THE FEE OF MAKERFIELD. Part II.

By William Beaumont, Est/.(published and read 20th March, 1878.) On a former occasion, when I had the honour of reading before this Society u paper on the above title, I intimated that l might on some other occasion, if I had time and you had patience, be led to continue the subject. In mv former paper I traced the Barons of Newton through the successive lines of the Bannstres and Langton’s, and ended it when, the latter family becoming extinct by the death of the last Sir Thomas Langton, Newton…

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Burtonwood: Historical Snippets by Year

I’ve been trying to put together a year by year snippet history of Burtonwood historical notes, it’s a work in progress, it has errors, and spelling mistakes, these will most likely get edits, names and place names will be edited and checked , I am sure it will have more year snippets added to it and many updates as more documents are read and transcribed by the people helping me 1028 King Canute in his excursion against the Scots boldly made the Norwood road and took measures of common ford…

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