AN ACCOUNT 
OF THE OPENING OF AN ANCIENT BARROW, 
CALLED 
CASTLE HILL, 
NEWTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, 
IN THE 
COUNTY OF LANCASTER. 
BY THE REV. EDMUND SIBSON, 
Minister of Ashton-in-Makerfield. 
(Read October 17th, 1843.) 
MR. BAINES’ ACCOUNT OF CASTLE HILL. 
Mr. Baines, in his History of the County of 
Lancaster, gives the following description of 
Castle hill :— 
“ At the distance of half a mile from, and to 
“the north of Newton, stands an ancient barrow, 
“called Castle hill. It is romantically situated, on 
“elevated ground, at the junction of two streams, 
‘‘whose united waters form the brook, which flows 
“past the lower part of the town of Newton. The 
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