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Smithills Hall

Smithills Hall in Bolton, Greater Manchester, is one of the oldest manor houses in the northwest of England, dating in parts from the 15th century.

Socage

Form of tenure under English feudal property law.

Society

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Society for Psychical Research

Registered charity founded in 1882 to conduct scientific investigations into psychic and paranormal phenomena.

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Society founded in London in 1826 to publish cheap and accessible works on scientific and artistic subjects.

Solution cave

Redirected to Karst cave.

Sooterkin

Imaginary kind of afterbirth in the form of an "evil-looking little animal" especially attributed to Dutch women.

Sortes Biblicae

Method of divination used by some Christians to foretell the future by interpreting randomly chosen texts from the Bible.

South Lancashire Tramways

System of electric trams authorised by the South Lancashire Tramways Act of 1900. The South Lancashire Tramways Company built more than 62 miles (100 km) of track to serve the towns in south Lancashire between St Helens, Swinton, Westhoughton and Hulton Lane where it met the Bolton Corporation system.

South Wheal Frances

Copper and tin mine to the south of Camborne in Cornwall, named after the mineral lord, Lady Frances Basset