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Listed Buildings In Shevington
Shevington is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The parish contains eight listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish contains the villages of Shevington and Gathurst and the surrounding countryside. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through the parish, and the listed buildings associated with it are a bridge, locks, and a lock-keeper's cottage. The other listed buildings are a farmhouse, farm buildings, a public house with a mounting block A mounting block, horse block, carriage stone, or in Scots a loupin'-on stane is an assistance for mounting and dismounting a horse or cart. Usage and locations Mounting blocks were especially useful for women riding sidesaddle or pillion, that ..., and a school and master's h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shevington
Shevington is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, England. The population of the Wigan ward called Shevington and Lower Ground had increased to 11,482 at the 2011 Census. Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, Shevington lies approximately from Wigan town centre, from Skelmersdale and at the 2001 census had a population of 9,786. History Toponymy Shevington, a farmstead near a hill called ''shevin'', derives from the Celtic ''cevn'' meaning a ridge and the Old English ''tun'', a farmstead. It is a hill slope settlement in the Douglas Valley recorded in documents in 1225 as Shefington. Other recorded spellings include Scheuynton in 1253, Sheuington in 1277, Sewinton 1288 and Sheuynton in 1292. History Shevington became a manor, an estate system of local government held of the king by a lord of the manor from the 12th to the 18th centuries. The area was included within the ecclesiastical parish of Standish until 1887 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
