Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire. / A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.

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A sequence of travel-historical sketches across the palatine counties of Lancashire and Cheshire that combines topographical description with antiquarian research, local genealogy, legend, and anecdote. Each chapter visits towns, halls, castles, abbeys, and industrial sites, recounting notable events, family associations, legal and technological episodes, and curious traditions while describing landscape and architectural features. The narrative aims to animate archival facts with popular storytelling and is supplemented by engravings and facsimiles to illustrate persons, monuments, and artifacts, offering readers a lively survey of regional history and folklore framed by physical setting and human memory.

NOOKS AND CORNERS
OF
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.

Of this work 600 copies have been printed, the whole of which were subscribed for before publication.

Nooks and Corners

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.