Aberdeen
Acton by
Nantwich is an Ancient parish which
commenced keeping parish registers from the year 1653. It is a small
village and
civil parish lying immediately west of
the town of
Nantwich.
Alport
is a small, quiet and attractive Derbyshire and Peak
District village, situated just off the main road (A6) connecting
Matlock and Bakewell.
Named after the
portway road which ran through the settlement, the Saxon inhabitants of
Alport, added the prefix`al` (old). The stone houses with pretty gardens
date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. This was lead mining country
in the 18th and 19th centuries and there is still much evidence of this
in the area. The river Lathkill
cascades down through the village in a series of weirs and meets the
river Bradford coming from Youlgrave. Here in a near idyllic setting
among the trees below a clear pool a weir that John Bying, passing this
way in June 1790, noted as a `pretty cascade`. Beside the weir is an old
corn mill. A mill was recorded here at Alport in 1159, and it may have
been the same one mentioned in the Doonsday Book, 70 years earlier, as
standing at Youlgrave.
Alsop-en-le-Dale is a tiny Derbyshire village situated 5 miles north
of Ashbourne It is only a mile from Parwich and about a mile from
Dovedale.
The village consists of a church, a hall, a few
farms and cottages. The main Ashbourne to Buxton road
once passed through Alsop, but was diverted to save coaches the climb
down into the valley and then back up again.
Alstonefield
or
Alstonfield
is a village, a township, and a parish on the NE border of
Staffordshire, near to Derbyshire. The village stands on the river
Dove. It is situated in the Peak District
National Park, is an
attractive, closely knit village, situated on a limestone plateau 900
feet above sea level. Alstonefield has many stone buildings dating from
the 18th century or earlier. It was a thriving market centre
in the middle ages having been granted its own market charter in 1308
but lost much of its status with the growth of towns like Ashbourne.
Alstonefield continued with annual cattle sales right up until the
beginning of the 20th century. Many of the footpaths and lanes in the
area date back to those prosperous times.
Audlem
Audley is a
rural
village
approximately four miles north west of the town of
Newcastle-under-Lyme
in
Staffordshire,
England.The first mention of Audley is in the
Domesday Book of
1086, when it was called Aldidelege, when the lands were held by a Saxon
called
Gamel. At this
time, the area was very sparsely populated, and because of its distance
from the major towns of
Stafford and
Chester there was
little outside contact
Baguley
is a small locality in
Wythenshawe, and an
electoral ward of
the city of
Manchester in
North West England.
Baguley is a derivation of the old English words BACGA - meaning badger,
and LEAH - meaning wood (Bacga originally meant 'a bag-shaped animal').
So Baguley means 'badger's wood'.
Bakewell
is an ancient town
in the centre of the
Peak
District
National Park, founded in Saxon times. It is
the home of the famous Bakewell Pudding. The Domesday Book entry calls
the town 'Badequella', meaning Bath-well. The town was built on the Wye
at a spot where it was fordable and in 924 Edward the Elder ordered a
fortified borough to be built here. Bakewell has one of the oldest
markets in the area, dating from at least 1300. The first recorded fair
was held in 1254. Markets are still held every Monday and there is a
thriving livestock market.
Ballidon
is a tiny White
Peak
hamlet in an isolated location, somewhat overshadowed by its' limestone
quarry. There are just a few farms and scattered cottages in the hamlet,
which is all that remains of a larger medieval settlement.
Bethnal Green
is a district in East London. It developed from a farming
hamlet in the ancient parish of Stepney.
Barthomley
was an ancient parish within Cheshire. It contained five townships:
Alsager, Balterley, Barthomley itself, Crewe, and Haslington. Of these,
Balterley township and (now) civil parish was and is entirely in the
neighbouring county of Staffordshire, and Crewe was later renamed Crewe
Green to avoid confusion with the neighbouring unparished borough and
railway town. All five townships were made separate civil parishes in
1866.
Baslow
Biddulph
Blackfriars
is a
small district in the City of London. It is located on
the bank of the River Thames, east of The Temple and southwest of St.
Paul’s Cathedral. From 1221 to 1538 the Blackfriars Monastery was
located on the riverside. It was a wealthy and influential institution,
and its halls were often used for government council meetings. The
so-called “Black Parliament” met there a few years before the start of
the Wars of the Roses. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the
16th century, the site held the Blackfriars Playhouse. The area became a
fashionable residential district in the early 17th century.
Bolton le Sands
is now a large village
and civil parish of the City of Lancaster in Lancashire with a
population of over 4,000 residents. Referred to as Bodeltone in the
Domesday book, the village was known as Bolton until the arrival of the
railways, when the name was changed to Bolton-le-Sands to differentiate
from similarly named towns on the same line.The oldest church in the
village, founded prior to 1094, is the Church of England Holy Trinity
church, originally dedicated to St Michael.
Borthwick
Bradbourne
in Derbyshire is an ancient village situated 4 miles north east of
Ashbourne and stands high on a ridge between the valleys of Bradbourne
Brook and Havenhill Dale, enjoying some fine views. It was recorded in
Domesday as Bradeburne, meaning broad stream, and having a church and a
priest.
At domesday it belonged to Henry de Ferres. A corn mill once stood in
Bradbourne, built into the hillside in 1726. It lies crumbling and
forgotten on a sharp bend on the B5056. Today Bradbourne is known for
it's ancient church, Elizabethan Hall and the old Parsonage.
Brassington
in the Peak District National Park, is a largish, attractive if somewhat
greyish, limestone village perched on a hillside, some 800 feet above sea
level and known to the locals as `Brass`n`. It was once a thriving
centre at the heart of lead mining country, but things are much quieter
now. Brassington has many cottages that date back to the 17th and 18th
centuries, with the `TUDOR HOUSE`, built in 1615, being one of the
oldest.
Bunbury
is an Ancient Parish in Cheshire and includes Alpraham,
Beeston, Calveley, Haughton, Wardle, Ridley, Spurstow, Tiverton, and
Peckforton. From the eighth century a church has been on the site,
initially a wooden Anglo-Saxon church. By 1135 a stone Norman church was
present. The church was rebuilt in the decorated style in 1320. In
1385–86 Sir Hugh Calveley endowed it as a collegiate church.
Burton upon Trent
Butterton is
situated in Staffordshire and part of the
Peak
District
National Park. It is an isolated but very
picturesque village, situated high up on moorland close to the manifold
valley. Butterton, as with nearby Grindon, lay on the old packhorse
route carrying ore from the copper mines at Ecton.
Calveley, Cheshire
Calverley,
Yorkshire is first mentioned in the great Domesday
Survey compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086. The name is derived
from two Old English words meaning clearing with calves. Old English was
the language spoken by the incoming Anglo-Saxons in the 7th century AD,
which suggests that Calverley might have first emerged as a settlement
at that time. The ley element, meaning clearing, is common to many
settlements along the Aire valley such as Bramley, Armley, and Rodley,
which suggests that the Anglo-Saxons were moving in to utilize land not
already occupied by the native Britons. In the Aire valley at least they
were settlers who must have worked hard to clear their land and
establish farmsteads.
Caton is a
township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict in Lancaster district,
Lancashire. The township lies on the river Lune and the Midland railway,
a few miles NE of Lancaster; is in Lancaster parish; includes Littledale
hamlet. A rising ground commands a noble view, much praised by the poet
Gray, of the valley of the Lune, backed by Ingleborough mountain. Coal
and slate are found; and the cotton manufacture is carried on.
Chapel en le Frith
was founded in 1225 by foresters in
the Royal Forest of the Peak, who were given permission by the Earl of
Derby to build a chapel in the forest (a chapel-en-le-frith).
The high concentration of inns is
evidence of Chapel-en-le-Frith’s historical importance as a stopping
place on routes across the Pennines. Salt carriers from Cheshire, cattle
drovers and stagecoach passengers all broke their journey for
refreshment in the town. Chapel’s role in the history of transport goes
well beyond its importance as a staging post. A tramway was constructed
in 1797 to carry stones from the quarries of Dove Holes to the terminus
of the Peak Forest Canal at Bugsworth. The trucks were horse drawn for
much of the journey, but a revolutionary gravitational railway was used
on the steepest section, whose path can be traced on the eastern
boundary of the town.
Cheddleton
lies 5km south of Leek, where the A520 road crosses the beautiful
Churnet valley, which is deep and steep-sided here.There has been a
settlement here since at least Saxon times, since the river was an
obvious source of both water and water power. One of the flint mills
(which are now a museum) was originally a corn mill and dates from the
14th century. Cheddleton began to expand with the construction of the
Caldon Canal, in 1779. This was originally built to bring limestone from
the quarry at Cauldon and linked Stoke on Trent (where it joined the
Trent and Mersey canal) with Froghall, lower down the Churnet Valley.
The canal brought improved communications and hence industry (such as
flint-milling) to the area. The construction of the North Staffordshire
railway in 1849 brought further industry to the area, which has remained
to this day.
Chesterfield
Chorlton
cum Hardy
By the 9th century, there was an Anglo-Saxon settlement here. Later in
the Middle Ages, improved drainage methods led to population growth.
Chorlton was a Lancashire village on the southwest border with
Cheshire. It was incorporated into Manchester in 1904.
Church Minshull,
Cheshire
is recorded in the
Domesday Book
as Maneshale. According to records from November
1824, numerous trades and crafts were carried out in the village:
blacksmith, wheelwright, joiners, cordwainer, gamekeeper, bricklayer,
weaver, tailor, carrier, victualler, laundry woman and many domestic
servants. There was also a shopkeeper, butcher, two school mistresses
and a school master, farmers and farm workers, paupers and spinsters.The
current village church,
St Bartholomew's Church
was built on the site of an earlier place of worship between 1702 and
1704. A village school was built in the churchyard
in 1785.
Clerkenwell
derives from The Clerk’s Well where Parish clerks would
gather to perform biblical mystery plays. The site of the well was
formally within St Mary’s Nunnery of the Benedictine order. It was
founded in 1100 and remained till 1539 when Henry VIII disbanded the
monasteries and convents. The area has connections to the Knights
Templar, historic revolutionary figures, legendary literary pickpockets,
a notable musical coal-man and faked ghost appearances.
Coppenhall,
now in Crewe
is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Copehale. From 1086
to 1524 it was held under the barony of Stafford and Lord Stafford was
lord of the manor until at least 1884. By the twelfth century, it was
known as Coppenhale (the meadowland of Coppa) and by the fifteenth
century, the village was known as Coppenhall, its present day form. In
1558, 120 people lived here, including the hamlet of Butterhill. By
1666, there were 14 households chargeable for hearth tax and 5 too poor
to be taxed. In 1811, there were 96 inhabitants.
Crewe
originally started out as the village
of Coppenhall, but it was when the Grand Junction Railway
Company opened their engineering works there in 1843 that the town began
to develop. The town was already a major railway junction
linking together Manchester,
Liverpool and Birmingham.
The influx of workers meant that Crewe
changed from village to town within the space of a few years. Other
heavy industries followed.
Cripplegate
was already in place when the
London Wall
was built as it was the northern gate of a Roman fort which was built in
AD 120. The northern and western walls formed part of the new wall,
although these defences were completely rebuilt in early medieval times.
Like a number of its sister gates, it was used as a prison for part of
its life, being leased for accommodation at other times. The gate gave
access to a substantial medieval suburb and to the village of
Islington.
Extra defensive works on the northern site outside the gate gave rise to
the name 'barbican' (or outer fortification of the City), which was then
taken as the name for the post-War
rebuilding of the area. It originally only led into the fort and became
a gate into the City when the fort was demolished.
Cromford
in Derbyshire, is a place many people simply pass through on their way
to the Matlocks, Bakewell and other northerly places, but Cromford is
very definitely worth taking a closer look at, because it is steeped in
industrial history and often called the cradle of the industrial
revolution. Before 1770, Cromford was little more than a cluster of
cottages around an old packhorse bridge and a chapel where travellers
gave thanks for a safe journey. All that was soon to change with the
arrival of one man, Richard Arkwright. He began to build the worlds
first successful water powered cotton spinning mill here in 1771 which
soon became so successful that he was able to build other mills
including Haarlem mill in nearby Wirksworth and Masson mill in Matlock
Bath. Others copied his ideas and soon water
powered cotton spinning mills began
to spring up in Europe and
America.
At first he used labour from the local farming and mining community but
as production increased he advertised and workers were brought in from
other areas. He especially asked for large families to come and join the
work force and a whole town was constructed to house them, rows of
cottages, a school, a chapel and a hotel. The pattern for later
industrial towns had emerged.
Dodleston
is a village in Cheshire bordering Flintshire near the city of
Chester.It included the villages of Higher Kinnerton and Lower
Kinnerton.
Duddingston
Ealing, now
part of London was historically a rural village in the county of
Middlesex and formed an ancient parish.
Eaton near
Nantwich, Cheshire
Edinburgh
Ellastone
is
a village situated close to the River Dove on the border between
Derbyshire and Staffordshire. It
dates back to Anglo Saxon times and features in the Domesday Book where
it is listed as Edelachestone or Elachestone. The local church of St. Peter's
dates back to the sixteenth century with the year 1586
displayed on the tower. Ellastone has literary connections.
George Elliot's father lived here in his youth and she use it as
settings for some scenes in Adam Bede. Ellastone was Hayslope in
the county
of Loamshire. Her grandfather's grave is in
the churchyard.
Eyam is a
village in Derbyshire, England. The village is best known for being the
"plague village" that chose to isolate itself when the plague was
discovered there in August 1665, rather than let the infection spread.
Failsworth
is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of
Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on undulating ground, on
the course of the Rochdale Canal and north bank of the River Medlock.
Farnham in
Surrey
began life as a Saxon village.
Little is known about it but from the 7th century Farnham belonged to
the Bishop of Winchester. Originally it was called Fern Hamm, the well
watered meadow (hamm) by the ferns. By the beginning of the 13th century
the little village of Farnham had grown into a town. It was situated
where 2 important roads crossed, the road from Eastern England to the
Southwest and the road from London to Southampton. It was natural that
trading would take place at Farnham and a town would grew up. Farnham
probably grew into a town partly because of a castle that was built
there. It was built in the mid 12th century by the Bishop of Winchester
to be a convenient residence for him halfway between Winchester and
London. The garrison of the castle formed a market for the townspeople's
goods.
Gawsworth
Grayrigg is
a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Kendal district,
Westmoreland. The township lies adjacent to the Lancaster and Carlisle
railway, near the source of the river Mint, 5 miles NE of Kendal.
Great Longstone
Great Sampford
and Little Sampford are villages in Essex. The
villages stands on the river Pant and have a history comparable to most
Essex villages with references in the
1086 Domesday book
(then known as Sanforda). The origins of the Sampfords, meaning sandy
ford, are still awaiting discovery but it is known there was a Saxon
settlement about the river Pant, where the kingfisher is often seen.
Mentioned in Domesday the names were Sanford (Magna) and Sanforda
(Parva), when the population numbered between 275 to 325. Nine hundred
years later there are around 650 residents. The two churches are still
in use. St Michael the Archangel at Great Sampford dates from the 13th
century. St Michael's setting is idyllic, at the heart of the village,
above the river Pant, surrounded by a flint stone wall and bordered by
an avenue of lime trees. The view to the west is across miles of
undulating Essex cornland and woodland. St Mary the Virgin at Little
Sampford is enchanting. Set in a fold of the land its churchyard must be
one of the most picturesque. Local artists often sketch there and
villagers and visitors alike seem to savour its special peacefulness
with the view across the river valley. The present building is believed
to date from early in the 1300s, although there been a church on the
site since well before the Norman Conquest.
Grindon
is a peaceful little moorland hill village, standing at over 1000feet
above sea level in the Peak District National Park, and over looking the
beautiful manifold valley. It lay on the old packhorse route carrying
ore from the copper mine at
Ecton. Grindon has an interesting looking pub called the
Cavalier, previously called the Shoulder of Mutton and originally the
village smithy. Over 400 years old, the building was possibly renamed in
honour of Bonnie Prince Charles who is reputed to have stayed in the
village.
Guiseley
Haslington
Hawarden is
rich in history. It contains two castles; one built again by King Edward
1, the other the home of William Gladstone, four times British Prime
Minister.
Hempstead
Holborn
Hope
(Derbyshire) lies where the
Edale Valley meets the
Hope Valley and lies at the junction of
the River Noe and Peakshole water. It was the base of the Eyre family,
who became major landowners in this area of the Peak and played a
significant role in the history, with various branches of the family
creating renowned historical places which can still be seen and visited
today, such as
Peveril Castle. The original Eyre was
said to have come with William the Conqueror and lost a leg in the
Battle of Hastings and his family crest has an armoured leg above the
shield.
Hope (Flintshire)
Ipstones is
an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1720
from chapelry in Leek, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.
Ipswich
Kendal is an
old market town situated in one of the most beautiful parts of the
country – the English Lake District. For many years Kendal was one of
the most important wool towns in the country, even more important than
West Yorkshire. The town was also a stopping off point for cattle drives
from Scotland as well as a very important market.
Kingsley
Kinnerton
(Higher)
Kinnerton is a residential village in Flintshire, Wales,
very close to the Wales-England border. Its sister village, Lower
Kinnerton is on the other side of the border in Cheshire, England.
Lasswade
Leeds
Leek
is the principal town of the Staffordshire Moorlands and is locally
known as 'The Queen of the Moorlands'. It stands on a hill in a large
bend in the River Churnet. The town is an ancient market town and was a
centre of silk weaving but this industry has now completely disappeared.
The old town contains many fine buildings.
Madeley
Marton
Middlewich
is a small town, a township, and a subdistrict in Northwich district,
and a parish partly also in Nantwich district, Cheshire. The town stands
on the Grand Trunk canal, at the junction of the Middlewich branch, on
the river Dane, at the influx of the Wheelock or Croco, and on the
Sandbach, Middlewich, and Northwich branch of the Northwestern railway,
2 miles E of Winsford station on the main line of the Northwestern, and
21 E of Chester; took its name from being a middle one of the "wiches
''or salt towns of Cheshire; and is built on a bed of Roman remains.
Mold is
the County town of Flintshire, Wales, on the River Alyn.
Newcastle under Lyme
Newton Heath
takes its name from old English meaning
"the new
town on the heath". The heath in question stretched originally from
Miles Platting to Failsworth, and is bordered by brooks and rivers on
all four sides - the River Medlock, Moston Brook, Newton Brook and
Shooters Brook.
By the beginning of the 19th century, the Rochdale Canal had been constructed and this
brought industrialisation to the district, and the former farming
settlement was thus hastened into the Industrial Revolution and creeping
urbanisation. The 19th century saw the local population increase nearly
20 fold.
The railways arrived in the 1840s and the Lancashire
& Yorkshire Railway (the LYR) laid two main lines across the district
which made a significant change to the look of the district.
Northenden
has a long history, having been mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086,
and was at that time a small farming community with a manor house and
woodland. A weir existed on the river in the 14th century (now at
Mill Lane) and a mill was set up for the
grinding of corn. The mill belonged to the Tatton family of Wythenshawe
Hall, and it was demolished in the 1960s. Its name means "northern dale
or valley", no doubt because of its immediate proximity to the river
Mersey. This river once marked the boundary between
Lancashire and Cheshire.
Over is a small
town, a township, and a sub-district in Northwich district, and a parish
partly also in Nantwich district, Cheshire. It is now incorporated into
Winsford.
Parwich, Derbyshire
is not on any of the main routes through the area and as a result does
not suffer from the effects of traffic, as do other villages. Its neat
limestone houses of various shapes and sizes stand in picture postcard
fashion along winding lanes and narrow ginnels. In the summer, the
cottages with their attractive gardens, window boxes and hanging baskets
provide a vivid splash of colour against the green background of the
steeply rising hillside. The church of St Peter
was rebuilt in 1873 on a much older site possibly going back 800 years.
It retains a Norman doorway and chancel arch and contains a fine carved
tympanum over the west doorway, showing the lamb of god with a cross, a
stag trampling on a serpent, a wolf, and other strange animals.
The Royston Grange Archaeology Trail runs nearby with the remains of a
Roman field system, Roman manor house and late medieval buildings.
Rawden
Rocester
Rochdale
Rusholme,
unlike other place names in Manchester with the suffix
holme is not a true water
meadow. Its name derives from ryscum
the dative plural of the
Old English
rysc, a "rush"
meaning at the rushes. The name was recorded as Russum in 1235, Ryssham
in 1316 and Rysholme in 1551. Records of the name Rusholme do not appear
until the mid-13th century when "Russum" is mentioned; at this time it
is known that a house existed at Platt which was replaced by a larger
house of black and white construction which was the home of the Platts
until the mid-18th century when the present classical building replaced
it.
Saddleworth
Saint Andrews
Sandbach is
a market town and civil parish of Cheshire.
Sedbergh in
the Yorkshire Dales
is mentioned in the Doomsday Book and there was a Norman
motte and bailey castle situated at Castlehaw at the eastern end of the
town.The town was granted a market charter by Henry III in 1251. The
1761 Turnpike Act led to improvements in the Kirkby Stephen to Lancaster
and the Askrigg to Kendal roads, both of which passed through Sedbergh
and made the town more accessible helping the growth of the knitting
industry. The improved transport links led to the growth of several
mills in the area using water power from the plentiful streams and
rivers to process locally produced wool and cotton brought up from
Manchester.
Shavington
lies 2½ miles south of Crewe. Shavington appears in the Domesday survey
as Santune
Snelston
in
Derbyshire
is a small, attractive 19th century model village situated 3 miles south
west of Ashbourne. Snelston nestles in a valley bounded on it's eastern
side by Darley Moor through which the A515 passes, and on its
western side by the river Dove, beside which a railway use to run. A
small brook, which joins the river Dove, flows through the centre of the
village and flooding has occurred in times of torrential rain.
Stepney is in
East London and of the townships of Mile End New Town, Mile End Old
Town, and Ratcliff; prior to 1669 it also included Limehouse, Shadwell,
St George in the East, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Bow, and Poplar.
Stoke on Trent
Stoney Middleton
was created in 1743 from a chapelry, in the parish of
Hathersage.
South Leith
Tarporley
Tideswell
Tissington
in Derbyshire, is a well managed estate village which has an ideal blend
of duckpond, trees, cottages, church, tearooms and an old hall. To many,
Tissington seems to be the model village. Well dressing takes place in
Tissington. Tissington Hall is a large and very fine Jacobean mansion
and home for theFitzherbert family for over 400 years. The house was
built in 1609 for Francis Fitzherbert possibly incorporating parts of an
earlier hall. The property had become a seat of the Fitzherberts around
1465. During the Civil War Tissington was garrisoned by Colonel
FitzHerbert in support of the King.
Tower Hamlets
Tutbury
is a large village of about 3,000 residents
surrounded by the
agricultural countryside of Staffordshire and Derbyshire. It is 5 miles
north of Burton upon Trent and 20 miles
south of the Peak District.
Tutbury was a hill fort in the Iron Age, about 2,500 years ago. The
village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as
Toteberie.
Walsall
Warmingham
Warton
is a village and
civil parish
in the
City of Lancaster
in north
Lancashire
in the north-west of
England,
close to the boundary with
Cumbria,
with a population of around 2,000. It is a village steeped in history;
its earliest recording as a settlement is made in
Domesday Book.
By the start of the 13th Century, Warton had flourished into an
important staging post on the route north to
Carlisle,
Northumbria
and
Scotland.
So much so, it was granted a charter for a Wednesday market, gallows and
ordeal pit in 1200 during the reign of
King John.
The grant of borough status by the town's lord, the baron of Kendal,
later in the thirteenth century confirmed the economic importance of
Warton at that period. Warton is the birthplace of the medieval
ancestors of
George Washington, the first popularly
elected
President of the United States.
Lawrence Washington, seven generations
prior to George Washington and his family, arrived in Warton around
1300, and
Robert Washington, Lawrence's
great-grandson, is rumoured to have help build the clock tower of St
Oswald's Church. The
Washington family coat of arms, three
mullets and two bars, can be found in the church and is said to have
inspired the design of the
flag of the United States. The flag of
the United States of America is displayed on the village church flag
pole every July Fourth. The flag was donated to the village after US
soldiers had visited the village during WWII and having returned to the
USA contacted their state senator about the birthplace of the Washington
family. The donated flag was one of which had flown above the Capitol
Building in Washington DC.
Waterfall is a small Staffordshire village, set on the
moors, named after the way that the River Hemp, disappears underground
through crevices in the ground.
Whitegate
is a small village in
Cheshire,
England, located near the towns of
Northwich and
Winsford.
Wigtown
is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire
in the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.
Wirksworth is a small market town which
nestles in the hills to the southern end of the
Pennines. The hills to th west are composed of limestone and
those to the east are sandstone known locally as millstone grit. These
have provided the industry for the town for many years, initially that
of lead mining in the limestone and finally the quarrying of both the
gritstone and the limestone. The town was once the most important lead
mining centre in the country and had been since Roman times. In the
Kings Field region just south of Wirksworth, anyone was allowed to
search for lead, subject to the laws and customs governed by mining.
Lead mining peaked in the 17th and 18th centuries before its steady
decline in the 19th century, and many of the Wirksworth's impressive
houses and other buildings were built during these prosperous times.
Withington,
South Manchester. Post-conquest
records,
together with the environment of the area and related names elsewhere,
support the origin of the place-name as Old English "Within-ton" - a
settlement ("ton/tun") associated with willows ("withen/within").
In the early
13th Century, Withington is recorded as an independent manor under the
lordship of William de Withington. By the turn of the 14th Century, it
had become a submanor of the manor of Manchester which was in the
possession of the de Haversage family, then the de Longfords, followed
by the Moseley family. The last lords of the manor of Withington were
the Egertons of Tatton.
Withington, Cheshire
Wybunbury,
Cheshire (pronounced Winds-bury in local accent) is a village about four
miles from the railway town of
Crewe.
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