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Maybe you should help her come election time to check whether dancing feet are best suited in Leyland, Penworthan, Longton, or maybe Meols Cop, Tarleton, Croston.....
Morning Live Blog 2007
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Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; b. of a good Yorkshire family about 1360, Croston being sometimes mentioned, though without clear authority, as his birthplace; d. at Sleaford, 25
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Martyr, third son of Richard Ashton of Croston, in Lancashire.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In a communication to Croston, Harris remarked that this was the first successful
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Croston 3.83 reports a case of Cesarean section on a primipara of twenty-four at full term, with the delivery of a double female monster weighing 12 1/2 pounds.
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Croston reports a case of Cesarean section on a primipara of twenty-four at full term, with the delivery of a double female monster weighing 12 1/2 pounds.
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Mr. Rigbye, postmaster at Croston, Lancashire, who was seventy-three years of age in 1899, remembered these Sunday-morning searches, and had seen drunkards sitting in the stocks, which were fixed near the southern step of the village cross.
Vanishing England 1892
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Place-names sometimes preserve their memory, such as Gerard's Cross, in Buckinghamshire, Crosby, Crossens, Cross Inn, Croston; these and many others record the existence in ancient times of a cross, and probably beneath its shade the first preachers of the gospel stood, when they turned the hearts of our heathen ancestors, and taught them the holy lessons of the Cross.
English Villages 1892
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"I was thinking," he went on slowly, "about Mad -- about Lady Croston."
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Croston, yesterday, and told her you were coming home.
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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