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  • As well as the Six Towns, there are numerous suburbs including Abbey Hulton, Adderley Green, Baddeley Green, Bentilee, Birches Head, Blurton, Bucknall, ...e]</ref> 'Stoke' derives from the Old English ''stoc'', a word which means little more than a 'place', but which may have raised any of several connotations,
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  • Little is known of Anglo-Saxon Salford, which period gave the town its name. Edwa ...what is now the site of Victoria Bridge, which although short-lived, "did little to improve relations between the two towns". A century later, in 1745, Salf
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  • ...ude [[Wingates]] (famous for the Wingates Brass Band), White Horse, [[Over Hulton]], Four Gates (or Fourgates), [[Chequerbent]] (which was all but destroyed ...rist acts in Britain. Twelve people were arrested on the orders of William Hulton, the High Sheriff of Lancashire.<ref name=spartacusluddites>[http://www.spa
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  • ...the three-man committee recommended the abolition of the court which had "little but its age to justify its continuance", while the majority called for amen ...], [[Entwistle, Lancashire|Entwistle]], [[Harwood, Lancashire|Harwood]], [[Little Lever]], [[Longworth, Lancashire|Longworth]], [[Lostock, Lancashire|Lostock
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  • ...n Tom Wintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school (which Hulton sponsored) at the park in May/June 1940, teaching the theory and practice o
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  • ...An Act to formally abandon it was sought in 1798, and although opposed by Hulton, it was obtained. In the same year, the Canal Company built warehouses at S
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  • ...r of the firm James Roscoe & Sons, the owner of Peel Hall Colliery, Little Hulton, and New Lester Colliery, Tyldesley, [[Lancashire]], and the Valuation Roll
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  • ...Berwick but Lythwood Hall fell into disrepair under the squireship of the Hulton-Harrop family in the 1890s. It was later split into multi-ownership units.< ...standing to the east, the latter now mostly a major sandstone quarry with little of the hill itself now remaining after several hundred years of constant qu
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  • ...unty Council though sadly met with lukewarm interest, and really there was little encouragement from anyone. Leek Station was also then considered with a pos ...the village of [[Endon]] and the suburbs of Stockton Brook, Milton, Abbey Hulton and Fenton Manor to the railway network.
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  • ...covered a wider area than at present, spreading into Farnworth and Little Hulton.<ref>{{citation |editor1-last=Farrer |editor1-first=William |editor2-last=B ...d south of High Street, close to Ellesmere Colliery was partly in [[Little Hulton]]. It was built 1878 by the Bridgewater Trustees as a central works depot p
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  • ...th Staffordshire was recorded as early as the 13th century by the monks at Hulton Abbey<ref>{{cite book |first= |last= |title=Coal in the western area |locat
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  • In the Middle Ages the manor was held by the Hultons of Hulton Park.<ref name=tde>{{citation |last=Lewis |first=Samuel|title=Pendleton|url
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  • ...passes through the northern part of the area near [[Walkden]] and [[Little Hulton]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Pratt|1977|p=13.}}</ref> In 1947 a hoard of 550&nbsp;Roman ...age as its family name. On 23 June 1311 a substantial part of the Manor of Hulton was granted to the Worsleys. The family held both manors until the late 14t
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  • ...d all work on the unfinished Beat Bank Branch Canal. They informed William Hulton, the owner of the coal mines at Denton, that they could not afford to compl ...andon the unfinished canal. Its progress through Parliament was opposed by Hulton, who declined an initial offer of the unfinished canal, but he was unsucces
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  • ...the manor as tenants. Later the manor was acquired by the Hultons of Over Hulton. In 1666 there were 91 hearths in Farnworth liable to pay tax. The commons ...on Cross Street.<ref>[http://farnworthlittletheatre.weebly.com/ Farnworth Little Theatre]</ref>
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  • ...hough there has been a house on the site for over 750&nbsp;years. David de Hulton is recorded as the owner of the original hall, in 1251.{{sfnp|Brazendale|20
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  • Today there is little evidence of past industrial activity though there has been a marked increas ...re, Lord of the Manor in 1288 and the Standish, Catterall, Stanley, Rigby, Hulton, Dicconson and Hesketh families – the last being the last Lord of the Man
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  • ...s, as in 1250–1251 part of the area came into the possession of David de Hulton.<ref>{{Harvnb|Langton|1991|pp=14–15}}</ref> The Hultons united what in t
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  • ...ndy. The priory and its rights was sold in 1396 to the Cistercian Abbot of Hulton in [[Staffordshire]].<ref name=Cox/>
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  • ...]] dividing the green. In 1870 a colliery line to [[Bolton]] via [[Little Hulton]] was opened making Roe Green a junction.
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