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  • ...strategically sited above a vital ford at Longport, part of the major pack horse track out of the [[Peak District]] and [[Staffordshire Moorlands]] to the r
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  • ...ds. It is reputedly the haunt of pixies, a headless horseman, a mysterious pack of 'spectral hounds', and a large black dog. During the Great Thunderstorm *Rattlebrook railway – remains of horse-worked railway track to peat works near Great Links Tor
    25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:57, 9 April 2019
  • ...where the intrusion of modernity permits. The village has is a fine Pack Horse Bridge, which is scheduled as an Ancient Monument, over the River Tame on t
    5 KB (813 words) - 08:45, 11 January 2018
  • During the 19th Century, The Pond at Godstone Green was used as a horse-pond with a sloping bank down which the wagoners drove their horses. ...stal road with the present village not being built until Tudor times. The Pack House featured in the [[Gracie Fields]] film 'Sing as you dance along', wit
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  • ...brunchband.co.uk/ jazz band]. There is also a Women's Institute, a Brownie Pack, and a Golden Years Club. [[File:HorseandJockeyPub.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Horse and Jockey Pub]]
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  • ...e pack-Horses" of Ynys Prydain. ''Ysgwyddfrith'' ("Dappled-shoulder") "the horse of Llemenig ap Mawan".
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  • ...ed Lion, The George & Dragon, The White Swan, The King and Queen, The Pack Horse, The Marquis of Granby, which was renamed in 2010 and is now called The Vil ...e local countryside. The area is very popular with walkers, cyclists and horse riders. The frequent train service from London Marylebone makes it an ide
    8 KB (1,394 words) - 13:20, 27 January 2016
  • ...ate=4 October 2011}}</ref> In Victorian times jet was brought to Whitby by pack pony to be made into decorative items. It was at the peak of its popularity ...title=The Black Horse Inn: Black Horse People |first=|last=|work=the-black-horse.com |year=2009 |accessdate=30 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://
    37 KB (5,686 words) - 20:50, 28 January 2016
  • The village's name may have been taken from the 15th century pack-horse bridge which remains the only vehicular route from one side of the village
    2 KB (369 words) - 16:03, 25 March 2012
  • The village is found on a former pack-horse route between [[Hungerford]] and [[Oxford]] (by way of [[Abingdon]]). In th
    3 KB (407 words) - 16:56, 28 May 2012
  • In Stokesley, the river is crossed by a 17th Century Pack Horse Bridge, which was once the only crossing into the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=
    4 KB (701 words) - 10:39, 11 November 2017
  • ...and Laneshaw Bridge and the hamlet of [[Wycoller]] with its historic pack horse bridge and clam bridge said to date back to the Iron Age. Wycoller Hall is
    9 KB (1,466 words) - 16:36, 7 August 2015
  • ...y was first granted a charter to hold fairs in 1223 by Henry III. The Pack Horse Bridge, crossing the River Leven from the riverside walk, dates from the 17
    4 KB (620 words) - 17:01, 29 January 2016
  • ...ey farm was prospering and counted "seven cows, two bulls, five sheep, one horse, two pigs and two dogs".<ref name="Turner"/> The 1881 census record for Fla ...ww.cardiff.gov.uk/objview.asp?Object_ID=11528& Flat Holm Island Teachers' Pack]
    36 KB (5,661 words) - 07:54, 15 December 2015
  • ...in 1838 and is adjacent to the town centre, on Byram Street, near the Pack Horse Centre. ...e Yard, renamed Pack Horse Walk. Pack horses carried merchandise over pack-horse routes across the [[Pennines]] before turnpike roads and railways improved
    11 KB (1,693 words) - 16:52, 29 January 2016
  • ...rthenware and stoneware. The clay was taken overland from Winsford by pack horse to manufacturers in the Potteries, a distance of about 30 miles. Locally pr
    19 KB (2,991 words) - 11:15, 19 September 2019
  • ...ardale in April 1327. Another King, Charles II, is said to have ridden his horse up the internal staircase of the house in the C17th and it still has an imp
    7 KB (1,162 words) - 11:27, 3 March 2019
  • ...ped a thriving wool industry during the Middle Ages. Reybridge, and a pack horse ford, remained the only crossing points of the [[River Avon, Somerset|River
    4 KB (669 words) - 12:36, 14 October 2014
  • ...horse-road over Walna Scar", and other publications call it "the old pack-horse road". It is certainly older than this: it appears on a map of 1745 and i
    3 KB (475 words) - 20:25, 20 June 2013
  • ...e is the Grade-II-listed Pack Horse Inn.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1061925 |desc=Pack Horse Inn, Main Street|accessdate=27 June 2011}}</ref> Nearby to the west is Newa
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