Chap. 5.] TOPOGRAPHY AND AGEICULTURE. 121 



"A woman in white, the spirit of one that was said to have been 

 murdered, was to be seen at ' Daniel Plot.' "' 



"At Walton Fold was a demon who committed many strange 

 vagaries until ' laid' by a priest, the Eev. Jas. Fisher." 



"Hollins Hall (Holly Hall, vide Ordnance Map), a house and 

 tannery on the base of Tootel Height. The writer remembers going 

 forty years ago (1830) to Hollins Hall, a moderate sized farm house, 

 to see the spirit's domicile." 



There is some very good grazing land in Longridge, the value of the 

 best being about £3 to £4 per acre per annum. 



The chief landowners are : — Frederick Openshaw, Esq., J.P., 

 Hothersall Hall, 1,216 acres; John Mercer, Esq., J.P., Alston Hall, 

 482 acres; the late Thos. Whittaker, Esq., J.P., Moon's Mill, 318 

 acres; Mr. John Smith, Duxon Dean, 161 acres; Colonel Bickerstalie, 

 London, 114 acres; Robert Smith, Esq., J.P., Dilworth House, 110 

 acres. Wm. Cross, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, nephew of Lord 

 Cross, is Lord of the Manor, and annually holds his Coui-t Leet at 

 Longridge. 



This Court Leet or Bai on empannels a jury, and issues its decrees 

 in due form. I have one of these decrees in my possession. Its 

 perusal may interest my readers : — 

 The Makor of Alston, with its Members in the County op Lancaster. 



At the Court Baron of William Assheton Cross, Esq., Lord of the Manor afore- 

 said, holden at the House of Margaret Winder, innkeeper, within the said Manor, 

 on Tuesday, the Uth day of June inst., the Jury were of opinion and found and 

 ordered that seeing that you had rendered the road to Mr. 's property im- 

 passable by reason of your haring removed by quarrying the stone forming part of 

 the road, you should construct a Bridge over your quarry on to the property of Mr. 

 , to enable that gentleman to get on to his property with carts and carriages. 



As Steward, I have to request that the above finding and order of the Court may 



be complied with at once. 



^ JOS. B. DICKSON. 



To Mr. 12th June, 1872. 



Longridge. 



Need I say the above order was not complied with. 



' Now called Daniel Plat. 



