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James Stockdale

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CARKE, HOLKER, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, IN FORMER DAYS. Often have I heard old people say that previous to the erection of the cotton mill, Carke was one of the prettiest little rural villages in the north of England; situate in a snug and sheltered valley, in a then almost isolated country, with beautiful green banks sloping gradually and easily down to the margin of the running stream, and large forge dam, in the midst of which were here and there islets of birch and alder trees, dipping their branches into the water, and around the whole some whitened rush-thatched cottages, a good house or two of that day, a corn mill, a fulling mill, a paper mill, a large antiquated forge, and, though last not least, a comfortable little way-side inn, ensconced amongst wide-spreading weeping willow trees, close to the little river, and the then only bridge in the village --this inn and this bridge, though enlarged to some extent, remaining much the same as they then were, even at this day. About the year 1782 my grandfather and others built the large cotton mill (now a corn mill belonging to Mr. Hall), and a number of cottages, workshops, engine houses, tail and other races, and no fewer than nine bridges and archways, destroying entirely the rural appearance of the village, and leaving it very little better in appearance than it is at the present day. Up to 1782, the only bridge in Carke was the one near the little inn just spoken of. There was indeed a wooden bridge over the stream opposite my house, and two sets of "stepping" or "hipping stones," one immediately in front of Mr. Hall's farmhouse, (five of these stones still remaining there) and one at a place below what was once called Crook Wheel, near the present level crossing on...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Annales Caermoelenses. To get started finding Annales Caermoelenses, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CARKE, HOLKER, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, IN FORMER DAYS. Often have I heard old people say that previous to the erection of the cotton mill, Carke was one of the prettiest little rural villages in the north of England; situate in a snug and sheltered valley, in a then almost isolated country, with beautiful green banks sloping gradually and easily down to the margin of the running stream, and large forge dam, in the midst of which were here and there islets of birch and alder trees, dipping their branches into the water, and around the whole some whitened rush-thatched cottages, a good house or two of that day, a corn mill, a fulling mill, a paper mill, a large antiquated forge, and, though last not least, a comfortable little way-side inn, ensconced amongst wide-spreading weeping willow trees, close to the little river, and the then only bridge in the village --this inn and this bridge, though enlarged to some extent, remaining much the same as they then were, even at this day. About the year 1782 my grandfather and others built the large cotton mill (now a corn mill belonging to Mr. Hall), and a number of cottages, workshops, engine houses, tail and other races, and no fewer than nine bridges and archways, destroying entirely the rural appearance of the village, and leaving it very little better in appearance than it is at the present day. Up to 1782, the only bridge in Carke was the one near the little inn just spoken of. There was indeed a wooden bridge over the stream opposite my house, and two sets of "stepping" or "hipping stones," one immediately in front of Mr. Hall's farmhouse, (five of these stones still remaining there) and one at a place below what was once called Crook Wheel, near the present level crossing on...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Annales Caermoelenses. To get started finding Annales Caermoelenses, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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