The New Lancashire Gazetteer: Or, Topographical Dictionary, Containing an Accurate Description of the Several Hundreds, Boroughs, Market Towns, Parishes, Townships, and Hamlets, in the County Palatine of Lancaster ...H. Teesdale and Company, 1830 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... called the black abbey . Accrington Chase is sometimes considered as a member of Rossendale forest , but more anciently as a portion of the demesnes of Clitheroe . AIG of Urswick , hundred of Lonsdale , north of the sands , 5 miles ...
... called the black abbey . Accrington Chase is sometimes considered as a member of Rossendale forest , but more anciently as a portion of the demesnes of Clitheroe . AIG of Urswick , hundred of Lonsdale , north of the sands , 5 miles ...
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... called Low Scales , was visible in the sands ; and the villages of Crim- bleton and Rose are known only from record . At the west extremity of the township are some remains of an artificial mount called the Moat or Moot Hill , which was ...
... called Low Scales , was visible in the sands ; and the villages of Crim- bleton and Rose are known only from record . At the west extremity of the township are some remains of an artificial mount called the Moat or Moot Hill , which was ...
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... called Anderness , Ad- mundernesse , Agmonderness , and Aun- derness : from ness , a promontory , says Dr. Whitaker , and Aimund , one of the ancient modes in which the name of Edmund was spelled by the Saxons . Towards the east the ...
... called Anderness , Ad- mundernesse , Agmonderness , and Aun- derness : from ness , a promontory , says Dr. Whitaker , and Aimund , one of the ancient modes in which the name of Edmund was spelled by the Saxons . Towards the east the ...
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... called the Old Hall , supposed to have been erected about the year 1483 , formerly the manor house of the Assheton family , but now the resi- dence of John Wood , esq . Almost ad- joining this venerable relique is a build- ing called ...
... called the Old Hall , supposed to have been erected about the year 1483 , formerly the manor house of the Assheton family , but now the resi- dence of John Wood , esq . Almost ad- joining this venerable relique is a build- ing called ...
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... called Barton Mere . BARTON - UPON - IRWELL , a township in the parish of Eccles , hundred of Salford , 5 miles W. from Manchester . Inhabit- ants 7977. Near Barton is the celebrated aqueduct which conveys the duke of Bridgewater's ...
... called Barton Mere . BARTON - UPON - IRWELL , a township in the parish of Eccles , hundred of Salford , 5 miles W. from Manchester . Inhabit- ants 7977. Near Barton is the celebrated aqueduct which conveys the duke of Bridgewater's ...
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ancient BANK Broughton Canal castle chapel of ease chapelry Chorley church Clitheroe cotton dale Dalton dred of Lonsdale dred of Salford Entire population erected formerly Garstang Hall hamlet Haslingden Hawkshead HILL hundred of Amounderness hundred of Blackburn hundred of Leyland hundred of Lonsdale hundred of Salford hundred of West Inhabitants Irwell Kirkby Ireleth Lancashire Leigh Liverpool Manchester mansion Mersey miles N. E. miles N. N. E. Moss N. W. from Manchester Ormskirk parish and township parish of Blackburn parish of Bolton parish of Bury parish of Cartmel parish of Dean parish of Eccles parish of Garstang parish of Kirkby parish of Kirkham parish of Lancaster parish of Manchester parish of Prescot parish of Rochdale parish of Whalley Patron Poulton Prescot Preston Ribble Ribchester river sands seat of John ship and parish tower township township and parish Ulverstone village Warrington West Derby Wigan
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الصفحة 123 - She would not leave the place ; she wandered about, forlorn and amazed. She would not quit her horse, and get into the cart with them. They determined, after much time wasted, to turn back, and give themselves up to the guidance of their horses. The old woman was soon washed off and perished. The poor girls clung close to their cart, and the horse, sometimes wading, and sometimes swimming, brought them back to land alive, but senseless with terror and distress, and unable for many days to give any...
الصفحة 115 - At seven they all came in to breakfast, which consisted of one large dish of waterporridge, made of oat-meal, water and a little salt, boiled thick, and poured into a dish. At the side was a pan or basin of milk, and the master and apprentices, each with a wooden spoon in his hand, without loss of time, dipped into the same dish, and thence into the milk pan; and as soon as it was finished they all returned to their work.
الصفحة 106 - ... whereby not only the better sort of men are employed but also the very children by their own labour can maintain themselves. There are besides all kinds of foreign merchandise bought and returned by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum of many thousands of pounds weekly.
الصفحة 114 - ... their fortunes as well by economy as by moderate gains. The third is that, when luxury began to appear, and trade was pushed by sending out riders for orders to every market town in the kingdom. The fourth is the period in which expense and luxury had made a great progress, and was supported by a trade extended by means of riders and factor» through every part of Europe.
الصفحة 105 - Neither doth their industry rest here, for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and at home...
الصفحة 106 - The trade is not inferior to that of many cities in the kingdom, chiefly consisting in woollen friezes, fustians, sackcloths, mingled stuffs, caps, inkles, tapes, points, &c., whereby not only the better sort of men are employed, but also the very children by their own labour can maintain themselves...
الصفحة 123 - They staid a little while for him but in vain. They called aloud, but no reply ; at last the young women pressed their mother to think where they were, and go on. She would not leave the place ; she wandered about, forlorn and amazed.
الصفحة 76 - James, Earl of Derby, Lord of Man and the Isles, grandson of James, Earl of Derby, and of Charlotte, daughter of Claude, Duke de la Tremouille, whose husband, James, was beheaded at Bolton, 15 Octob.
الصفحة 115 - When the Manchester trade began to extend, the chapmen used to keep gangs of pack-horses and accompany them to the principal towns with goods in packs, which they opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The pack-horses brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the journey and sold to the makers of worsted yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
الصفحة 25 - Have found out one to fit th' occasion. Most apt for what I have to do, As counsellor, and justice too. And truly so, no doubt, he was, A lawyer fit for such a case.