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Leo H. Grindon. Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes
Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LANCASHIRE
I. LEADING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COUNTY
II. LIVERPOOL
III. THE COTTON DISTRICT AND THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON
IV. MANCHESTER
V. MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS
VI. PECULIARITIES OF CHARACTER, DIALECT, AND PASTIMES
VII. THE INLAND SCENERY SOUTH OF LANCASTER
VIII. THE SEASHORE AND THE LAKE DISTRICT
IX. THE ANCIENT CASTLES AND MONASTIC BUILDINGS
X. THE OLD CHURCHES AND THE OLD HALLS
XI. THE OLD HALLS (continued)
XII. THE NATURAL HISTORY AND THE FOSSILS
THE BIRDS[46]
THE FOSSILS[47]
Footnote
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Leo H. Grindon
Published by Good Press, 2021
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THE FOSSILS [47]
The scenery presented in many portions of the county vies with the choicest to be found anywhere south of the Tweed. The artist turns with reluctance from the banks of the Lune and the Duddon. The largest and loveliest of the English lakes, supreme Windermere, belongs essentially to Lancashire: peaceful Coniston and lucid Esthwaite are entirely within the borders, and close by rise some of the loftiest of the English mountains. The top of "Coniston Old Man"—alt maen, or "the high rock"—is 2577 feet above the sea. The part which contains the lakes and mountains is detached, and properly belongs to the Lake District, emphatically so called, being reached from the south only by passing over the lowermost portion of Westmoreland, though accessible by a perilous way, when the tide is out, across the Morecambe sands. Still it is Lancashire, a circumstance often surprising to those who, very naturally, associate the idea of the "Lakes" with the homes of Southey and Wordsworth, with Ambleside, and Helvellyn, and Lodore.
