Altham, Lancashire, a village and a civil parish in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England
He lived in the town today called Elswick, known then as "'Edelesuuic," literally "the farm of a man named Æthelsige."
Bolton Sailing Club (Bolton SC or BSC) is an inland sailing club located close to the village of Belmont in Lancashire to the north of Bolton, Greater Manchester in the West Pennine Moors.
The exterior shots of the early series were filmed in and around East Lancashire, predominantly in the village of Downham, Lancashire, with some at Helmshore.
Born in Salford, Lancashire, Richards graduated with a degree in geology in 1938 and then qualified as a housing manager, in which profession she worked until 1973.
The church is first mentioned in 1205 but the vast extent of the ancient parish with its eleven townships (Adlington, Anderton, Charnock Richard, Coppull, Duxbury, Heath Charnock, Langtree, Shevington, Standish, Welch Whittle and Worthington) points to a very early foundation.
City of Preston, Lancashire, a city and non-metropolitan district in Lancashire, England
The second-half of the 20th century saw the area becoming home to some light industry (including the Vulcan motor works), but apart from some small industrial units the area is now primarily a commuter suburb for Southport, Preston and Ormskirk.
Edmund Robinson was an English ten year-old boy from Wheatley Lane, Lancashire, who sparked a witch-hunt.
Joan Mowbray, who married firstly Sir Thomas Grey (1359 – 26 November or 3 December 1400) of Heaton near Norham, Northumberland, son of the chronicler Sir Thomas Grey, and secondly Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland in Tunstall, Lancashire.
Entwistle, Lancashire, a village in Turton, England or its local railway station
Fred Dewhurst (born Fulwood, Lancashire, 16 December 1863 — died 21 April 1895) was a professional footballer, who played as an inside forward for Preston North End in the late 19th century.
Broadbent was born in Ashby, Victoria, the son of George Adam Broadbent, (who migrated from Lancashire), and his wife Elizabeth, née Ruffhead.
She was born Esther Georgina Harwood, the elder daughter of George Harwood, a former clergyman, Liberal Member of Parliament for his home town of Bolton, Lancashire, master cotton spinner, and an author and barrister.
Jo Appleby (born 7 April 1978) is an English soprano from Thornton, Lancashire.
John B. Parkinson (12 December 1861 - 9 December 1935) was born in the small village of Scorton, in Lancashire, England in 1861.
The locations concerned are also largely based on those known to Delaney, for example: the town of Priestown is based loosely on Preston, where he was born; Lancaster becomes Caster; Blackpool is now the Black Pool; and Chipping is Chipenden.
Joseph Lucas Horrocks (1803-1865) was born in Anderton, Lancashire, near Bolton, on 18 November 1803, the first son of William Horrocks, a corn merchant, and Jane Smith.
William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.
The club is based in the old Halton railway station and trains on the River Lune, north of Lancaster.
The city was named after a railroad official believed to have come from Lancashire County in England.
This was encapsulated by scandals about the care provided to the elderly and mentally ill at Ely Hospital in Cardiff, Farleigh Hospital in Bristol and Whittingham Hospital near Preston.
It links to the River Calder Greenway and the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to form a circular route and also has a branch to Gawthorpe Hall a National Trust property in Padiham.
Issues in the election included the proposed redevelopment of Nelson town centre, plans for an A56 bypass and the proposed demolition of houses in Nelson West.
Two noticeable features of the dialect are the vowel sound ow (as in low) which is used where standard English would use ol as in cowd = cold, 'towd" = told, etc. and the use of thee and they in place of you (both singular and plural), also heard in parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
This expanse of rural villages and farming communities includes the Broughton and Goosnargh.
He was present at the siege of Manchester in September 1642, and on 20 April 1643 was defeated by Captain Ashton at Whalley.
SELNEC is an acronym for "South East Lancashire North East Cheshire".
It spans the River Wyre, connecting Singleton, on the southern side of the river, to Hambleton, on its northern side (known locally as "Over Wyre"), carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of Shard Road (the A588).
He went to Mill Hill School and then Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge before returning to east Lancashire where he became a director of companies involved in the weaving and matchmaking industries in Colne and Rawtenstall.
He moved to another home, Leck Hall at Leck, Lancashire, on his estates, which was more convenient to his disability, leaving Gawthorpe Hall to his aunt, Rachel, who lived on at Gawthorpe Hall until her death in 1967.
"Wallsuches Bleach Works" brought employment to Horwich and workers came from Horwich, Blackrod, Adlington and Rivington.
He also contributed stone for completing the tower of Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, and he helped to found the free-school at Middleton, Lancashire.
William Brooks (1762–1846) was a supplier of cotton to spinners around Whalley and Blackburn.
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The 'Invincibles' from Lancashire also ended Villa's bid to win every single home game, with a 2–0 win at Perry Barr in Villa's last home fixture.
Lancashire went unbeaten until July, their fifteenth game, when Surrey overcame them at Aigburth, but Yorkshire were behind on the table with three losses before their match with Yorkshire at Bramall Lane.
Staff and recovering patients from the King's Lancashire Medical Convalescent Hospital (KLMCH) and staff from the Royal Army Medical Corps Depot (RAMC), both based at Squires Gate, provided players throughout the season.
The funeral of one, Private Paul Sutcliffe, an Englishman, was held in Barrowford, Lancashire - the only UDR funeral to be held outside Northern Ireland.
He was married twice, first to Joan Brunton in 1916 and in 1934 he married Dorothy Haworth of Samlesbury, Lancashire.
Cadell's great-uncle Vernon Royle represented Lancashire, Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class cricket.
It passed down through Parker family from father to son via Thomas, Robert (1720–1758), Thomas (1754–1819), a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) and Deputy Lieutenant {D.L.} of Lancashire, to Thomas Parker (died 1832), an Army captain, J.P. and D.L. who also bought Browsholme Hall from his cousin.
She was born to Thomas and Ellen Langton in the Yorkshire Dales, but within a few months, they moved to Lancashire, where she was raised in a mansion named Blythe Hall, near Ormskirk.
Bondax gained prominence primarily as a result of BBC Radio, initially through BBC Introducing Lancashire before receiving BBC Radio 1 airtime from the a range of DJs including Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac.
The son of Reverend Harold Joseph Flowers and Mrs Marian Flowers, Brian Hilton Flowers was born in Blackburn, Lancashire; but he was educated in Swansea at the Bishop Gore School, where Mr Foukes encouraged his interest in physics.
Brockhall Village, Lancashire, England, home to the training ground of Blackburn Rovers FC
Carl Myerscough (pronounced Myers/co) (born 21 October 1979 in Hambleton, Lancashire) is an English athlete.
Castercliff is an Iron Age hillfort situated close to the towns of Nelson and Colne in Lancashire, Northern England.
The league is essentially based on Craven and so includes several teams from the main Craven centres such as Skipton, Settle, Cross Hills and Cononley, but its catchment extends into nearby districts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire with, for example, teams from Bradford, Colne, Ilkley, Keighley and Pendle also taking part.
He also hit up 105 against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford and remarkably was Lancashire's fourth-highest run-scorer - though with less than half the aggregates of Ernest Tyldesley, Hallows and Makepeace.
They have never achieved representation in the House of Commons, although they have had a number of local councillors in some inner-city areas of east London, and towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, such as Burnley and Keighley.
Born the son of a butcher in Scotforth, Lancashire the family nevertheless had domestic servants (his namesake grandfather having died the same year, leaving £18,700 – £1million in 2011 prices).
He married Mary Vigars LeMare, at Christ Church, Salford, Lancashire, on 4 April 1854; he was widowed seven years later when his wife died in London in early 1861.
Lancashire began his career as a journalist with the Oldham Evening Chronicle newspaper before joining Granada Television as a scriptwriter.
In 1898, Bardswell played only in a couple of first-class matches for MCC against the Universities, but at the start of the 1899 season he reappeared for Lancashire, playing as captain in the first six games of the season, but standing aside when Archie MacLaren resumed his cricket career in June.
He retained his place for the County Championship game against Lancashire that followed, in which he achieved his first stumping, accounting for Farokh Engineer off the bowling of Norman Gifford.
By the mid-nineteenth century the extended Philips family held properties and businesses throughout Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the family seat in Heybridge, Staffordshire, which Herbert inherited from his father Robert Needham Philips, M.P. for Bury.
Born in Burnley, Lancashire, Lam-Moores started playing handball aged 12 at Alder Grange High School in Rawtenstall after it had been introduced by coach Bill Baillie.
Hughie Flint (born 15 March 1941, Manchester, Lancashire), is an English drummer, best known for his stint in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, playing drums on the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton album, released in 1966, for his group McGuinness Flint in the early 70s and for his subsequent association with The Blues Band.
Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).
The 72 members of the class were built in the United Kingdom between 1928 and 1931, some of them by William Beardmore & Co in Glasgow, Scotland, and the rest by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England.
Born in Higher Booths, Swinshaw, Rossendale, Lancashire, John was the son of Henry Moore, Cotton Manufacturer and Mary Elizabeth Moore (née Margerison).
John O'Gaunt Rowing Club for the rowing club in Lancaster, Lancashire, England
His younger brother Ernest Tyldesley (1889 – 1962) was also a top-class batsman for Lancashire and played in 14 Tests for England.
They were probably printed in the mid 19th century; the poem was also printed in John Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (three editions: 1865, 1875 and 1882).
Born in Bootle, Lancashire, Chegwin's early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970).
After two years in the Lancashire League, the Leicestershire captain, Ray Illingworth called Higgs out of first-class cricket retirement because of Graham McKenzie's expected unavailability with the 1972 Australians.
He made his debut for the club on Boxing Day, in a 2–1 defeat at Lancashire neighbours Burnley, and went on to make a further four starts and one substitute appearance before the end of the 1972–73 campaign.
Queen Street Mill, Burnley, line shafting operating 600 Lancashire looms, driven by a 500 horsepower coal fired steam engine.
Majid regards the highlight of his cricketing career to date as beating Durham and Lancashire in the National League in 2003 and also participating in the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies.
Historically within Lancashire, it is about 2.5 miles to the north west of the town centre.
The station has the same name as the fictional station in the film Brief Encounter (1945) starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, although the scenes were filmed at Carnforth station in Lancashire.
In 1994 he accepted a life peerage and became Baron Blaker, of Blackpool in the County of Lancaster and of Lindfield in the county of West Sussex.
The village is included in The Meaning of Liff (defined as "a very large string bag made of thin strong cord into which feathers from freshly killed ducks and chickens were stuffed, from Preston in Lancashire".
Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet, of Middleton (11 Feb 1652–4 May 1716), MP for Liverpool 1677 and Lancashire 1694, 1695
Mather was born in Lowton, in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire, England, of a family which was in reduced circumstances but entitled to bear a coat-of-arms.
His son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (1844–1939), the eldest, became a well-known Liberal politician, sitting in parliament for Hastings from 1869 to 1880 and for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire from 1885 till 1902, when he was created Baron Shuttleworth.
The vessel was armed as a DEMS ship by soldiers of the Royal Lancashire Regiment and rescued soldiers from the Bray-Dunes area of the beach during Operation Dynamo.
Tom and his servant Coulter are from "Zumerzetshire," and inject into the play the kind of dialect humour typical of Brome's drama (Yorkshire dialect in The Northern Lass, Lancashire dialect in The Late Lancashire Witches).
His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.
Constantine's Lancashire League employer Nelson refused to release him for the match, but Francis, contracted to Radcliffe in the Bolton League, played.
Westleigh was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leigh in the hundred of West Derby in Lancashire.
Lancashire recorded an innings victory at Stanley Park in Blackpool against Worcestershire to go second in the Division Two table of the County Championship.
Yealand Redmayne, a village and civil parish in the English county of Lancashire