adam Gibson of Old Wennington and Anabil his wife held a messuage and land … styled daughters and co-heirs of Nicholas Tatham of the Old Hall of Nether Burrow. John Fenwick acquired the manor of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… being the northern piers of the central tower; portions of old walls remain just below the surface of the ground. In … site of the twelfth-century cloister, and preserved the old arrangement after the eastward enlargement of the church … H. Taylor in Lancs. and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xix, 1503. An old cottage is described in Addy's Evolution of the House, p. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a plat of land, meadow, and waste in Burtonwood and in the old park of 'Beausi,' and 1 acre in the field of Harderslegh, … name of two fields called The Parks, near the site of the old hall. 43 Part of the ancient manorhouse, including the … made, to the 'alde paleis' in the said park, and along the old pales to the house late of Robert Curtays, thence by an …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the township. The church is situated above what was the old course of the Irwell, the ground falling rapidly to the … of Tharcake, was made at the beginning of November. 8 The old festivals were those of the Royal Oak, Robin Hood, and … and thirty councillors. The area, more exten sive than the old township, 49 is divided into five wards Church, Redvales, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… occupied as cottages, and these are the only parts of the old house at present in a state of repair, the outer walls … five lights each and one with two. All the windows in the old part of the house, with the exception of those to the … rises a full story above the lines of the eaves of the old roofs, and consequently overshadows the courtyard on the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a further messuage and 6 oxgangs there, an eighth part of Old Wennington, and land in Wrayton. 15 William de Tunstall … His son and heir, William Tunstall, was twenty-four years old. 30 The new lord made a feoffment of his castle or manor … son Francis as heir, but under age, being seventeen years old. 56 He obtained the inheritance in 1591, 57 but was …