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I am wondering if someone can help with possibly identifying these places in Lancashire - they are "place of abode" in baptism records: Park, Cliff and Squires. All the baptisms took place at St Bartholomew, Great Harwood between 1744 and 1774. The ones for "Squires" in particular I am seeing if I can link to two earlier baptisms where the abode was listed as "Billington". I've tried Google maps but can't find them - or anything like them - so am wondering if they are old names or if the places no longer exist (in which case any ideas on locating them would be appreciated!)
Cathryn
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Here is Cliffe:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=LAN,GR=SD728328,PLACE=CLIFFE
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Could "Squires" be "Squires Gate"?
That's in Blackpool.
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Cliffe is mentioned here http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp337-344
It says near Allsprings. A modern search shows housing at Squires Farm, Allsprings Plantation so perhaps there once was a place called Squires :-\
Billington is also mentioned in the link.
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Cliff http://maps.nls.uk/view/102343952#zoom=5&lat=9001&lon=4610&layers=BT
Park http://maps.nls.uk/view/102343952#zoom=5&lat=8524&lon=5638&layers=BT
Squires http://maps.nls.uk/view/102343952#zoom=5&lat=9567&lon=5607&layers=BT
Stan
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That's great Stan and we were right ;) you even have St Bartholomew's church.
Some more about Billington http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp325-334
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Just wanted to mention there is a facebook page for Great Harwood genealogy with some very knowledgeable people on, just in case there is something Stan can't help with. cb
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Thanks for all the replies and various links, and especially for the links to the old ordnance survey maps Stan - apart from being able to put locations for the names I was looking for, it was interesting (and sometimes amusing) looking at some of the other markings. We are still trying to work out whether "Cluster of Nuts" was a comment on the people living there or whether there were a number of nut trees in the area!
I'll now just have to work out whether Squires was close enough to Billington for the various baptims to be children of the same parents (assuming that the family moved between the first two children, who were baptised at Whalley, and the second two, who were baptised at Great Harwood) - the father's name is the same, as is the occupation of husbandman, and no mother's name is listed for any of them. The facebook page Clayton mentioned might be of help there.
Again, many thanks.
Cathryn
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John Mercer's autobiography (he invented mercerization) says "I went to live with the Wolstenholmes at Cliff, the farm house across the road from the Dog and Otter Public House." cb
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There's a "Cluster of Nuts" which seems to be a farm between Altham and Clayton le Moors, near Gt. Harwood.
http://maps.nls.uk/view/102343952#zoom=5&lat=9567&lon=5607&layers=BT
When viewing this map, Cluster of Nuts is situated to the left of the K which is part of the word Blackburn of which only the letters A C K and B are shown.
I'd hazard a guess that the road on the old map to the right of `C of N` is the A678, Burnley Road on a map of today.
AB