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Croxton Kerrial (pronounced [ˈkroʊsən ˈkɛrɨl]) is a village and civil parish in the Melton borough of Leicestershire, England, 6.6 miles (10.6 km) south-west of Grantham, 7.9 miles (12.7 km) north-east of Melton Mowbray, and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of Leicestershire's border with Lincolnshire.
Crofton is a village in West Yorkshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) south-east of Wakefield, some 6 miles (10 km) to the west of the town of Pontefract, and 4 miles (6 km) from the town of Featherstone. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,781.
Croxton Abbey was founded by William, Count of Boulogne and Mortain, who donated the land for the abbey and endowed it the advowsons of the church of Croxton Kerrial in Leicestershire, and the churches of Ault Hucknall and Lowne in Derbyshire. The donation of the land must have happened before the Count's death in 1159, however, canons were not ...
Croxton Kerrial: Croxton Mill: Smock: 1806 [12] Windmill World: E - G. Location Name of mill and grid reference Type Maps First mention or built Last mention
Haworth (UK: / ˈ h aʊ. ər θ / HOW-ərth, [3] also / ˈ h ɔː ər θ / HAW-ərth, [4] US: / ˈ h ɔː w ər θ / HAW-wərth [4]) is a village in West Yorkshire, England, [5] [6] in the Pennines 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Keighley, 8 miles (13 km) north of Halifax, 10 miles (16 km) west of Bradford and 10 miles (16 km) east of Colne in Lancashire.
Branston is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Croxton Kerrial in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the A607 road, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Grantham and 7 miles north-east of Melton Mowbray, on the southern edge of the Vale of Belvoir, 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Belvoir Castle.
Batley Carr is a district which includes parts of Dewsbury and Batley in West Yorkshire, England. [1] [2]Batley Carr housed workers from the mills of Dewsbury and Batley.As the settlement expanded with the growth of the textile industry, it gained its own railway station, Staincliffe and Batley Carr.
The 300-acre (120-hectare) estate on which the asylum was built was purchased by the West Riding Justices for £18,000 in 1885. [3] The hospital was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers Edwards [4] and the large gothic complex of stone buildings was formally opened as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 8 October 1888. [3]