A History of Lancashire
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Fishwick Henry. A History of Lancashire
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. PRE–ROMAN LANCASHIRE
CHAPTER III. THE ROMANS AS CONQUERORS AND RULERS
CHAPTER IV. ROMAN REMAINS
CHAPTER V. THE SAXON AND THE DANE
CHAPTER VI. THE NORMANS AND THE PLANTAGENETS (A.D. 1066–1485)
CHAPTER VII. LANCASHIRE IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS (A.D. 1485–1603)
CHAPTER VIII. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER IX. RELIGION
CHAPTER X. THE REBELLIONS
CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XII. THE DAWN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XIII. MISCELLANY
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Lancashire, on its south and south–east, is bounded by the county of Chester, the division for about 50 miles, i. e., from Stockport to Liverpool, being the river Mersey; on the west is the Irish Sea; on the east, up to Graygarth Fell, in the parish of Tunstall, lies Yorkshire; from thence to the waters of Morecambe Bay the boundary is formed by Yorkshire and Westmorland; across the bay is a portion of Lonsdale hundred (north of the Sands), which is almost surrounded by the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, the extreme eastern boundary being formed by a portion of Windermere Lake. Lancashire from north–west to south–east measures 86 miles, and it is 45 miles across at its widest part; it contains 1,219,221 acres. It has within it 69 parishes (exclusive of 9 extra–parochial districts), 446 townships, and 16 Parliamentary cities and boroughs, which return 35 members, the county divisions adding 23 to this number.
The great divisions of the county are the six hundreds of Lonsdale (north and south of the Sands), Amounderness, Leyland, Blackburn, Salford, and West Derby.
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At the angle pointing north, in 1888, a gateway was discovered.25 It was 14 feet wide, the end of the wall at each side being carefully rounded.
The construction of the vallum was at the same time exposed, and showed that it was formed of boulder stones put together with cement. It lies 6 feet below the present surface, and is about 5 feet wide.
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