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A History of the County of Lancaster
… noticed that the cotton manufacture had reached it; the place did not seem so nourishing and increasing as … end of Churchgate, about 200 yards east of the old market-place, and is a handsome building in the style of the 14th … vicar of Bolton in 1360, but probably it was of some other place of that name; Kuerden MSS. iii, W i, no. 66. Henry de …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1901 there was a population of 2,037. The history of the place is destitute of any very noteworthy event. There is a … natural boundary, to the parish of Warton. The change took place before the interdict of 1208. 1 The northern insurgents … from natural or artificial causes. One violent change took place in 1677, as is narrated below, and recent alterations …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… by a family which derived a surname from the former place. Peter, 17 Thomas 18 and Sir Peter de Burnhull 19 … of Bryn. Azure a lion rampant ermine crowned or. The place does not seem to have had a resident lord since the end … of arms. The first shield has a strap-work border, and in place of crest a basket of fruit. Between the shields is a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the boundaries to accord with the changes that have taken place in the distribution of the population and the resulting … shouting and piping; 'a lamentable spectacle in the place of preaching ministry,' as the narrator remarks. 4 … in the same cause. A conflict is reported to have taken place close to the town of Bury on 14 August 1648. 6 The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… extending from Newby Bridge to Cark, and attaining in one place a height of 670 ft. above sea level. The hill country … has few striking incidents. The earliest record of the place by name occurs in 677, when the Northumbrian king … to the north side of the church. North from the market-place goes the road to Low Wood, and west a road goes through …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1618 the Crown granted away Chelsea ferry and its landing place, with 9 a. meadow called Thames mead and 47 a. in … rights to operate the ferry from Chelsea's 'Ferry Place', opposite Danvers Street, to Battersea only extended … where there were small stairs, and the original ferry place opposite Danvers Street and the White Hart, where there …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… parish lies beneath the 10 m. contour. 10 Derivation of Place-name Chelsea, originally Chelcehithe and variants, is apparently an early Anglo-Saxon place-name derived from the Old English words for chalk and a landing-place, the last part in common with nearby Lambeth, Stepney, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and fair at Hale and the ford across the Mersey at that place must have brought some traffic into the district, the … recesses in the wall, probably sepulchral, and in the same place are preserved the figures of a man in plate armour and … of six bells, dating from 1720. ADVOWSON The priest of the place is mentioned in Domesday Book as having half a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… may have been a chapel of Preston, the rector of which place claimed the presentation in 1240 18; but the right of … Chipping against Ralph the parson and other people of the place; De Banco R. 28, m. 64 d.; 36, m. 45 d. In 1281 Pope …