A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
KNOTT-LANES, a division of Ashton-under-Lyne parish, and conterminately a sub-district in Ashton-under-Lyne district, Lancashire; in the N of the parish, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Oldham. It contains the hamlets of Knott-Lanes, Woodpark, Lees, Crossbank, and Alt-Edge; the villages of Lees, Taunton, Waterloo, Bardsley, and Hey, and parts of Rhodes-Hill, Lanehead, Highknowles, Alt-Hill, Mill-Bottom, and Birks; and includes the chapelries of Bardsley, Leesfield, and Lees or Hey. Acres, 2, 417. Real property, £38, 578; of which £19, 000 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 6, 044; in 1861, 7, 312. Houses, 1, 448. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of collieries, and the establishment of cotton-mil1s and machine shops. The villages of Lees and Bardsley, the former now a small market town, may be regarded as the chief seats of trade and population. An oak, adjoining Bardsley House, is 161/3 feet in girth at 2 feet from the ground.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a division of Ashton-under-Lyne parish, and conterminately a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Ashton under Lyne RegD/PLU Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Knott Lanes |
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