Month: July 2025

The Place Name “Law” near Walton-le-Dale (Lancashire) – Identified I recently came across some old maps of Lancashire when searching for an Ordnance Survey Six […]

Edward Baines was born in 1774 at Walton-le-Dale. He was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School (where Wordsworth was a contemporary), and then in the lower school of […]

The life and teachings of Joseph Livesey: comprising his autobiography Joseph Livesey’s Autobiography can be found in a few places on the world wide web. […]

MILLSTONE EXCAVATED MAY 2024DURING GROUND WORKS FOR THE NEW INTAKE CIRCA 1800’S, ONE OF 2 MILLSTONES WHICH WORKED IN PAIRS, THIS IS A “BED STONE”, […]

I was only having a quick web search to see how people generally phrased headings/titles for pages with old photos on them. I searched the […]

ON THE ROMAN REMAINS RECENTLY DISCOVERED ATWALTON-LE-DALE, NEAR PRESTON.By Charles Hardwick, Esq.(READ 3RD APRIL, 1856.) Notwithstanding the destructive influence of time, of agricultural improvement, and […]

Martha Thompson was the first Wesleyan Methodist in Preston. She met in a class at Cockshott House in 1759, which belonged to the society at Brimicroft. Cockshott House appears to […]

An eighteenth or nineteenth century Fire Insurance Plaque in Walton Green. The most well-known insurance company using a sun emblem was the Sun Fire Office, established in 1710 in […]

There have been a number of pages recently published tracing the history of the Public Houses in and around Walton le Dale. These are now […]