Geography (344 pages found in this category)


Atherton Hall

Country house and estate in Atherton in Lancashire, England built between 1723 and 1742, demolished in 1824.

Atherton Urban District

Atherton Urban District was from 1894 to 1974 a local government district in Lancashire, England.

Ballingdon Hall

16th-century Grade II* listed manor house in Sudbury, Suffolk, which came to national attention when it was towed from its original site in 1972.

Bank Hall Colliery

Coal mine near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Burnley, Lancashire., the town's largest and deepest pit.

Barnfield Mills

Former complex of six cotton spinning mills, known locally as Caleb Wright's, on either side of Union Street in Tyldesley.

Barrow Bridge

Model village started by John and Robert Lord, who built a cotton mill next to the Dean Brook in the north-west outskirts of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.

Barton Aqueduct

Aqueduct, designed by James Brindley and opened on 17 July 1761, which carried the Bridgewater Canal over the River Irwell at Barton-upon-Irwell, in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

Barton Swing Aqueduct

Aqueduct in Barton upon Irwell, Greater Manchester, England carrying the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894.

Battle of Howe Bridge

Riot that took place on 28 January 1881 against the background of an acrimonious strike by 50,000 miners from pits on the Lancashire coalfield, characterised by mobs of miners picketing working pits.

Battle of Mons Badonicus

Battle reportedly fought between the Celtic Britons and invading Anglo-Saxons, possibly in 516.