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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  LITTLE CROSBY LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CROSBY MB (Local Government District)

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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BALLYHEIGUE, or BALLYHEIGH		Crosbie, who is resident; the farms are large and are held on old leases immediately from the head landlord. The lands under tillage are rendered fertile by the abundance of sea manure which is procured upon the coast: several of the low boggy tracts are defended only by sand hills from the irruption of the sea. From its exposed situation, being open to the Atlantic on the north, south, and west, timber attains little	Lewis:Ireland
  CARLISLE		CARLISLE , a city and a district in Cumberland; and a diocese in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire The city stands on	Imperial
  CHESTER		Little Leigh, Lostock, Lower Peover, Lower Whitley, Stretton, Tabley, Witton, Wilderspool, Alvanley, Arley, Kingsley, Norley, Lachford, Crosstown, Toft, Lymm-with-Warburton, Bollington, High Legh, High Leigh, Marthall, Over Tabley, Aston-by-Sutton, Daresbury, Halton, Runcorn-Trinity, Thelwall, and Weston-Point; and the donative of Over Peover. The deanery of Macclesfield contains the rectories of Alderley, Cheadle, Gawsworth, Mobberley, Northenden, Stockport, Taxall, and Wilmslow; the vicarages of Mottram-in-Longdendale and Prestbury; and the p. curacies of Birtles, Handforth, Newton-St. Mary, Godley-cum-Newton-Green, Stayleybridge, Tintwistle, Woodhead, Bollington, Bosley, Capesthorne, Chelford, Henbury, Hurdsfield, Macclesfield-Christchurch, Macclesfield-St. Paul, Macclesfield	Imperial
  CROSBY		CROSBY , a sub-district in West Derby district, Lancashire; comprising Great Crosby chapelry, Little Crosby township, and two other townships	Imperial
  CROSBY-GARRETT, or Gerard		CROSBY-GARRETT , or Gerard, a township and a parish in East Ward district, Westmoreland. The township lies on the river Eden, under Crosby Fell, adjacent to the South Durham and Lancashire Union railway, 3 miles W by N of Kirkby-Stephen; and has a post office under Penrith. Acres, 3, 008. Pop., 245. Houses, 45. The parish includes also the township of Little	Imperial
  Crosby, Little		Crosby, Little , coast township, Sefton par., SW. Lancashire, adjacent to Great Crosby, 1811 ac. and 1126 foreshore, pop. 553.	Bartholomew
  CROSBY (Little)		CROSBY (Little) , a township in Sephton parish, Lancashire; on the coast, 7½ miles NNW of Liverpool. Acres, 6, 241; of which	Imperial
  DERBY (West)		Crosby, containing the chapelry of Great Crosby, and the townships of Little Crosby, Ince-Blundell, and Thornton, in Sephton parish	Imperial
  Edinburgh		little to pay the expense of his funeral, he ordered it to be distributed among his poor neighbours, adding that his townsfolk might bury or not bury his bones as it seemed good to them. These were interred next day in the Greyfriars' Churchyard at the public charges. Milne Square, at No. 173 High Street, immediately W of North Bridge, was built in 1689 by the architect Robert Milne; it is entered, from the street, by an archway, and was long an aristocratic quarter; two flats of it, now on the line of Cockburn Street, were occupied by Charles Erskine	Groome
  GLENDALOUGH		Crosby, and Sir Peter Carew, all distinguished officers, fell in this rash adventure; and Lord Grey, who had awaited the result on an eminence in the vicinity, returned with the remainder of his troops to Dublin. On the suppression of the disturbances of 1798, Dwyer and his followers took refuge among the fastnesses of Glendalough, and remained in perfect security in the mountains till they procured an amnesty from the government. The ancient city is now only a heap of scattered ruins, imparting a venerable and solitary grandeur to that part of the valley in which they are situated	Lewis:Ireland
  LANCASHIRE		LANCASHIRE , a maritime and northern county; bounded on the N, by Cumberland and Westmoreland; on the E, by Yorkshire; on	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL		LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England	Imperial
  LONDON		little nearer the street, and famous for two savage figures which beat the quarters on two bells, and famous also for the preaching in it of Richard Baxter and William Romaine to crowded audiences; was built in 1831-3 by Shaw; is in the pointed style, and internally octagonal; has, over the side doorway, a statue of Queen Elizabeth, brought from old Ludgate,-and, on the corbels at the sides of the principal entrance, carved heads of Tyndale and Dr. Donne; has also a stained window by Williment; and is surmounted by a Louvre tower, 130 feet high, imitated from	Imperial
  Monkton		Crosby. Monkton proper lies in the middle, Prestwick in the S, and Crosby in the N; and the first got its name from its belonging to the monks of Paisley Abbey, the second from its being the 'habitation of a priest,' and the third from its having 'a dwelling at a cross.' The united parish of Monkton and Prestwick is bounded NW by Dundonald, NE by Symington, E by Craigie, SE by Tarbolton and St Quivox, SW by Newton-upon-Ayr, and W by the Firth of Clyde. Its utmost length, from	Groome
  Musgrave, Little		Musgrave, Little , township (ry. sta. Musgrave), Crosby-Garrett par., Westmorland, 1 mile SW. of Great Musgrave, 1208 ac., pop. 71.	Bartholomew
  MUSGRAVE (Little)		Little) , a township in Crosby-Garret parish, Westmoreland; ½ a mile W of Great Musgrave. Acres, 1, 216. Pop., 61. Houses	Imperial
  SEPHTON, or Sefton		Little Crosby, and the chapelry of Great Crosby; and extends to the sea. Acres, 21, 168; of which 8, 675 are water	Imperial
  SHAP		little more than the great tower of the church; was the burial-place of its founder, of the Veteriponts, of the Cliffords, and of others; was given at the dissolution, to Lord Wharton; and passed, by sale, to an ancestor of the Earl of Lonsdale. A mineral spring, called Shapspa, is within Crosby	Imperial

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