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Lancashire is a county of England, in the northwest of the country. The county did not exist in 1086, for the Domesday Book, and was apparently first created in 1182, [1] making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties. The historic county consisted of two separate parts.
James Baines (died 9 January 1717) was an English businessman. He was a woollendraper and philanthropist. Early life. Baines is believed to have been born in Goosnargh, Lancashire. He bought land in Lancashire on which to have built three schools.
Butterworth was the tenth and youngest child of the topographer James Butterworth, and was born at Pitses, near Oldham, in 1812. He followed in the footsteps of his father, whom he assisted in his later works, but was more given to statistical research. When Edward Baines undertook the preparation of a history of Lancashire, he found a useful ...
Lancashire (/ ˈlæŋkəʃər / LAN-kə-shər, /- ʃɪər / -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The county has an area of 3,079 square ...
Thomas Highs (1718–1803), of Leigh, Lancashire, was a reed-maker [ 1][ 2] and manufacturer of cotton carding and spinning engines in the 1780s, during the Industrial Revolution. He is known for claiming patents on a spinning jenny (invented by James Hargreaves ), a carding machine and the throstle [ 3] (a machine for the continuous twisting ...
Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. [1] It encompassed 12.1 square miles (31 km 2) of land in the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Haughs, Hollingworth, Kitcliffe, Lowhouse, Milnrow, Newhey, Ogden, Rakewood, Smithy ...
A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire: in a descriptive account of a family tour and excursions on horseback and on foot: with a new, copious, and correct itinerary (3rd ed.). Simpkin and Marshall. Baines, Edward (1835). History of the Cotton Manufacture. H. Fisher, R. Fisher, P. Jackson. Baines, Edward (1843).
The geography of Scotland is varied, from rural lowlands to unspoilt uplands, and from large cities to sparsely inhabited islands. Located in Northern Europe, Scotland comprises the northern part of the island of Great Britain as well as 790 surrounding islands encompassing the major archipelagos of the Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands and the Inner and Outer Hebrides. [3]