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A History of the County of Lancaster
… he paid 10 after refusing knighthood. 20 From this time little can be said of the family, except the details in the … is in an even worse state than the outside, and very little of interest remains. The principal apartment, or great … James, high sheriff, 1791, d. 1846; Heywood N. and Q. (ed. Green), iii, 35. James Starky in 1795 paid more than half the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the Manchester and Bury road. Other roads go west through Little Lever to Bolton. The Lancashire and Yorkshire … Irwell till it joins the Manchester and Bolton Canal in Little Lever. 3 Dr. Aikin in 1795 found the 400 houses in the … printed at Bury. A Roman road, commemorated by Blackburn Street, passed northwards through Radcliffe Bridge. There was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Roman station: on its north-east side it is bounded by a little brook, on the south-east by the River Ribble, both … 12 and in 1736 the west gallery was erected. After this little seems to have been done to the building till 1830, … or Wylsett; Foster, Alumni), was rector of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, in 1518 to 1528, and became clerk of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… known was Mark Nield, 1796. 32 The first theatre was a little earlier. 33 Two newspapers are now printed at … the east of the Orchard, but was pulled down in 1910 for street improvements. At the time of its demolition it was … higher than that of the nave, and both are covered with green slates, while those of the aisles are lean-to roofs …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… charities SEFTON SEFTON INCE BLUNDELL LITHERLAND NETHERTON LITTLE CROSBY ORRELL AND FORD LUNT GREAT CROSBY AINTREE … i, Sefton, with Netherton and Lunt; ii, Ince Blundell, Little Crosby; iii, Thornton, Great Crosby; iv, Down … 100, now said to be represented by a field in Holmer Green, let at 10 s. a year. The parish council has charge of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… land and 2,646 acres of woodland. 4 Selborne, the Main Street, looking North The village of Selborne is on the west … it to the prior and convent for a market-place. It is a green sloping oblong, one end formed by the high road and the … by an old wooden seat; up in the left-hand corner is the little wicket-gate leading into the churchyard, and lower on …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… this after the raid of the Scots in 1322 was reduced to little more than a third, viz. 23 6 s. 8 d. 30 This valuation … in 15478 was 5 10 s. 8 d., derived from lands in Great and Little Eccleston, Esprick and Staynall Mill. 81 The other … in Goosnargh for the benefit of the poor of Great and Little Sowerby, Inskip, Tarnacre and Goosnargh, in equal …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Standish you come to the Quakers . . . then crossing a little arched bridge of stone you pass over Coppull Moor, and … the Hoghtons of the Tower, and going on towards Charnock Green, 5 miles from Wigan, you arrive at Charnock … Robert Ugnall, Hugh Adlington, Hugh Woodward, Alexander Street and Lawrence Bimson. For the sequestered two-thirds of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and now serves as the farmer's dwellinghouse. Very little but the walls of the building are now standing, nearly … The church, though named in Domesday Book, seems a little later to have become a chapel of ease to Melling; … Arthur Senior Roberts, M.A. 85 W. H. Foster res. F. W. Joy Little is known of the clergy of this remote district. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… son of John de Hornby and Margaret his wife. There is little to relate of its history. It falls out of sight till …