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| AINTREE is not separately mentioned in Domesday Book; from later notices its assessment is found to have been one plough-land. The name Aintree originated from Saxon times and is interpreted to mean 'one tree' or 'tree standing alone'. At the time Aintree was mainly moss land. One of the first documented reference to Aintree is found in a Charter of Cockersand Abbey (the monks being the most important landowners at that time), written about 1200. ALLERTON WARD, HARRINGTON PORT and Parish extends about 2˝ miles along the sea coast, and is about one mile in breadth, containing the small Sea Port of Harrington, anciently called Bella Port, at the mouth of a rivulet called the Wyre, 2˝ miles S. of Workington, and 5 miles N. of Whitehaven. Harrington, formerly spelled Haverington, or Haverinqham, passed at an early period to a family of that name; of which house there were branches resident at Beaumont, in Cumberland; Witherslaik2, in Westmorland; Aldingham, in Furness, Lancashire; in Ridlington, county of Rutland; and the barons Harrington of Exton. |  |
ALT The manor of Alt has been mentioned above as part of the holding of the lords of Ashton and it being sometimes stated to be held of the barony of Manchester, but more usually of the king as Duke of Lancaster as of his manor of Salford in old kingdom Northumbria.
ASHTON in 1066 was held freely by ALDEN. In 1086 the main estate there was held by Winemar the Fleming. The land held by BONDI reappears in the early 12th century Northamptonshire Survey as the four small virgates held by William Rufus 'Ad hydam'. ASHTON is an ancient Northamptonshire Settlement (Salford). St Andrews Priory (a small abbey) was built about 1100 in Broad Street. Outsiders invariably refer to the wider region of the North West of England as MANCHESTER; LANCASHIRE, GREATER MANCHESTER. Ashton became the junction of three canals, the Manchester and Ashton canal, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Peak Forest Canal long after the small market town grew from wool spinning. The Lords of the Manor moved to DUNHAM MASSEY HALL around this time of Old Hall's building.
ASHTON PARISH grew into SALFORD which became a borough from the market and faire. MANCHESTER's religious changes were transferred to chester and much of the endowments of the parish church were confiscated by Tudors Edward VI and measured by Mary. The families of the parish were the Byrons of Clayton and Radcliffes of Ordsall and during the end of the medieval period, the Barlows of the gentry. Surrounding the PORTLAND basin in the valley, The river Tame begins above OLDHAM in the Pennines and passes through the pasture and woodland known as the Tame Valley.