Haydock? Haydock is Yickerland

<body aLink="#516FAC" bgColor="#143376" link="#516FAC" text="#000000" vLink="#02B21F> <p> </p> <p><font color=" face="Verdana" size="4" #FFFFFF"><font color="#ffffff" face="Verdana" size="3"> Haydock, haydock, yicker, Yicker, Liverpool, liverpool, St Helens Rugby are all related to Haydock. Haydock is situated in the North West of England. It is roughly half way between Liverpool and Manchester. It is quite by accident that it has one of the most accessible locations in the Country. Surrounded by dual carriageways and motorways, it is less than 2 miles from two different rail links and was originally adjacent to England’s first canal, the Sankey Brook Canal, which was constructed in 1757</font> <script language="Javascript" src="http://tools.addme.com/servlet/pop?id=5346"></script> <p> </p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="6">Welcome to Yicker.co.uk. </font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana" size="4"> This site is about Haydock, St Helens, Merseyside. 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UK</font></td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 40; margin-right: 40" align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">Haydock is situated in the North West of England. It is roughly half way between Liverpool and Manchester. It is quite by accident that it has one of the most accessible locations in the Country. Surrounded by dual carriageways and motorways, it is less than 2 miles from two different rail links and was originally adjacent to Englands first canal, the Sankey Brook Canal, which was constructed in 1757</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40; margin-right: 40" align="justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">Originally Haydocks main asset lay under the ground. Coal was mined in the area, on a rather primitive basis, as early as in the 16<sup>th</sup> Century. Haydock was one of the townships of the South-West Lancashire Coalfield. Other towns and villages in the area also had a thriving Coal Mining Industry, such as Leigh, Wigan, St. Helens, Whiston, Prescot, Billinge, Parr and Haigh.<O:P></O:P> </font> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40; margin-right: 40" align="justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">In a region, which lacks any great pre mediaeval history, several Stone Age tools found within the Haydock area proves that primitive man once roamed around the local landscape. An old British road (pre Roman) bisected the township from west to east, running from Prescot to Lowton and a major Roman road linking Wilderspool (Warrington) to Coccium (Wigan) ran in a northerly direction along Haydocks eastern boundary. Even as late as at the time of the Norman Conquest it seems that all of this part of South West Lancashire was either covered by dense deciduous forest, part of a marshy, peaty saturated bog or was of slightly higher, exposed moorland.<O:P> </O:P></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40; margin-right: 40" align="justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">The name Haydock seems to be of Celtic origin and, in the language of that time, meant barley place or the place where barley is grown. In the 12<sup>th</sup> Century Haydock was known as Heidoc (Heidd being barley). From this evidence it seems that the locals created small clearings within the forest, probably on the slightly higher ground where there was better drainage. Here they would form rather small settlements where they would live and cultivate their crops. At this time wild boar, deer and wolves roamed.<O:P> </O:P></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40; margin-right: 40" align="justify"> <font color="#143376">dock Haydock</font></p>