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Haigh Hall

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Haigh Hall is a historic country house in Haigh, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. [1]

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  1. 76 relations: Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford, Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, Ashlar, Balcarres House, Balcony, Baluster, Beech, British Library Philatelic Collections, Cannel coal, Cant (architecture), Casement window, Cast iron, Coal, Coffer, Column, Cornice, Crawford Library, David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford, Dorothy Bradshaigh, Edward VII, English country house, Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, Façade, Fanlight, Fief, Fife, Frieze, Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, Great Haigh Sough, Greater Manchester, Gutenberg Bible, Haigh Foundry, Haigh Hall Miniature Railway, Haigh, Greater Manchester, Harry Ransom Center, Italianate architecture, Jacobite Army (1745), James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, Jan Kip, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Joseph Highmore, Lancashire Coalfield, Lancashire Cotton Famine, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Lightwell, Listed building, Listed buildings in Haigh, Greater Manchester, Lord of the manor, Manor house, ... Expand index (26 more) »

  2. Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
  3. Country houses in Greater Manchester
  4. Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
  5. Tourist attractions in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford

Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford, 8th Earl of Balcarres (16 October 181213 December 1880), styled Lord Lindsay between 1825 and 1869, was a Scottish peer, art historian and collector. Haigh Hall and Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford are clan Lindsay.

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Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres

General Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, 23rd Earl of Crawford (18 January 175227 March 1825), styled Lord Balniel until 1768, was a Scottish peer, military officer, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Jamaica from 1795 to 1801. Haigh Hall and Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres are clan Lindsay.

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Ashlar

Ashlar is a cut and dressed stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape.

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Balcarres House

Balcarres House lies 1km north of the village of Colinsburgh, in the East Neuk of Fife, in eastern Scotland. Haigh Hall and Balcarres House are clan Lindsay.

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Balcony

A balcony (from balcone, "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.

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Baluster

A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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British Library Philatelic Collections

The British Library Philatelic Collections is the national philatelic collection of the United Kingdom with over 8 million items from around the world.

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Cannel coal

Cannel coal or candle coal is a type of bituminous coal, also classified as terrestrial type oil shale.

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Cant (architecture)

A cant in architecture is an angled (oblique-angled) line or surface that cuts off a corner.

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Casement window

A casement window is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Coffer

A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault.

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Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.

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Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall.

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Crawford Library

The Crawford Library is a library of early books about philately formed between 1898 and 1913 by James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford.

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David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford

David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, (20 November 1900 – 13 December 1975), known as Lord Balniel from 1913 to 1940, was a British Unionist politician. Haigh Hall and David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford are clan Lindsay.

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Dorothy Bradshaigh

Dorothy Bradshaigh (baptised 1705, d. 1785), British letter writer and cookery book compiler.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Enriqueta Augustina Rylands

Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (31 May 1843 – 4 February 1908) was a British philanthropist who founded the John Rylands Library in Manchester.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.

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Fanlight

A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Frieze

In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester

There are 236 Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England.

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Great Haigh Sough

The Great Haigh Sough is a tunnel or adit driven under Sir Roger Bradshaigh's estate between 1653 and 1670, to drain his coal and cannel pits in Haigh on the Lancashire Coalfield. Haigh Hall and Great Haigh Sough are buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.

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Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Gutenberg Bible

The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, was the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type.

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Haigh Foundry

Haigh Foundry was an ironworks and foundry in Haigh, Lancashire, which was notable for the manufacture of early steam locomotives.

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Haigh Hall Miniature Railway

Haigh Hall Miniature Railway (HHMR) is a gauge miniature railway, situated in the grounds of Haigh Country Park in Haigh, Greater Manchester, England.

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Haigh, Greater Manchester

Haigh is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Italianate architecture

The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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Jacobite Army (1745)

The Jacobite Army, sometimes referred to as the Highland Army,Pittock, Murray (2013) Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760: Treacherous Objects, Secret Places, p.88 was the military force assembled by Charles Edward Stuart and his Jacobite supporters during the 1745 Rising that attempted to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.

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James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford

James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford and the 6th Earl of Balcarres (24 April 1783 – 15 December 1869) was a Scottish peer, politician and military officer. Haigh Hall and James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford are clan Lindsay.

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James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford

James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres, KT, FRS, FRAS (28 July 184731 January 1913) was a British astronomer, politician, ornithologist, bibliophile and philatelist. Haigh Hall and James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford are clan Lindsay.

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Jan Kip

Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/53 in Amsterdam – 1722 in Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer.

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John Rylands Research Institute and Library

The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England.

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Joseph Highmore

Joseph Highmore (13 June 16923 March 1780) was an English painter of portraits, conversation pieces and history subjects, illustrator and author.

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Lancashire Coalfield

The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield.

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Lancashire Cotton Famine

The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as the Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–1865), was a depression in the textile industry of North West England, brought about by overproduction in a time of contracting world markets.

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Leeds and Liverpool Canal

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.

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Lightwell

In architecture, a lightwell,light well, light-well sky-well,skywell, sky well or air shaft is an unroofed or roofed external space provided within the volume of a large building to allow light and air to reach what would otherwise be a dark or unventilated area.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Listed buildings in Haigh, Greater Manchester

Haigh is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Lord of the manor

Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.

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National Heritage List for England

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets.

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National Lottery Heritage Fund

The National Lottery Heritage Fund, formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.

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Palmette

The palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree.

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Parapet

A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure.

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Parbold

Parbold is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England.

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Parterre

A parterre is a part of a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of symmetrical patterns, made up by plant beds, plats, low hedges or coloured gravels, which are separated and connected by paths.

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Philately

Philately is the study of postage stamps and postal history.

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Porch

A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building.

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Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester

Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester and 1st Earl of Lincoln (1170 – 26 October 1232), known in some references as the 4th Earl of Chester (in the second lineage of the title after the original family line was broken after the 2nd Earl), was one of the "old school" of Anglo-Norman barons whose loyalty to the Angevin dynasty was consistent but contingent on the receipt of lucrative favours.

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Ridable miniature railway

A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam or electric motors).

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River Douglas, Lancashire

The River Douglas, also known as the River Asland or Astland, flows through parts of Lancashire and Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sash window

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes".

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Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1st Baronet

Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1st Baronet (14 January 1628 – 31 March 1684) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.

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Tuscan order

The Tuscan order (Latin Ordo Tuscanicus or Ordo Tuscanus, with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas.

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Wigan Coal and Iron Company

The Wigan Coal and Iron Company was formed when collieries on the Lancashire Coalfield owned by John Lancaster were acquired by Lord Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, owner of the Haigh Colliery in 1865.

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Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

Wigan Council, or Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.

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Wigan Post

The Wigan Post (formerly Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle and later just the Wigan Evening Post) is a weekly (changed from daily in August 2021) tabloid British regional newspaper for Wigan in Greater Manchester (formerly in the traditional county of Lancashire).

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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See also

Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

Country houses in Greater Manchester

Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester

Tourist attractions in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haigh_Hall

Also known as Haigh Country Park, Haigh Hall Golf Club.

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