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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Slyne like this:
SLYNE-WITH-HEST, a township in Bolton-le-Sands parish, Lancashire; on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 2½ miles NNW of Lancaster. It has post-offices, of the names of Slyne and Hest-Bank, under Lancaster. Acres, 1,114. Real property, £2,737. Pop., 312 Houses, 58. The manor belongs to T. Greene, Esq.; and S. House is the residence of R. G. Bradley, Esq.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Slyne by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Hest Bank | 3 | 2 |
Bare | 0 | 2 |
Skerton | 0 | 2 |
Torrisholme | 0 | 2 |
Bulk | 0 | 2 |
Bolton le Sands | 0 | 2 |
Nether Kellet | 0 | 2 |
Morecambe | 1 | 9 |
Halton | 0 | 2 |
Lancaster | 31 | 3 |
Carnforth | 0 | 2 |
Heaton | 0 | 2 |
Aldcliffe | 0 | 2 |
Warton | 0 | 3 |
Quernmore | 0 | 2 |
Over Kellet | 0 | 2 |
Scotforth | 0 | 2 |
Stodday | 0 | 1 |
Aughton | 0 | 2 |
Heysham | 0 | 2 |