42 HISTORY OF LANCASTER.

Edward Storey, Esq.; Langthwaite House, Chas. Fdk. Ducksbury~ Esq.; Oonderdell, Rd. Lister Riley, Esq; and The Grange, Littlefell~ Rbt. Fletcher Moser, Esq, are all imposing residences. Well House takes its name from a mineral spring in the cellar, known as St. Mary's Well. The house has long been the property of the CouIston family, now of Bolton-le-Sands, and is at present occupied by F. W. Seward, Esq. SKERTON is separated from Lancaster by the , which is here crossed by a noble bridge of five eliptical arches, built in 1788. Prior to the erection of this bridge, the old bridge across the Lune was towards the foot of Bridge lane and St. George's Quay and across the river into Lune street, Skerton. This was in the days when the old stage coach came rumbling through Old China. street, down Bridge lane, across the old bridge, into Lune street, Skerton, up Main street, and on to the Ralton road to the north. The old Lune Bridge is said to have been washed away more than a hundred years ago. A good deal of trade is carried on in this important suburb. The principal landowners are Henry Melville Gaskell, Esq; the Right Hon. Baron Ashton; Miss Clark; Wm. Briggs, Esq; and Edward Geoffrey Stanley Hornby, Esq. Many picturesque mansions ornament the district, the chief of which are Ryelands, the seat of the Right Hon. Baron Ashton; Cross Hill, Miss Clark; Richmond House, J. Lawson Whalley; The Vale,. William Briggs, Esq.; Hare Runs, Miss Whalley; and Acrelands,. C. Thompson, Esq. A portion of Skerton has also been added to Halton and Slyne­ with-Hest townships, and 28 acres to . The County Police Station is at Skerton. It is the head quarters for Lonsdale South Division, which division has a strength of one, superintendent, one inspector, eight sergeants, and 45 constables.

Golgotha forms part of Lancaster, and is included in Christ. Church ecclesiastical parish. It is a hamlet at the top of Coulston and Wyresdale roads, and facing Williamson Park. Here is the Quakers' Sepulchre, at one time used as a burial ground by the Society of Friends.

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