A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



was built in i877. 60 There is a small chapel at Rain- 

 sough. The Primitive Methodists began services in 

 a cottage at Kirkhams, and have since erected an iron 

 chapel ; the first minister was appointed in iSgj. 61 



The Congregational Church, Rooden Lane, origi- 

 nated in anight school begun in 1862. TheChetham 

 Hill church took the work up ; a school-chapel was 

 opened in 1865, and the present church in i88i. M 



The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Grace 

 was opened in 1891. Mass had been said for two 

 years previously in the Co-operative Hall. 63 



There is a Jewish cemetery, opened in 1 84-O. 64 



GREAT AND LITTLE HEATON 



Heton, 1212 usual; Heiton, 1226; Hetun, 

 Heethon, c. 1250 ; Heetun, 1319 ; Hoi ton, Hoton, 

 1331-2 ; Hey ton, 1447 ; Heaton (xvi cent.). 



Faefeld, c. 1280 ; Faghefeld, 1331 ; Faufeld, 1344; 

 Fawfeld, 1368 ; Falefelde, 1447 ; Faughfyld, 1586 ; 

 Fallowfield, modern. Pronounced Fawfield. 



These townships, mostly on high ground, which 

 slopes away to the south-east to the River Irk, have 

 areas respectively of 875 and 532 acres. Great 

 Heaton has two detached portions lying on the 

 border of Middleton, and Little Heaton has a small 

 isolated part, occupying the extreme north-east corner 

 of the townships. Formerly the district was called 

 Faghfield, and the places were Heaton upon Fagh- 

 field, but in time the present Great Heaton became 

 known as Over Heaton or Heaton Reddish, from the 

 lords of the manor, while Little Heaton was called 

 Heaton Fallowfield. The population in 1901 was 

 not returned separately, but partly with Prestwich and 

 partly with Middleton. 



The surface is undulating, varying from 200 ft. 

 to 350 ft. above sea level. The most prominent 

 feature is the large park around Heaton House, now 

 the property of Manchester. The chief road is that 

 from the north of Manchester to Middleton, along 

 the right bank of the Irk. From it roads branch off, 

 making a circuit of the park, and another great high- 



way leads to Heywood. The Lancashire and York- 

 shire Company's railway from Manchester to Bury 

 passes through the southern corner of Great Heaton, 

 mostly by a tunnel under the park. 



The townships have ceased to exist as such. 

 In 1894 the greater part of the area was added to 

 Prestwich for purposes of local government ; the 

 small urban district on the east, known as Rhodes, 

 together with the detached portion of Little Heaton 

 above mentioned, were taken into the borough of 

 Middleton. 1 A further change was made in 1901, 

 Heaton Park being added to Manchester, on its 

 purchase by the Corporation. 



Fifty years ago silk-weaving gave prosperity to the 

 villages of Simister and Bow Lee, but th industry 

 has long been extinct.* 



There is a well called the Danes' Well in Simister 

 in Little Hulton. 8 A place called Clark's Cross is 

 on the highest ground, 350 ft., in Corday Lane in 

 Great Heaton. A curious inn sign, 'The Same Yet,' 

 was noticeable at Great Heaton. 4 



In 1666 there were fifty hearths in Heaton liable 

 to the tax ; William Holland's house had thirteen, 

 and Edmund Hey wood's six. In Heaton Fallowfield, 

 out of thirty-five hearths in all James Pilkington's 

 house had six. 5 



Heaton, held in thegnage of the king, 

 MANORS had before 1212 become divided into 

 two portions, held by different families 

 at different rents. One moiety, GREAT HEATON t 

 as 4 oxgangs of land, was then held by Adam de 

 Prestwich, and of him by Adam de Heaton, by a rent of 

 io/. The other moiety, LITTLE HEATON, also 

 4 oxgangs, was held by William de Radcliffe, and 

 of him by Gilbert de Notion, of Barton, by a rent of 

 6/. SJ. 6 



It is difficult to trace the descent of these separate 

 portions. Of the Prestwich moiety 7 one portion 

 seems to have been acquired by the Hultons, 8 and thus 

 passed to the Reddish family, being held by a rent of 

 6s. 8</. ; 9 the other 3/. \d. may have been due from 

 Rooden Lane in Prestwich, which seems anciently 



60 Nicholls, Preifwich, 122. 



Ibid. 124. 



82 Ibid. 125 ; Nightingale, Lanes. Non- 

 tonf. v, 26-7. 



Nicholls, op. cit. 128 ; Kelly, Engl. 

 Cath. Missions, 323. 



M Nicholls, loc. cit. 



1 Local Govt. Bd. Orders, 31625, 

 32103. 



3 Nicholls, Prestwich, 55. 

 8 Ibid. 147. 



4 Pal. Note Bk. iii, 260. 



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



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

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 87. 



^ Thomas, lord of Prestwich, granted 

 to Joan his daughter, about 1 260, half of 

 Heaton, formerly held by Thomas son of 

 Alexander ; Harl. MS. 21 12, fol. 148/1 84. 

 In 1 346 Richard Radcliffe, then in posses- 

 sion of the Prestwich manors, held ' Prest- 

 wich' by a rent of 20*., &c. The rent 

 shows that Prestwich included Heaton. 



In 1325 it was found that Joan, wife of 

 William de Holland and later of William 

 de Multon, held the third part of a mes- 

 suage and lands, and ros. rent, in Heaton 

 near Fallowfield, of Alice widow of Adam 

 de Prestwich by the service of the third 

 part of 2s. ; Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. II, no. 96. 

 Hugh the chaplain, brother and heir of 



Thomas de Heaton, granted to William 

 de Holland in 1309 all his manor of 

 Heaton, together with the service of John 

 son of Adam de Prestwich ; Harl. MS. 

 21 1 2, fol. 148/184. 



Heaton is not mentioned in the later 

 Langley inquisitions. 



8 In 1301 Richard son of David de 

 Hulton brought an action concerning dis- 

 seisin of 4 oxgangs of land in Over Hea- 

 ton against Richard de Hulton the elder 

 (brother of David), Richard and John his 

 sons, Adam de Radcliffe, and William and 

 Thomas sons of Thomas de Urmston ; 

 the plaintiff claimed under a charter of 

 his uncle Richard, who denied that it was 

 genuine; Assize R. 418, m. 5. At the 

 same time Agnes, David's widow, claimed 

 dower in certain messuages and lands in 

 Over Heaton, which were held by Richard 

 de Hulton, senr. ; ibid. m. I. 



In 1331 Richard son of Richard de 

 Hulton of Reddish claimed the manor of 

 Heaton super Fallowfield against William 

 son of Richard de Hulton ; De Banco R. 

 287, m. 236 d. In a further pleading 

 the plaintiff, who recovered, stated that 

 Richard son of David de Hulton had 

 granted the manor to his brother David, 

 with remainder to Richard brother of 

 David ; and as David died without issue, 



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it should descend to Richard son of Richard; 

 De Banco R. 294, m. 242 d. Richard son 

 of Richard de Hulton [of Hulton] was 

 fined for opposing. 



Richard de Reddish held five messuages, 

 100 acres of land, &c., in Heaton, for- 

 merly part of the estate of Richard de 

 Hulton of Ordsall ; Assize R. 1435, m - 

 40. 



9 The township was called Heaton 

 Reddish in 1522 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 144. 



Richard de Reddish died in 1404 seised 

 of the manor of Heaton on Fallowfield, 

 held of the king in chief by knight's ser- 

 vice and a rent of 6s. %d. ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 80. In 1522 the 

 tenure was called socage, the rent being 

 6s. 8./. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 48. 

 This statement was repeated in 1559, 

 when the manor was called Over Heaton 

 on Fallowfield ; ibid, xi, 60. 



In 1613, however, the rent due from 

 the Reddish estate (not called a manor) in 

 Heaton was id. only ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 253. By 

 this time probably the main part of their 

 inheritance had passed to the Hollands. 

 It appears from the inquisition after the 

 death of Sarah Coke in 1630 that lands in 

 Crumpsall and Heaton Fallowfield, known 



