Search results

Create the page "Yorkshire Water Way" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

• Southport
  ...ossens, believed to be the northeast end of ''Otergimele'' blown sand gave way to the River Ribble Estuary where fishermen could thrive and farmers could ...Mere and other marshland continued until the 19th century, since which the water has been pumped away. This left behind a legacy of fine agricultural soil a
  17 KB (2,657 words) - 22:54, 27 January 2016
• Teignmouth
  ...ection of £11,000 for the aid of the town. Churches from as far afield as Yorkshire contributed, and the collections enabled the further development of the por |title=Templer Way leaflet
  26 KB (4,164 words) - 14:53, 27 January 2016
• Ashton-under-Lyne
  ...on mills were established in the town. On his tour of [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]] in 1849, the publisher Angus Reach said: ...old habits, when the power-loom was introduced, to be able to learn a new way of making their bread.<ref>Powell (1986), p.&nbsp;35.</ref>|Angus Reach|''M
  21 KB (3,225 words) - 21:50, 18 September 2019
• Chilterns
  ...m [[Goring-on-Thames]] in [[Oxfordshire]], through [[Buckinghamshire]], by way of the [[Dunstable Downs]] and [[Deacon Hill]] in [[Bedfordshire]], to near ...Natural England]</ref> The latter is the starting point of the [[Icknield Way]] Path and [[the Ridgeway]] long distance path, which follows the line of t
  16 KB (2,440 words) - 10:00, 18 July 2014
• River Cam
  ...Chesterton]], with Stourbridge Common on the south bank stretching all the way to [[Fen Ditton]]. A little beyond Fen Ditton is Bait's Bite Lock; the end ...e mill pond is extant and the foundations of the mill can be seen when the water is low.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trumpingtonlocalhistorygroup.org/subj
  19 KB (3,131 words) - 22:31, 23 January 2017
• Manchester Ship Canal
  ...he railway companies' charges as excessive. A ship canal was proposed as a way of giving ocean-going vessels direct access to Manchester. The region was s ...eld back the tide in the estuary, there was not always sufficient depth of water for a fully laden boat.<ref>Owen, 1983, p 7</ref> The Bridgewater Canal's R
  36 KB (5,463 words) - 22:27, 9 September 2016
• Bacup
  |picture=Yorkshire Street, Bacup.jpg |picture caption=Yorkshire Street, Bacup
  13 KB (2,007 words) - 19:53, 10 June 2016
• Leeds and Liverpool Canal
  ...dustrial cargoes and linking the cities of [[Leeds]] in the West Riding of Yorkshire and [[Liverpool]] in Lancashire ([http://wikishire.co.uk/map/#/show=Leeds_a ...crosses the country from [[Liverpool]] in [[Lancashire]] to [[Leeds]] in [[Yorkshire]]. It has two main side-branches, the Leigh Branch and the Rufford Branch.
  20 KB (3,116 words) - 08:22, 19 September 2019
• List of King George's Fields
  | [[Huntingdon]] || Clayton's Way <small>PE29 1UT</small> || {{map|}} || align="right"| 3.21 | [[Virginia Water]] || <small>GU25 4</small> || {{map|}} || align="right"| 14.00
  65 KB (7,418 words) - 19:45, 9 October 2022
• Cullompton
  ...eside it. The leat runs from Head Weir, north of Cullompton, and takes its water from the Spratford Stream. It flows past three former watermills (Upper, Mi ...In 1067 William the Conqueror passed through the villa of Colitona on his way to besiege Exeter where Gytha was living.<ref name="grubb_conquest">{{Citat
  19 KB (3,058 words) - 18:06, 30 January 2013
• List of Queen Elizabeth II Fields
  | [[Luton]] || Lewsey Park || Pastures Way <small>LU4 0PF</small> || {{map|TL044235}} || 67.76 | [[Melbourn]] || London Way BMX site || London Way <small>SG8 6DJ</small> || {{map|}} || 2.7
  86 KB (10,361 words) - 19:15, 13 January 2023
• Glossop
  ...r]], and near Derbyshire's borders with [[Cheshire]], [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]]. Glossop's transport links to Manchester make it a popular town for comm ...A57 road known as the [[Snake Pass]]. The Snake Pass crosses the [[Pennine Way]] near Doctor's Gate Culvert (1,680 feet above sea level) before descending
  30 KB (4,759 words) - 14:21, 27 January 2016
• Lake District
  [[File:Keswick Panorama - Oct 2009.jpg|right|thumb|800px|Keswick and Derwent Water, from Walla Crag]] ...nation. The region is famous for its lakes, forests and fells and for the way in which these were romantically portrayed in the 19th century in the poetr
  45 KB (6,982 words) - 17:48, 19 June 2017
• River Eden, Cumberland and Westmorland
  ...[[Westmorland]], by the watershed on the high ground between [[High Seat, Yorkshire|High Seat]] and [[Hugh Seat]]. Two other great rivers arise in the same pea ...r a while forms the boundary between the counties of [[Westmorland]] and [[Yorkshire|York]] before abruptly turning north as it swallows the waters of the Ais G
  7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:22, 29 October 2019
• Cape Wrath
  ...st |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/yorkshire-diver-first-to-see-wreck-for-nearly-90-years-1-2545421 |accessdate= 2007-08 ...te No. 2 - geograph.org.uk - 887154.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Military post on way to ranges]]
  27 KB (4,277 words) - 09:36, 20 January 2018
• High Force
  |county 2=Yorkshire [[File:High Force from the Pennine Way - geograph.org.uk - 1726862.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A view including the seco
  3 KB (535 words) - 00:08, 27 March 2013
• Firbank Fell
  ...ill in [[Westmorland]] between the towns of [[Kendal]] and [[Sedbergh]] ([[Yorkshire]]). ...ers), preached. Fox described what happened there on 13 June 1652 in this way:
  1 KB (221 words) - 16:26, 7 June 2017
• Bradford-on-Avon
  ...the Civil War, between Royalists who seized control of the bridge on their way to the Battle of Lansdowne.<ref>{{cite book |title=The civil war in the sou ...rly Christian symbol), hence the local saying "under the fish and over the water".
  12 KB (2,001 words) - 22:08, 18 September 2019
• Accrington
  ...d stopped the machinery by knocking out the boiler plugs. This allowed the water and steam to escape shutting down the mill machinery.<ref>{{Cite book|last= ...olded in 1965. The club was reformed three years later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the Nationwide Conference in 2003
  18 KB (2,827 words) - 13:25, 17 October 2014
• Basildon Park
  ...by John Carr in the Palladian style at a time when Palladianism was giving way to the newly fashionable neoclassicism. Thus, the interiors are in a neocla Basildon Park was built for Sir Francis Sykes. Born in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]] in 1732, the son of a yeoman farmer, he left his native country to make h
  37 KB (6,086 words) - 17:20, 30 January 2016