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A History of the County of Lancaster
… 16001; Margaret his daughter and heir was then two years old. The estates were willed to the heirs male in succession …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… been preserved. 16 The water-mill called Lune Mill and the old mill called Brook Mill were worth 12 a year. There were … Corp. D. In 1714 Thomas Tyldesley went to Scale Hall with old Mr. Hornby to look at his new stable; Diary, 145. In 1772 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… has disappeared. When the Unitarians were ejected from the old Risley Chapel in Culcheth they built for themselves a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… character notorious for panting after the fortunes of the old and childless.' The marriage took place in 1736, and the … which is used to such excellent purpose in many of the old timber houses of the district, occurs in the courtyard … window The chamber at the stair-head The chamber over the old chapel called Sir Thomas Gerard's chamber The painted …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Whitworth. The local board of Norden, a place whose old name was Blackpits, was formed in 1878; it became a … the mouth of each the head of a crosier issuant or. The old 'town of Spotland' afterwards became divided into the … 2 d. respectively; his son and heir John was thirty years old. 23 Chadwick of Chadwick. Gules an escutcheon within an …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… variety of dates is interesting and not unpicturesque, the old black and white 16th-century wingthe upper part of which … over it, on the upper floor, probably preserve the old plan, though two of the rooms are modernized. The third, however, as well as the corridor, retains its old oak panelling, and a door at the end of the corridor has …
A History of the County of Stafford
… council houses were built on the south side of Burton Old Road in the early 1950s, and a small estate of privately … 1375. 38 It was joined south of Streethay hamlet by Burton Old Road, a name also given to the stretch of Ryknild Street … route from Lichfield to Burton upon Trent was by Burton Old Road, which was turnpiked in 1729. A tollgate stood near …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Crosford. The north-eastern portion is called Trafford or Old Trafford; a ford over the Irwell is said to have been … was 30,436. The principal road is that on the line of the old Roman road from Chester to Manchester, and crosses the … roads go east and west to Fallowfield and to Urmston. Old Trafford has to some extent become urban, and there are …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… boundary of Tarbock is formed principally by the old course of the Ditton Brook and its affluent the Netherley … and copper coins was discovered at a farm called the Old Sprink in 1838. 2 MANOR The manor of TARBOCK was held by … He gave to St. Werburgh's at Warburton the assart called Old Tarbock, the eastern end of which stretched as far as …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… mean sea-level, in the centre of the township, with the old manor house, now a farm house, and a few other dwellings. …