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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.
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 ...
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).
Baines School in Poulton-le-Fylde, Baines Endowed Primary School in Thornton and Baines Endowed Primary School in Marton are still in operation today. On 9 January 2017, the tricentenary of Baines's death, children from the Marton school buried a time capsule on the approximate location of the first Baines school. References
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 ...
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 ...
In 1769, Yates completed a survey for the Map of the Environs of Liverpool. [5] Yates' survey of Lancashire (1786), [6] at one inch to the mile, [7] was "one of the eleven English county maps which received national recognition in the period 1759–1809".
Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 1, 1868; Baines, Thomas; Baines, Edward (1871), Yorkshire, past and present: a history and a description of the three ridings of the great county of York, from the earliest ages to the year 1870; with an account of its manufactures, commerce, and civil and mechanical engineering, William Mackenzie