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Built as Stoneyhurst Hall by Sir Richard Shireburn, the building was abandoned by the family and given to the Catholic Church; it became a school run by Jesuit Priests.

Apart from the section between Castlefields and Dale Street Basin in Manchester, the canal was abandoned in 1952, and Hollingworth Lake was finally given over to recreation and leisure activities.

However, a few months later the Archbishop of York ordered the scheme abandoned on the grounds that 'it would not be desirable to proceed for some years to come'.

In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before it was completed.

mechanisation of weaving in the early 19th century robbed the village of both its industry and population, and the hall, the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, was abandoned

On 28 September 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, landed here and occupied the long-abandoned Roman for- tress, which then occupied a promontory overlooking open sea.

Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

This revolutionary town planning project was abandoned when insufficient land could be acquired, but not before Laurie Square had been completed with Laurie Hall and these fine town mansions.

In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before completion.

In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before completion.

the place to live for those wealthier members of Georgian society who had settled in Exmouth, including Lady Nelson, the estranged wife of the hero of Trafalgar, and Lady Byron, the abandoned

It was the era of the railways that killed it off and for years it was abandoned and completely derelict.

Fortunately the scheme was abandoned.

Kippax Park was abandoned in 1929 and finally demolished in the late 1950s, when the land was used for opencast mining.

Ilkley's fort was effectively abandoned in the years AD122-125.

The project was eventually abandoned, but by this time Oban had begun to develop, albeit very slowly.

Several of these ideas, such as the pier, were later abandoned.

Along the way it was abandoned in the dissolution of 1539, the tower collapsed in 1690 and there was a major fire here in 1906.

The second was a small, well-designed de Clare stronghold, which seems to have lasted only a couple of hundred years before being abandoned and deliberately destroyed.

Oblong in plan, with the church at its southern end and the A47 to the north, the village is entered by long-abandoned medieval roads from Cold Newton to the north, itself a shrunken village, and from

The Channel Tunnel link from Folkestone to mainland France was started in the 1880s, and then abandoned.

This time the pier was abandoned, and before the war was over it had disappeared completely.

Within a few years, however, the Sutherlands had abandoned Trentham: in 1910 the fourth Duke offered it for sale to the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.

The project was eventually abandoned, but by this time Oban had begun to develop, albeit very slowly.