Lancashire estate and one of the principal seats of the Stanley family, Lords of Man. Knowsley formed, with Lathom, the centre of the Stanley family's English estates. The household accounts preserve the scale of the establishment maintained by the Earls of Derby. The ordinary weekly consumption of the household was about one ox, twelve calves, twenty sheep, fifteen hogsheads of ale, together with bread, fish and poultry. The forests around Knowsley supplied logs for the fires, while the low ground around Lathom supplied turves. James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, was born at Knowsley on 31 January 1606/7. Much of the surviving manuscript material used by later editors to reconstruct his life and government was preserved there. The library contained a vellum manuscript in French and Latin, richly decorated with heraldic arms, setting out the genealogy of James Stanley and his wife Charlotte de la Trémoille. The volume had apparently been prepared around the time of their marriage and emphasised the royal and noble ancestry claimed by both families. The Stanley Papers were themselves later edited from manuscripts held at Knowsley. The Chetham Society acknowledged the Earl of Derby for allowing access to the papers of James Stanley and to other manuscripts in the library, as well as permitting portraits in the collection to be engraved. Knowsley also appeared regularly in the movement of people between the English and Manx Stanley estates. Manx officials, tenants and petitioners might deal with the Earl either on the Island or at one of his Lancashire houses.

Lambfell is the right/left curve at around 10.2 miles, coming after Creg Willey's Hill and just before the Cronk-y-Voddy Straight. The point is also known as Lambfell Cottage, with the surrounding area referred to as Lambfell Moar - again a place-name point rather than one with its own racing story.

English county on the eastern side of the Irish Sea and the principal mainland base of the Stanley Lords of Man. The Stanleys held extensive estates in Lancashire, particularly around Lathom and Knowsley, while governing the Isle of Man for much of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Their position linked Manx government directly with the politics of north-west England. That connection became especially important during the Civil Wars. James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, raised forces in Lancashire for Charles I while retaining control of Mann. Parliamentary authorities repeatedly feared that the Island might be used to support Royalist activity on the mainland. During the conspiracies of 1651 vessels were sent towards Mann to prevent troops landing from the Island in Lancashire, and General Blake was appointed to command a squadron watching the Irish Sea. Derby returned from Mann in 1651 to join Charles II. His hastily raised Lancashire force was defeated by Colonel Robert Lilburne at Wigan on 25 August. Wounded, Derby escaped and continued to Worcester, where he joined the king before the final Royalist defeat. After Worcester he was captured, tried under the Commonwealth Act prohibiting correspondence with Charles Stuart, and condemned to death. The sentence ordered that he should be beheaded at the market place in Bolton.

Langness Lighthouse stands on the low peninsula south-east of Castletown. Engineer Robert Stevenson recommended a light for the site as early as 1801, and in 1811 an unlit tower, later known as the Herring Tower, was built there, but it failed to prevent further wrecks and Trinity House repeatedly rejected calls for a proper lighthouse. Permission was finally granted to the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1877, and the present lighthouse, engineered by David and Thomas Stevenson, was established in 1880 and first lit that December, showing a white light flashing every five seconds. Its fog signal was discontinued in 1987 and the station was fully automated in 1996.

Langness is a low, rocky peninsula projecting about 2 km from the island's southern coast near Castletown, ending at Dreswick Point, the southernmost tip of the Isle of Man's main island. The Herring Tower, a stone daymark commissioned by the British Government from architect Thomas Brine and built in 1811 to guide the herring fleet home, still stands near its tip alongside a Victorian lighthouse and the remains of wartime gun batteries. Its treacherous waters have claimed shipping over the centuries, including the wreck of HMS Racehorse on 14 December 1822.

Lathom is a locality in Lancashire, England, site of Lathom House, a seat of the Stanley family. The Siege of Lathom House in 1644, during which Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby, defended the stronghold against Parliamentary forces, is a celebrated episode in Stanley family history with direct connections to the contemporaneous events on the Isle of Man. The siege was fought over at a distance as well as on the ground. The royalist leaders at Chester addressed Prince Rupert about it, and the Earl of Derby had to send his own information after them because Rupert had been misinformed. The republicans, for their part, feared the Earl's standing in the county and would not trust their own soldiers if he came among them, and the committee at Manchester addressed him directly. The house stayed a Stanley seat afterwards. The second wife of the eighth Earl died at Lathom House and was buried at Ormskirk on 16 April 1703, and the family papers of that generation are dated from it.

Manx: Cronk-y-Killey.

The Laxey Glen Flour Mills complex on Mill Road, Laxey, is registered as a flour mills complex. No further verifiable history of the mills' construction, ownership or operation could be found online beyond this listing.

Founded in 1861 by Captain Richard Rowe, a Cornishman and former captain of the Laxey Mines, and built by engineer Robert Casement, designer of the Great Laxey Wheel, to harness the Laxey River for flour milling. The business, run for generations by the Corlett family, has survived three major fires and two world wars. Still producing flour from Manx-grown wheat today, it is one of the Island's oldest continuously operating industrial businesses.

A small harbour at the mouth of the Laxey River, built in the 1850s specifically to service the nearby Great Laxey Mine, one of the most productive lead, zinc and silver mines on the island. Ore was carried by horse tramway down Glen Road to the harbour for shipment to smelting works in Wales. Mining at Laxey ceased around 1934, and the harbour is now used mainly by leisure craft and small inshore fishing boats.

The former Laxey Working Men's Institute on New Road, Laxey, is registered as a onetime workingmen's club, reflecting the strong tradition of miners' and workers' self-help institutions that grew up around the Great Laxey mines in the nineteenth century. No further verifiable detail specific to this building's history could be found online beyond its listing.

Leafield, on King Edward Road in Onchan, is registered on the Isle of Man's Protected Buildings Register (registered 11 September 1989) with the description 'House (Knox)', the same designation given to its neighbour Braeside. Beyond its listing as a registered house, no further verifiable history of the building's construction, design, or occupants was found.

This hall on Bromet Road was built by the Admiralty during the Second World War as a cinema and gymnasium for personnel of H.M.S. Urley, the Royal Naval air station established at Ronaldsway in 1943-44 to help meet Britain's wartime need for naval air training bases. It stood within the Castletown Camp, a domestic site housing naval personnel in Nissen huts nearby; when the station was decommissioned after the war and its camps converted to housing, this building was the sole structure from the site left standing. In May 1960 Tynwald gave the building to the Castletown branch of the Royal British Legion at no charge, and it has remained the Legion Hall ever since, still largely retaining its original entrance foyer, dance floor, stage and projection room, making it a rare and largely unaltered survivor of the Island's wartime military architecture.

Leodest Methodist Chapel on Leodest Road, Andreas, is registered simply as a chapel. No further verifiable historical detail about this specific building could be found online.

Historic estate and coastal district on the southern side of Ramsey Bay. Robertson’s survey of the principal estates of Maughold noted that Lewaigue had formerly been the chief estate in the parish, but by the end of the eighteenth century had been divided into several portions. The shore was also considered as a possible solution to Ramsey’s poor harbour. Robertson argued that an excellent harbour could be made at Port Lewaigue by carrying a quay from the land to the Carrick, or rock, in the corner of the bay. He estimated the complete work at about £5,000 and suggested that shipowners using both channels might subscribe if government took the lead. Lewaigue later became associated with the Christian family and with a substantial body of supernatural tradition. W. Walter Gill recorded stories of a White Lady seen on Lewaigue Bridge and around the farm. In one account she entered the house and walked upstairs in front of a woman who was so frightened that she left Lewaigue and moved to Creg-ny-Mult. Gill connected the apparition with Christian Lewaigue. Another story placed a supernatural encounter at Dreem-y-Jeeskaig, where an evil spirit was said to have resisted several attempts to lay it until Christian Lewaigue was called. After a second encounter the spirit was not heard again, although Gill’s informants said Christian was never the same afterwards. By 1929 proposals for expanding Ramsey’s water district included Lewaigue.

Leyton on Victoria Road is registered as an 1890s Arts and Crafts house. Beyond this register description, no further verifiable historical detail about its architect, first owner or design history could be confirmed from available sources.

Parish in the north of the Isle of Man, extending from the northern plain into the Sulby valley. Lezayre formed part of Ayre Sheading with Andreas and Bride. The parish stretched inland from the district around Ramsey and contained the valley of the Sulby, one of the largest river systems on the Island. The Sulby river was important enough for a new bridge to be specifically included in the eighteenth-century programme of bridge building. The Act of Tynwald of 1739, which levied a penny annually on inhabitants between sixteen and sixty for bridge repairs, listed a bridge over the Sulby in Lezayre as the first of the new bridges to be constructed. Milntown, the principal seat of the Christian family, lay in the parish. The family produced generations of Deemsters and other officers, and William Christian, Illiam Dhone, was a younger son of Deemster Ewan Christian of Milntown. The parish was predominantly agricultural. Its lower ground formed part of the fertile northern plain, while the upper Sulby valley ran into the central hills. The road through the valley provided one of the principal routes between Ramsey and the west. Sulby was also a fair centre. Robertson's eighteenth-century list records two fairs there in June.

Adjacent to Churchtown War Memorial.

Kirk Christ Lezayre, the parish church at Churchtown, was registered as a protected building in 1991. It is the mother church of the parish of Lezayre, standing near the site of a former Cistercian priory that was once a cell of Furness Abbey; the nearby chapel of ease, St Olave's, was built in Ramsey town itself in 1861 as a more convenient place of worship for parishioners living closer to the harbour.

The Lezayre Parish War Memorial, standing at the junction of the Ramsey-to-Sulby road and the Churchtown Loop Road on part of the former Ballakillingan estate, commemorates 46 men of the parish who died in the First World War and a further 11 who died in the Second. It takes the form of a red sandstone cross on an octagonal pillar, built from Bankend Quarries stone with white marble plaques and a marble statue of a soldier, dedicated by the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man on 23 May 1923, with the Second World War names unveiled in 1951. It was granted protected status in 2021.

Lhergy Frissel is a location on the Isle of Man. The name suggests a Manx Gaelic toponym (lhergy meaning "slope"), and it may be connected to the Frissell family who appear among the officers of the Royal Manx Fencibles.

The Lifeboat House on the Quay at Port St Mary serves the village's RNLI lifeboat station, which was established in 1896, making it one of the longer-serving stations on the Isle of Man. Today the station's lifeboat, the Gough Ritchie II, is kept at a permanent floating mooring just inside the outer breakwater rather than housed on a slipway, with the historic lifeboat house remaining part of the harbour's working fabric. The building is a visible reminder of Port St Mary's long relationship with sea rescue around the island's rocky southern coast.

Known locally as "Winkie," this secondary lighthouse stands on the beach at Cranstal, near the Point of Ayre, the Isle of Man's northernmost tip. It was built in 1899, sited around 750 feet seaward of the main Point of Ayre lighthouse, because shifting shingle and gravel deposited by strong currents in the area meant a lower, closer light was needed to guide vessels safely around the sandbanks. It was moved a further 250 feet in 1950 to keep pace with the changing coastline, before finally being discontinued on 7 April 2010 as navigational technology moved on.

The lighthouse at Cranstal is the Point of Ayre Lighthouse, marking the northernmost tip of the Isle of Man. It was built by the Northern Lighthouse Board's chief engineer, Robert Stevenson, following an 1815 Act of Tynwald authorising its construction, and was first lit in 1818, making it the oldest operational lighthouse on the island; the keepers arriving before the building was finished reportedly had to lodge with a farmer two miles away. Its powerful foghorns, once audible as far as the Mull of Galloway 26 miles distant, have since been retired, and the light itself was automated in 1993. It was registered as a protected building in November 1993.

Lancashire port with longstanding military, administrative and commercial connections to the Isle of Man. Liverpool appears repeatedly in Commonwealth records concerning the conquest of Mann in 1651. Charles Walley of Chester later petitioned the Protector describing his work shipping troops from Chester, Liverpool and the north-Welsh ports and managing expenditure connected with “the reducing the Isle of Man”. During the political crisis preceding the Parliamentary expedition, Liverpool formed part of the mainland military network watching James Stanley. Prisoners taken during Royalist disturbances in Lancashire were sent to Lancaster Castle and Liverpool, while arms collected from potentially hostile inhabitants were ordered into the port. Government accounts also record expenditure on messengers travelling to the Isle of Man. In October 1651 the Council instructed the Governor of Liverpool to deal with the two daughters of the Earl of Derby, who were then being held under restraint in the town. The naval operation against Mann was organised within the same Irish Sea system. Colonel Robert Blake was appointed to command a squadron of twelve vessels intended for the Isle of Man and the eastern coast of Ireland, while ships already operating north of Ireland were ordered to keep a particular watch on the Island. Liverpool later became one of the principal English ports trading with Mann and one of the main passenger routes between the Island and Britain.