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a daughter of John Hoghton, of Pendleton Hall, and though his 
bride was brought to a home less pretentious than that of her 
birth, yet it had its advantages on account of its brighter, warmer, 
and more pleasant vicinity. Being situated on the limestone 
which here crops up above the millstone grit of Pendle, it fostered 
a lovelier flora and sweeter herbage than the clayey soil on which 
her parental home was built. In front of the Hall, facing the 
south-west, the ground slopes upwards in soft undulations, tree 
and verdure clad, and forms one of the prettiest and quietest 
rural prospects within the shadow of Pendle. 
