SALFORD HUNDRED 



church and a Free Christian church ; this last 

 originated in a change of the views of the Rev. 

 Franklin Howorth, the Unitarian minister. 69 The 

 Salvation Army has a barracks. 



In Bury, as in many other places, the earliest 

 chapel opened by Protestant Nonconformists is now 

 held by Unitarians. Silver Street Chapel was erected 

 in lyig, 70 and the teaching became Arian or 

 Unitarian about 1790, this no doubt leading to 

 the first Congregational meeting above recorded. 

 The old chapel was replaced by another in Silver 

 Street in 1837, and this again having been injured 

 by the construction of the railway, by the present 

 one in Bank Street in 1852." The Unitarians have 

 also a cemetery and mortuary chapel at Hole Bottom. 



The followers of Joanna Southcote had a meeting- 

 room in Bury in 1829." The Swedenborgians 

 opened a New Jerusalem chapel in 1 860, but it has 

 been abandoned. 



The Roman Catholic church of Our Blessed Lady 

 was built in 1842," and St. Joseph's in 1871. 



ELTON 



Elton, 1275. 



This L-shaped township stretches westward from 

 Bury for about 3 miles, and northward for z\ miles, 

 and has an area of 2,553 ac 1 " 68 - 1 The part near Bury 

 has long been urban, and indistinguishable from Bury 

 proper except by the Irwell's course. The surface in 

 the western limb rises gradually till 800 ft. is attained 

 in the north-west corner at Bowstone Hill ; in this 

 portion are Elton proper and Walshaw Lane. The 

 northern limb, bounded on the east by the Irwell, 

 also rises to the west, over 400 ft. being attained ; 

 this portion contains Brandlesholme in the centre, 

 with Woodhill to the south and Summerseat to the 

 north. The population of the registration district 

 was 13,997 in 1901. 



BURY 



From Bury Bridge the roads spread out to the north, 

 north-west, west, and south-west, to Haslingden, 

 Blackburn, and Bolton. The Lancashire and York- 

 shire Company's Bolton and Bury line crosses the 

 south-eastern corner. The Bury and Bolton Canal, 

 opened in 1796, starts in this township near Bury 

 Bridge, and proceeds along the western bank of the 

 Irwell ; there is a large reservoir for it on the border 

 of Elton and Radcliffe. 



In 1666 there were seventy-five hearths to con- 

 tribute to the tax, including Thomas Greenhalgh's 

 house with twelve, Thomas Symonds's, six, and Roger 

 Kay's of Woodhill, six.' 



The cotton manufacture is the chief industry, with 

 bleaching and dyeing ; there are iron-foundries and 

 paper-works. 



The Wellington Barracks are the ddp6t of the 

 2Oth Regimental District Lancashire Fusiliers. 



The recreation ground was the gift of Mr. Henry 

 Whitehead of Haslem Hey. 



Elton has now disappeared as a township, the greater 

 part having been added to the borough of Bury, but 

 part to Ainsworth and other townships.* 



There does not appear to have been 

 MANORS any manor of ELTON, although in the 

 1 3th century a family occurs bearing the 

 local surname.* Elton was considered a hamlet of 

 Bury, and its manorial history is involved in the 

 latter's. 5 



The estate of BRANDLESHOLME in Elton, 

 however, was called a manor. Its early possessors 6 

 gave way to the Greenhalghs, who retained it till 

 the beginning of the i8th century. But little is 

 known of this family, who are said to have sprung up 

 in Tottington, 7 until the i6th century. Henry de 

 Greenhalgh and Alice his wife made settlements of 

 their estate in Bury and Tottington in 1397 and 

 1398." Thomas Greenhalgh died at Brandlesholme 



89 Lanes. Noneon. iii, 182, 183 ; he 

 became a Trinitarian. 



< The expenses of the building are 

 given in Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxxi, 

 fol. 436. 



71 Nightingale, op. cit. iii, 178-84. 



72 J. Butterworth, Bury (reprint, 1902), 

 II. 



78 There was, however, a chapel about 

 1829; ibid. 'In 1821 there were not 

 more than five Catholic families in the 

 town, when mass was said once a month 

 in the upper room of a wool warehouse. 

 In 1834 the first resident priest was ap- 

 pointed ' ; Kelly, Engl. Cath, Mission, 1 1 1. 



1 2,079, including 77 of inland water ; 

 Census Rep. 1901. 



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



8 The final change was made in 1894 ; 

 Local Govt. Bd. Order 31671. 



4 Alexander de Elton and Richard his 

 son were defendants to a claim made by 

 Adam de Bury in 1278 ; it was shown 

 that Adam was never in seisin of the 

 tenement in dispute; Assize R. 1238, 

 m. 32. 



5 Elton Carr is named in a Pilkington 

 feoffment of 1435 ; Raines MSS. (Chet. 

 Lib.), xxxviii, fol. 9. 



6 The name appears to be BrandulPs 

 holme. Gilbert son of Brandulf and 

 Matthew his brother were in 1253-4 

 among a number of Bury people who had 

 evaded the suits of mill claimed by Adam 

 de Bury; Curia Regis R. 154, m. i6d., 

 17. John son of Richard de Brandles- 

 holme (?) had a grant of fruits at the 



Rhodes in 1281; Harl. MS. 2112, 

 fol. 155/191- 



Henry de Hull and Margaret his wife 

 claimed messuages and lands in * Brandol- 

 festone' in 1305 against Richard, son of 

 Juliana, daughter of Richard de Brandies- 

 holme ; De Banco R. 154, m. 146 d. 



Richard son of Henry del Hill in 1343 

 gave all his land in Cecilyhalgh and 

 Woodridding in the hamlet of Brandies- 

 holme in the vill of Bury to Henry de 

 Bury ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 847. 



7 They were the hereditary bailiffs ; 

 Whitaker, Whalley, i, 327. 



Maud de Greenhalgh contributed to 

 the subsidy in Tottington in 1332 ; Excb. 

 Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 



37- 



John de Greenhalgh, Serjeant of Tot- 

 tington, occurs in 1351 and later in the 

 disputes concerning the succession to Sir 

 Henry de Bury's manor and lands ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Assize R. I, m. 7 d. ; R. 4, 

 m. 28 d. John de Greenhalgh was 

 wounded at Bury in 1343 by John de 

 Buckden ; Assize R. 430, m. 16. 



The surname has a great variety of 

 spellings Grenehalgh, Greneholl, Gren- 

 oll, Greenall, Greenhaugh, Greenhough, 

 Greenough, &c. It is probably de- 

 rived from some place in Tottington, 

 as stated in the pedigree recorded in 

 1664. Another branch of the family 

 had lands in Tottington, as will appear 

 later. 



8 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iii, 50, 52. The estate consisted 



33 



of three messuages, 48 acres of (arable) 

 land, &c., in Bury and Tottington ; the 

 remainders were to John and to Geoffrey, 

 sons of Henry and Alice ; to Alice and 

 Margery, daughters of Thomas son of 

 Thomas de Barlow (in moieties), and to 

 John son of William de Elton ; and to the 

 right heirs of Alice the wife of Henry. 



Henry de Greenhalgh and Alice his 

 wife in 1401 unsuccessfully claimed the 

 guardianship of the heir of Robert del 

 Holt, Robert's wife having been Alice 

 daughter of Alice by a former husband, 

 Thomas de Barlow. John, the son of 

 Henry and Alice, is named ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. i, m. 24^. Henry was a juror in 

 1387 and 1394 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. 

 Soc.), i, 27, 49. Robert de Greenhalgh 

 occurs similarly in 1406 ; ibid, i, 88. 



Geoffrey de Greenhalgh, aged forty, was 

 a witness to the age of John de Radcliffe 

 of Chadderton in 1415 ; Lanes. Rec. Inq. 

 p.m. no. 19, 20. James son of Geoffrey 

 de Greenhalgh the elder was interested 

 in the succession to lands in Moston in 

 1427 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.) ii, 

 18 ; while in 1419 James the son 

 and heir of Geoffrey de Greenhalgh 

 no doubt the same person had claimed 

 lands in Bury, with appurtenances at 

 Blackburn (perhaps in Tottington), and 

 obtained an Inspeximus of the record in 

 1444-5 5 Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 538. 



In 1425 the trustees of James sons of 

 Geoffrey Greenhalgh granted him lands 

 in Horwich with successive remainders 

 as follows : To John son of Henry 



