PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

SUBSCRIBERS.

BOOKSELLERS.

CHAPTER I. A RAILWAY RAMBLE THE ROMAN CITY ON THE RIBBLE A DAY-DREAM AT RIBCHESTER.

CHAPTER II. MARPLE HALL THE BRADSHAWS COLONEL HENRY BRADSHAW THE STORY OF THE REGICIDE.

CHAPTER III. OVER SANDS BY THE CARTMEL SHORE WRAYSHOLME TOWER THE LEGEND OF THE LAST WOLF.

CHAPTER IV. AN AFTERNOON AT GAWSWORTH THE FIGHTING

CHAPTER V. THE COLLEGE AND THE "WIZARD WARDEN" OF MANCHESTER.

CHAPTER VI. BEESTON CASTLE.

CHAPTER VII. WHALLEY AND ITS ABBEY MITTON CHURCH AND ITS

CHAPTER VIII. ADLINGTON AND ITS EARLIER LORDS THE LEGHS THE

CHAPTER IX. THE BYROMS KERSALL CELL JOHN BYROM THE LAUREATE OF THE JACOBITES THE FATAL '45.

CHAPTER X. HALL-I'-TH'-WOOD THE STORY OF SAMUEL CROMPTON, THE INVENTOR OF THE SPINNING MULE.

INDEX.

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Lancashire and Cheshire.

A WAYFARER’S NOTES IN THE PALATINE COUNTIES,
HISTORICAL, LEGENDARY, GENEALOGICAL,
AND DESCRIPTIVE.

BY
JAMES CROSTON, F.S.A.
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain;
Member of the Architectural,
ArchÆological and Historic Society of Chester; Member of the
Council of the Record Society.
Author of “On Foot through the Peak,” “A History of Samlesbury,”
“Historical Memorials of the Church in Prestbury,”
“Old Manchester and its Worthies,”
etc., etc.

JOHN HEYWOOD,
Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester;
and 11, Paternoster Buildings,
LONDON.
1882.

JOHN HEYWOOD, PRINTER, HULME HALL ROAD,
MANCHESTER.