Chap. 9.] 



PARISH or GEIMSARGH. 215 



Red Scak. 



Eed Scar is most charmingly situated on the banks of the Eibble. 

 The river, in its course from Eibchester to Preston, takes a sweep to 

 the north-west, and then, after flowing for nearly a mile, takes a sweep 

 to the south-east, thus forming the shape of a horse-shoe 



The house is built in the late Jacobean style of architectuie. When 

 the late Colonel Cross was alive there were two observatories in the 

 grounds, for that gentleman was no mean astronomer. Wm. Cross, 

 Esq "ttV owner of the estate, has lately let the house to W. Leventon, 



^^' Higher Beockholes Hall. 



Higher Brockholes Hall was the abode of a family of some distinction 

 among the Lancasliire gentry. It is in rather a dilapidated state bu 

 you cin still form some idea of its former stately proportions. On the 

 front of the hall is carved the foUowing :— 



E. 

 E. A. 



1643. 

 The initials are those of Eichard and Ann Elston. The Elston family 

 occupSl Higher Brockholes Hall from 1387 to 1662, from whom it 

 passed into the hands of th. Moreaus, and then to the Wmckleys, la 

 in whose possession it remained tiU lately.' 



Lower Brockholes Hall. 

 Lower Brockholes Hall is of even greater antiquity than Higher 

 Brocklioles Hall. It bears the armorial bearings and the initials 

 E S o7its builder, and the date of its erection 1634. Baines 

 Bays "Over the principal door are carved in stone the arms of the 

 Bro^tholesos in 1 relievo, three bucks [brocks] or badgers." But, 

 TcLdms to Mr. W. Dobson, Baines must have been wrongly informed, 

 Tthrfrms are not those of the Brockholes family at all. They are 

 the arms of Francis Bindloss, son of Sir Francis Bindloss. 



Eo a time Lower Brockholes HaU was theseat of *« B-ckholeses 

 then of the Singletons tiU 1564, by whom it was sold to Sir John 

 Southworth, of^Samlesbury. Edmund Breres, of Preston, was the 



.I„the^a«u«ceXanc,...-..«.apedi. ^^:^J ^^ obUged to omit fro. 



gree of the Elstons is given from 1371- want o£ space. 



