Expanded from papers read to the Manchester Literary Club, Hardwick’s study sifts history from legend for the early battles fought in Lancashire: Arthurian battles, the defeat and death of St. Oswald of Northumbria, and the engagements in the Ribble valley near Whalley and Clitheroe, with long digressions on place-names, surnames, totems and folklore.
An antiquary’s ramble for readers of local history and Anglo-Saxon legend. Download the free EPUB.