SALFORD HUNDRED 



ECCLES 



PENDLEBURY 



Penelbiri, 1201 ; Pennilbure, 1 21 2 ; Pennebire, 

 1226 ; Pennesbyry, 1278 ; Penilburi, 1300 ; Penul- 

 bury, 1332 ; Penhulbury, 1358 ; Pendulbury, 1561; 

 Pendlebury, 1567. 



Lying on the west bank of the Irwell between 

 Clifton and Pendleton, but with a detached part the 

 ancient Shoresworth to the south of Pendleton, 

 this township has an area of 1,030^ acres. 1 The town 

 proper lies in the north-west part of the district, 

 while Agecroft Hall stands apart upon the Irwell in 

 the north-east corner. The surface of the land slopes 

 generally from west to east, from nearly 300 ft. to 

 about 1 20 ft. above the ordnance datum. The popu- 

 lation in 1901 was 8,493. 



The principal road is that from Manchester to 

 Bolton, from which the ancient Wigan road parts 

 company near the southern boundary ; a cross road 

 leads through Agecroft by a bridge over the Irwell to 

 Prestwich, and near the bridge another road from 

 Manchester joins it. The Lancashire and Yorkshire 

 Company's line from Manchester to Bolton runs 

 north-westward, and that from Manchester to Hindley 

 also crosses the township, and has two stations 

 Irlams-o'-th'-Height and Pendlebury. The former 

 nearly follows the line of a fault which brings up the 

 Coal Measures to the west, leaving the New Red Sand- 

 stone in evidence to the east. The Manchester and 

 Bolton Canal runs along the easterly side of the for- 

 mer line, between it and the River Irwell. 



There were thirty-five hearths liable to the tax in 

 1 666. Agecroft Hall was the only large house, having 

 eleven hearths. 1 



The manufacture and printing of cottons have long 

 been the principal industries. 



Pendlebury was joined with Swinton in 1875 to 

 form a local board district ; it is now governed by 



the Swinton and Pendlebury Urban District Council. 8 

 The Public Hall was built in 1870. The detached 

 portion of the township was, with Pendleton, included 

 in the borough of Salford in 1852. One of the 

 Salford cemeteries is at Agecroft and another at New 

 Barns. The great children's hospital on the south- 

 west side was erected in 1873. 



An ancient Campfield exists in the detached part of 

 Pendlebury near Salford ; and a neolithic hammer 

 axe was found at Mode Wheel in the excavations for 

 the Manchester Ship Canal. 4 



The manors of PENDLEBURr and 

 MANORS SHORESWORTH were in 1212 held of 

 the king in chief in thegnage by a rent 

 of 1 2/. s The tenant was Ellis son of Robert de Pen- 

 dlebury, to whom King John had granted Pendlebury 

 while he was Count of Mortain, confirming or renew- 

 ing the grant when he obtained the throne. 6 Ellis 

 was also master serjeant of the wapentake of Salford, 

 and this office, like the manor, was to descend to his 

 heirs. 7 Ellis was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey. 8 

 He died in or about 1216, and his son Adam suc- 

 ceeded him in his manors and serjeanty.' But little 

 is known of him, and his son Roger appears to have 

 been in possession in 1246 and 1254.' He also was 

 a benefactor of Cockersand. 11 At this stage of the 

 descent there is some difficulty. In 1274 Ellis son 

 of Roger came to a violent death," and Amabel, as 

 widow of Ellis son of Roger the Clerk, claimed 

 dower in various lands against Roger de Pendle- 

 bury. 13 Again, a short time afterwards, Amabel hav- 

 ing received her dower, she and Roger de Pendle- 

 bury had to defend a suit brought by one Adam de 

 Pendlebury, who satisfied the jury of his title to the 

 manor. 14 



Ellis had a brother William and daughters Maud, 

 Lettice, and Beatrice. Maud married Adam son of 

 Alexander de Pilkington, and had a daughter Cecily." 



1 This includes the detached part, now 

 included in Pendleton. The census report 

 of 1901 gives only 866 acres, including 

 36 of inland water, for the reduced town- 

 ship. 



* Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 

 8 See Worsley. 



4 Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. x, 251. 



* Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 68. Pendlebury 

 was assessed as one plough-land, and 

 Shoresworth as an oxgang ; the separate 

 rent of the former was ICM. 



6 Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 26. This 

 grant is among the Agecroft D. (no. i). It 

 concerns Pendlebury only, one plough- 

 land ' in free thegnage by the free service 

 of 10$. yearly.' Ellis de Pendlebury's 

 other lands, as shown by the survey of 

 1 21 2, were Shoresworth (i oxgang}, Hope 

 in Pendleton (2 oxgangs), and Snydale in 

 Westhoughton ( ? i oxgang) ; Lanes. Inq. 

 And Extents, i, 68, 65, 58. He also had 

 lands in Westhoughton, which went to 

 Thomas, a younger son. Robert de Pen- 

 dlebury, probably the father of Ellis, raised 

 a dyke in Westhoughton ; Cockersand 

 Chart. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 679. 



7 Chart, R. 27. Ellis is mentioned in 

 the Pipe Rolls down to 1208 ; Farrer, 

 Lanes. Fife R. 151, 232, &c. 



8 Cockersand Chart, ii, 688 grant of 

 Priestscroft in Westhoughton. 



9 Ellis de Pendlebury and Adam his son 

 were witnesses to a grant by Gilbert de 

 Notton and Edith his wife ; Wballey 



Couch. (Chet. Soc.), i, 47. Adam de 

 Pendlebury is named in 1216 ; Rot. Lit. 

 Claus. (Rec. Com.), 251. He succeeded 

 his father as serjeant of Salfordshire in 

 1218 (ibid. 366) ; but this office had been 

 lost by 1222 ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents , i, 

 133. In October 1219 the king ordered 

 livery to Adam, who had done homage, 

 of the lands his father Ellis had held, viz., 

 a plough-land in Pendlebury and the fourth 

 part of an oxgang in Shoresworth ; Fine 

 R. Excerpts, i, 38. 'The farm of the land 

 of Adam de Pendlebury in Pendlebury,' 

 i CM., occurs in 1226, but Adam may have 

 been dead ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, \, 137. 



10 Roger is mentioned in Assize R. 404, 

 m. I ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, \, 193 ; 

 Cockersand Chartul. ii, 676. He granted 

 land in Westhoughton to Richard son of 

 Geoffrey de Byron, held about 1244 by 

 Geoffrey and by Thomas, brothers of 

 Richard ; Whalley Couch. \, 66, 62. 



11 He gave all his land in Westhoughton; 

 Cockersand Chartul. ii, 677. 



12 Cal. Close, 1272-9, p. 97. 



18 De Banco R. 5, m. 102. It seems 

 probable that Roger the Clerk was Roger 

 the son of Adam de Pendlebury, while 

 the defendant Roger was a trustee for 

 the daughters of Ellis. Amabel's claim was 

 for the third part of 1 1 oxgangs, 1 6 acres 

 of land, two-thirds of an oxgang, the half 

 of two mills, and two-thirds of one mill 

 with appurtenances in Pendlebury, Pen- 

 dleton, Whittleswick, and Halliwell. At 

 the same time she sought dower in 26 



397 



acres in Clifton, the holder being Alice 

 daughter of William the Clerk of Eccles. 



Roger de Pendlebury granted Whittles- 

 wick to his son Ellis, and the latter 

 regranted it to his father ; DeTrafford D. 

 no. 276, 278. This Roger seems to be 

 the clerk ' of Amabel's plea. The Clerk* 

 of Eccles appear here as in Whittleswick. 



Among the Holland of Denton deeds 

 are some further illustrations of the pedi- 

 gree. Thus William son of Roger de 

 Pendlebury made a grant in Sharpies of 

 lands which should come to him after the 

 death of his brother Ellis's daughter Maud; 

 Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 145^/181*. Lettice 

 and Beatrice, other daughters, also occur ; 

 ibid. fols. 160/71966, 1456/1814. 



14 Assize R. 1238 (6 Edw. I), m. 31 d. 

 It was ordered that Amabel should receive 

 equivalent land for dower from Roger. 

 Drailesden, the Mill ridding, and half of a 

 mill were excepted from the disseisin by 

 Roger. 



15 From pleas relating to Whittleswick, 

 cited by Mr. Bird in the Ancestor, pt. iv, 

 211, it appears that Maud daughter and 

 heir of Ellis recovered land, &c., there in 

 1284; Assize R. 1265, m. 21 d. She 

 was dead in 1291, when William de Pen- 

 dlebury, as uncle and heir, claimed it from 

 Adam de Pilkington, who said he had an 

 estate for life because his wife Maud had 

 borne him a daughter Cecily. William 

 asserted that the child was stillborn, but 

 the jury found that she lived a short time 

 and was baptized ; Assize R. 1294, m. 8 d. 



