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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Aire and Calder Company: part of the houses near the bridge form a suburb of Castleford. Large glass-works have …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Tuesday. The town contains about 600 inhabitants. The bridge here, like many others, was thrown down (or blown up …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in Saxon characters. There are also churches at Holme-Bridge, Crossland, Farnley-Tyas, Linthwaite, Meltham, … Lockwood, Marsden, Nether Thong, Upper Thong, Milns-Bridge, Armitage-Bridge, and Honley; and within the township of Almondbury are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Nent and South Tyne, over each of which is a neat stone bridge. The houses, which are irregularly and rather meanly … be distinctly traced; and on Hall hill, a little below the bridge over the Tyne, are the foundations of an ancient …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and Alstonefield crossed the Dove there by Viator's bridge, a two-arched stone structure probably of the early … 16th century and probably on the site of the Alstonefield bridge mentioned in the late 1420s. 93 It is named from one … 1658 when a woman was drowned there; 98 the present stone bridge is a 19th-century structure of one arch. It was the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… part of the Alstonefield- Longnor road over Archford bridge. 78 When the former was turnpiked in 1770 as a branch … road, 79 it was realigned to cross the river by a new bridge c. 300 yd. upstream at Hulme End. At first called Hayesgate bridge and also known as Hulme End bridge by 1778, the new …