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3 days ago · A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 Covers Lonsdale hundred, the northernmost part of the historic county. To the north it includes the parishes of Cartmel, Hawkshead and Ulverston (now in Cumbria).
- The Parish of Whittington
'The parish of Whittington', in A History of the County of...
- Ellel
ELLEL. Ellhale, Dom. Bk.; Elhal, 1202; Elhale, 1208; Ellale,...
- The Parish of Heysham
The rectory has 50 Lancashire acres of glebe, but this can...
- Forton
FORTON. Fortune, Dom. Bk.; For ton, 1212. This township,...
- Cockersand Abbey
COCKERSAND ABBEY. Extra-parochial. Kokersand, 1212;...
- The Parish of Colton
The silver communion plate consists of a chalice and cover...
- The Parish of Bolton-le-Sands
Church. The church of ST.MICHAEL or HOLY TRINITY stands at...
- The Parish of Cockerham
To the ancient fifteenth Cockerham paid £1 3s. 9d., Ellel £1...
- The Parish of Whittington
2 days ago · Lancashire began the 20th century as an industrial hub centred on traditional cotton mills and textiles. But after the First World War, there was a decline of the textile industry, partly due to ...
3 days ago · Ordnance Survey maps of Lancashire from the nineteenth century. Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 Epoch 1. This free content was digitised by scanning. All rights reserved.
1 day ago · Lancaster, Lancashire. Lancaster (/ ˈlæŋkəstər /, / ˈlænkæs -/) [2] is a city [3] in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district. The city is on the River Lune, directly inland from Morecambe Bay. Lancaster is the county town, [4] although Lancashire County Council has ...
5 days ago · Up to a century ago it 'retained much of its old wild character; there was no right of way through it; chains were kept across the roads leading in from Chipping and opposite the fords over the River Loud.
4 days ago · Most of the city, including the historic core, is in the historic county of Lancashire, but it includes an area south of the River Mersey in the historic county of Cheshire. Manchester is the nucleus of the largest metropolitan area in the north of England, and it remains an important regional city, but it has lost the extraordinary vitality ...
4 days ago · This was the origin of the cotton industry that was to transform southern Lancashire after 1770. As the trade grew, Manchester expanded and “improvements” were added, including the fine square and church of St. Ann (1712).
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