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A History of the County of Lancaster
… There are three approaches to the town by railway: the old line, a branch from the Preston and Fleetwood railway … in 1292 27 and 1498, 28 but approved. LAYTON HALL, the old manor-house, appears to have been sold by William … Whinney Heys, as maintaining this character [of the plain old English gentleman] during the eventful periods of 1715 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to become itself the boundary at that point. The Ribble's old course is the boundary on the south. The river is tidal … south and English Lea, now Lea Town, on the north, but the old names have long been forgotten. On the northern border is … settled on a small estate known as The Tagg in Cottam, the old dower house of the family, and there were born Thomas …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… there to Osbert by the same rent, and 30 acres in Alton (old town) to Gilbert son of Orm, by a rent of spurs or 3 d.; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was the older form of the name; it was also called the Old London Road; see Booker, Birch Chapel (Chet. Soc.), 173. … a year; Edmund, the son and heir of William, was one year old; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1482. Sir John Legh, son of Edmund, … in 1861; Lond. Gaz. 28 June. Booker, op. cit. 235. The old chapel and graveyard were closed in 1866. The chief …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… parts of the older house known as Shaw Hall. The old building was enlarged and altered by Sir William … J. N. Farington from the designs of Anthony Salvin. Worden Old Hall, now a farm-house, is situated in the extreme … the porch and small gable over probably belonging to the old front. The brickwork is now whitewashed and the gables …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the borders of Orrell. The Church Field was north of the old village, on the borders of Ford; the reason for this …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… or refounder of Bolton Grammar School. 21 DARCY LEVER OLD HALL stands 2 miles southeast of Bolton on high ground … erected with which one of the lower rooms of Darcy Lever Old Hall on the south side has been incorporated, the two …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Bridge Street, St. George's Road leads west to Chorley Old Road, from which Chorley New Road branches off. Marsden … later, leaving as heir his son Robert, only eleven years old. 9 The younger Robert died in 1579, and the heir, his son … the hall is situated was rebuilt in brick between the old timber framing and frced externally with timber and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was taken and imprisoned at Chester for some time. The old Lancaster indictment was revived, and husband and wife … enclosed within his own demesne land in a place called of old time, as it is now also, the Harkirk.' Harkirk was used …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… lay west of a boundary running from Robert de Berdeworth's old dyke to the new boundary between Ralph and Henry de …