Yew Tree Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1845 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...
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Tarn, a lake in the Lake District, England Yew Tree (ward), an electoral division in Liverpool Yew Tree Colliery, a coalfield in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester...
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that had its origins in Yew Tree Colliery, the location for a mining disaster that killed 25 men and boys in 1858. Yew Tree Farm covered about 18 Cheshire...
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Yew Tree Colliery Disaster (PDF), cmhrc.co.uk, p. 46, archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011, retrieved 17 October 2009 Alan McEwen Yew Tree...
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Lilford and building materials were donated by John Holland, manager of Yew Tree Colliery in Tyldesley. It served the growing Catholic population in Hindsford...
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about 1851, George Green had built a horse-drawn tramway linking Yew Tree Colliery to the Bridgewater Canal east of Astley Green. The tramway was out...
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fires. The churchyard contains the graves of victims of a disaster at Yew Tree Colliery. In 1966 the church was designated a Grade II listed building. Up...
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lasting of the collieries owned by the Tyldesley Coal Company was sunk under the Cleworth Hall estate to the east of Yew Tree Colliery in 1874. The two...
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Ramsden's wife had to keep the collieries working and pay wages and had to approach George Green of Yew Tree Colliery for help. Ramsden returned some...
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listed as abandoned 1938 St George's Colliery Nos 2 and 3 Tyldesley Wharton Hall No 1, Nos 2 & 3 Yew Tree Colliery Ashton Moss, Ashton-under-Lyne (known...
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Colliery, Northern Mines Research Society, retrieved 26 November 2017 Nadin 2006, p. 26. Winstanley, p. 18. Winstanley, p. 19. Norley Hall Colliery,...
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Lane, and north at New Manchester where the coal seams outcropped. Other colliery companies operating in the area included Tyldesley Coal Company whose pits...
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Gresford (section Gresford Colliery)
known to have been the site of an ancient Celtic church and a stand of yew trees in the churchyard has been dated to 500AD. In common with many of the...
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and treasures, natural and social history, All Saints Church and Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn. The Village Hall houses an album quilt with the theme "Living in Westbere"...
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figures, something that at the time was only popular in Florence. The yew tree in the churchyard has been dated to more than 1,200 years, likely to be...
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Grey Topper is told in the book The Palace and the Punks by Tony Hill. Yew Tree Farm, Westwood situated on Main Road adjacent to Westwood Farm. Built 17th...
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for commuters to Chorley and Wigan. Notable industries today include The Yew Tree Dairy, Morris' Bakery and Staveley's egg producer. Intersecting the village...
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Tyldesley Loopline (section Collieries)
Bedford Colliery in Leigh was connected at Speakman's sidings on the Pennington branch and the Shakerley, Yew Tree and Cleworth Hall Collieries belonging...
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Ashton-under-Lyne - Gee Cross, via Newton and Hyde. 389: Ashton-under-Lyne - Yew Tree, via Stalybridge. Dukinfield Central railway station, which was closed...
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be seen nearby. The Great Yew of Ormiston grows to the south of the hall site. It is a rare example of a layering yew-tree and, according to the Forestry...
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those wonders being: "Wrexham steeple", "Gresford bells", and " Overton yew trees". Elihu Yale, after which Yale University is named after, is buried in...
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40 km2), with fine plantings, orchards and gardens. The famous Bogston yew tree, when it fell in 1874, was 38 feet high, with a spread of 50 feet, and...
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Season Premier Division Division One 2004–05 Jubilee Sports Yew Tree 2005–06 Jubilee Sports Grimethorpe Athletic 2006–07 Grimethorpe Athletic Kiveton Park...
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incredibly old yew trees. Both are mentioned in the National Register of Ancient Yews and are also mentioned in Andrew Morton's 'Trees of Shropshire'...
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and studio in 1990 at Clock House in Bruisyard. In 1992, he established Yew Tree Farm Studios, in Laxfield, a foundry and an artistic community. It was...
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majority of the woodland are a mixed hardwood forest, including trees such as oak and yew, which are harvested for timber to be used primarily as firewood...
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several varieties of daffodils, bluebells and primroses. The oldest tree, a 550‑year‑old yew, predates the hall, and the tallest, a wellingtonia, towers over...
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hunt swallows and martins. The upper lake is fringed by oak, yew, beech and Scots pine trees, and provides habitat for willow tits and woodpeckers, with...
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was convinced by a conversation with Singapore's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew to limit the scale and duration of the war. Following the one-month war,...
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Tarleton, the daughter of local landowners. The couple settled at the Yew Trees in Henley-in-Arden High Street and enjoyed a high social standing locally...
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