Leigh Town Hall stands facing the parish church across the Civic Square at its junction with Market Street in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It was designed for the Municipal Borough of Leigh by James Caldwell Prestwich, who had an architectural practice in the town.
Leigh-Ellenbrook guided busway
The Leigh-Ellenbrook guided busway is part of the Leigh-Salford-Manchester bus rapid transit scheme in Greater Manchester, England. It provides transport connections between Leigh, Tyldesley and Ellenbrook and onwards to Manchester city centre on local roads.
Leighth Feight
Clash between Chartists and police in Leigh, Lancashire in August 1839.
Lever Park, Rivington
Grade II listed country park between Rivington in Lancashire and Horwich in Greater Manchester.
Liber Poenitentialis
Set of 7th-century ecclesiastical laws applied to women – and only women – perfoming acts such as divination, raising storms, or murder by the use of magic.
Lilias Adie, witch
Elderly Torryburn woman who died after confessing to witchcraft; her face was reconstructed from photos of her skull.
Lillie Wallace, witch
Redirected to Pittenweem witches.
Lindow Moss
Raised peat bog in Cheshire, best known for the discovery of the preserved bog body of Lindow Man in 1984.
Lindow Woman
Partial remains of a female bog body discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, Cheshire in 1983.
Lion comique
Type of popular entertainer in the Victorian music halls, a parody of upper-class toffs or “swells” made popular by Alfred Vance and G. H. MacDermott, among others.
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