A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Hollinwood, 61 Hathershaw, 6 * and other lands in the 

 southern part of Werneth have left no trace in the 

 records. Hathershaw Hall is a long low two-story 

 stone building dating from the end of the 1 6th 

 century, but with its eastern end rebuilt a century 

 later, and what remains is probably but a fragment. 

 It is divided into five cottages, and stands back from 

 the road, facing south with an open space in front, in 

 the midst of mills and small house property. The 

 older portion is about 54 ft. in length with a slightly 

 projecting wing at the west end, and is described as 



OLD PLAN OF OLDHAM 



having quite gone to decay in l826. 63 There have 

 been sufficient repairs since to keep the building 

 habitable, but nearly all trace of its original appearance 

 has gone. There is a built-up stone doorway with 

 a moulded head at one end, and a three-light stone 

 mullioned window on the first floor at the other, but 

 all the other windows are modern, and the building is 

 of little or no architectural interest. The east end 

 appears to have been rebuilt in 1 694,** and is loftier 

 than the older part, with quoins at the angles and 

 square-headed two-light windows with centre mullion 

 and transom. The win- 

 dows are of good design, 

 3 ft. 6 in. wide, and 5 ft. 

 9 in. high, with double 

 chamfered heads and 

 jambs, and placed with an 

 almost 18th-century re- 

 gularity. The floor-line 

 is marked by a string- 

 course, below which the 

 walling is of large square- 

 coursed blocks, and above 

 of rough narrow-coursed 

 stones. This portion of 

 the building, which is 

 about 38 ft. long, con- 

 sists of two cottages, in 

 one of which the mul- 

 lions and transoms of the 

 windows have been cut 

 away and modern case- 

 ments inserted. Two of 

 the upper windows are 

 built up, and a new door- 



<\\ ~te Wa y ^ as k een ma de to 

 CAxfce< the second cottage. The 

 roofs of the two portions 

 of the building are of 

 different levels, and are 

 covered with old grey 

 stone slates, with stone 

 ridge tiles. The end ga- 

 bles yet preserve their 

 ball ornaments, though the 

 copings are gone. Some 

 of the old stone orna- 

 ments of the house now 

 lie in front of one of the 

 cottages in a small in- 

 closed garden. 



Clarksfield, on the eas- 

 tern border, was held of 

 the Cudworths by the 

 Ash tons of Ashton-under- 

 Lyne ; it descended to 

 the Booths. 65 It was in 

 1625 purchased by the 



81 Hollinwood was formerly part of 

 Chadderton ; Shaw, Oldham, 253. Hol- 

 linwood Green, Oak, and Lyme House 

 are noticed by E. Butterworth, op. cit. 49, 

 50. 



62 Hathershaw Hall was the residence 

 of the Sandfords in the 1 7th century, of 

 whom Edward Sandiford was a member 

 of the classis in 1646 ; in the next cen- 

 tury it had been acquired by the Side- 

 hottoms, and Alexander Radclyffe Side- 



bottom was the owner in 1856 ; ibid. 

 35. The name is said to be a corruption 

 of Hazleshaw, mentioned above as belong- 

 ing to the Aspenhalghs and Ashtons. 

 Copster Hill, Pauletts, and Hollins are 

 also noticed ; ibid. 51, 52. 

 68 Jas. Butterworth, Oldham. 



64 Lanes, and Chet. Antiq. Soc. viii. 



65 Sir John de Ashton, who died in 

 1428, held a messuage and land called 

 Copthurst ; Lanct. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), 



IOO 



ii, 22. Coppedhurst has been mentioned 

 in a previous note regarding the Tetlow 

 family. In 1507 the same was said to be 

 held of John Cudworth, as cousin and 

 heir of William son of Adam de Oldham, 

 by the service of zs. 6d. and an iron 

 arrow; ibid, ii, 138. The service seems 

 to have been compounded for, and is not 

 mentioned in the inquest after the death 

 of George Booth in 1543 ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. vii, 7. 



