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which, though now converted into pasture, there are some 
indications. Externally, Coldcoates Hall presented in its palmy 
days the customary central portion connecting two wings or 
gable ends, but this portion of Coldcoates has entirely dis- 
appeared, and the two gable ends are now isolated, the 
Western gable becoming the Farm house, and the Eastern 
being used for agricultural purposes. Most of the original 
_ windows are bricked up, but as the labels and jambs remain, 
their size and appearance can be ascertained. But few sculptured 
stones are now to be found; there is one in the original kitchen 
with I W on it; and built in the wall of an outhouse; there is 
an octagonal ornamental stone head of a down spout, having the 
initials R. W. The gable end of the eastern wing from the eaves 
line to the ridge of the roof is half timbered, looking very 
picturesque, and is a pleasant contrast to the cold grey stone of 
the opposite gable. 
Some of the massive and somewhat stately farm buildings 
still remain. The Orchard Barn is gone, though Mr Briggs 
(father of the present tenant), who died in 1876, aged 94, could 
remember it standing in the field known as the Orchard field ; 
it had a thatched roof. The ‘‘ meal and turfe”’ house still exists, 
with the chambers over. All the indications of the existing 
remains proclaim the Manor House to have been a fair domestic 
dwelling of its time and the groups as well as the fragments of 
the appurtenances now standing—surrounded as they are by 
umbrageous woods and park-like land and pasture—show it to 
have been worthy of the admiration bestowed upon it by the 
escheator, James Massye, and his jury when they, in solemn 
inquiry, met in Blackburn to draw up their report to King James 
on the death of its proprietor, Robert Walmsley, on the 28th of 
August, 1612. 
PENDLETON. 
Continuing our journey northwards we next approach the 
village of Pendleton, a very ancient ville, as in the Dom Boe of 
Saxon times, and in the Domesday Book of the Norman era it, 
with two other Lancashire towns in the Blackburn Hundred finds 
a place, Huncoat, and Walton, being its contemporaries. Had it 
stood a mile beyond the Ribble instead of two miles south of it, 
it would not have been found in the great national registers. For 
150 or 200 yards at right angles with the ‘‘ Hill” the houses are 
built on both sides the road, and through the village runs a 
sparkling stream. Mingled with the homesteads of this pic- 
turesque street there are a few quaint buildings conspicuous. 
The oldest I believe is Cockshutt Farm house, having date 1606, 
while its next door neighbour was built in 1692, as a tablet 
informs us which is situated over the original entrance. Not far 
