A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



was pulled down in February 1909, the inscribed 

 stone above referred to being placed in the Bury 

 Museum. 



Somerset, now Summerseat, was held by the Raw- 

 stornes under the lord of Brandlesholme. 88 



Woodhill was long the residence of a family named 

 Kay. 54 Roger Kay, the refounder of the grammar 

 school, was of this family. 343 



The principal landowners in 1789 were : Powell 

 for Brandlesholme, Peel for Chamber Hall, Richard 

 Bridge, Mrs. Nuttall for Woodhill, and Mrs. Johnson 

 for Seddon's." 



In connexion with the Established Church, All Saints' 

 was built in 1843, and had a separate district assigned 

 to it in I844- 36 St. Stephen's, built in 1881, had a 

 district assigned to it three years later. 37 The patron- 

 age of these churches is vested in the rector of Bury 

 and the vicar of All Saints' respectively. Christ 

 Church, Walshaw Lane, was built in 1892 as a 

 memorial to Jesse Haworth of Walshaw Mill, who 

 died in 1897, by his sister Miss Nancy Haworth and 

 his nephew the Rev. John Gorell Haworth. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have two churches in 

 Elton ; the United Methodist Church one ; and 

 the Primitive Methodists also one, built in I868. 38 



For Roman Catholics the school-chapel of Our 

 Lady of Good Counsel and the Guardian Angels was 

 built in 1886, and a church in 1892. 



HEAP 



Hepe, 1278 ; Hewood, 1292. 



The greater part of the township of Heap lies on 

 the south bank of the Roch, and has a detached 

 portion, called Whittle, between Pilsworth, Uns- 

 worth, and Middleton ; but there is also a consider- 

 able area to the north of the stream, containing 

 Little Bridge, Bridge Hall, and Broad Oak on the 



west, and part of Bamford with Jowkin and Meadow- 

 croft on the east. There are several detached portions,, 

 due probably to a division of the wastes between 

 Heap on the one side and Birtle on the other. The 

 area of the whole is 2,938^ acres. 1 The population 

 of the borough of Hey wood in 1901 was 25,458. 



The principal road is that eastward from Bury 

 across the Roch at Heap Bridge, through Charles- 

 town and Heady Hill, 2 and the town of Heywood,. 

 where it divides, to Rochdale on the north-west and 

 Middleton on the south. Another road from Bury 

 to Rochdale keeps on the northern side of the Roch, 

 and is joined by a cross road from Heywood through 

 Hooley Bridge. 3 



At Heywood all branches of cotton spinning 

 and manufacture are carried on, and there are iron 

 and brass foundries, saw mills, boiler and wagon 

 works ; power looms are made. At Heap Bridge 

 there are great paper mills, and woollen and cotton 

 mills. 



An urn containing a large number of Roman coins 

 was found at Plumpton House near Hooley Bridge in 

 I856. 4 



There were 126 hearths liable to the tax in 1666. 

 The largest dwellings were those of Robert Heywood 

 (with nine hearths), Roger Holt (seven), and William 

 Bamford (six). 5 



Heap has disappeared as a township ; the borough 

 of Heywood has taken the larger part within it, and 

 other parts have been added to the neighbouring 

 townships. 6 



The manorial history of Heap is in- 

 M4NORS volved with that of Bury, but there are 

 some estates in the hamlet or township 

 which appear to have been considered as manors. 7 



BRIDGE H4LL, on the north bank of the Roch, 8 

 where the road from Bury to Heywood and Middle- 

 ton crossed the stream, was long held by a branch 



88 Thurstan Rawstorne in 1583 had two 

 messuages and land in Elton, which he 

 sold or mortgaged to Thomas Warburton ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 45, m. 58. 

 He was a juror in 1 604 ; Lanes. Jnq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ch.es.), i, 28. 



Children of William Rawstorne of Sum- 

 merseat occur in the Bury Registers, 

 1610 to 1616, and he was buried 8 Dec. 

 1618. He also occurs as a juror. 



Lawrence Rawsthorne of Summerseat 

 died early in 1630.; administration of his 

 effects was granted to his widow Ellen ; 

 Will* (Chet. Soc. new ser.), i, 239. 



Thurstan Rawstorne, gentleman, died 

 at Summerseat i Dec. 1634, holding 

 three messuages, &c., in Elton of John 

 Greenhalgh of Brandlesholme by the 

 twentieth part of a knight's fee and a 

 yearly rent of \d. Ellen his daughter and 

 heir wa seven years of age. Ellen his 

 widow lived at Bolton ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xxviii, no. 38. 



A right of way over Summerseat was 

 claimed by Thomas Greenhalgh in 1576 

 against Thurstan Rawstorne and Lawrence 

 Bury ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 



43- 



The Old Hall, Summerseat, was about 

 a century ago the residence of Christopher 

 Roberts, an inventor and mathematician ; 

 ' in his disposition calm and philosophical 

 he kept aloof from the pursuit of wealth, 

 and died, as he had lived, blameless.' He 

 was a Swedenborgian ; Barton, Bury, 245. 



84 The name occurs constantly in the 

 Bury Registers. The will of Roger Kay 



of 'Wyddall,' dated 1563, mentions his 

 son Arthur ; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xvi, fol. 383. Susan daughter of Richard 

 Kay of ' Widdell ' in 1724 married Robert 

 Unsworth of Elton ; ibid, xxxi, 290. 



843 Roger was the son of Roger Kay, 

 husbandman, of Bury, and entered St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, in 1684, as 

 sizar attending on John the son of Thomas 

 Greenhalgh, who was at the same time 

 admitted as a fellow-commoner ; Admis- 

 sions St. John's Col. ii, 97. He became 

 fellow of the college (1689-92), rector of 

 Fittleton and prebendary of Sarum, and 

 died in 1731 ; Baker, Hist. St. John's 

 Col. (ed. Mayor), i, 300, 301; Le Neve, 

 Fasti, iii, 666, 669. In 1726 he en- 

 dowed the grammar school of Bury with 

 Chadwick Hall and other estates in Spot- 

 land, a rent-charge on Ewood Hall in 

 Haslingden, &c. ; and by his will of 1729 

 left Ewood and other lands to his nephew 

 Roger Kay ; the Warth in RadclifFe to his 

 niece Rachel, wife of Richard Allen, 

 surgeon ; his other nieces were Dorothy 

 Sudell, widow, and Susan wife of Roger 

 Kay of Widdall; Char. Rep. of 1828, 

 xix, 217,221. 



From the Bury Registers it appears that 

 Roger Kay of Widdall had sons Richard 

 and Roger, born in 1650 and 1663 re- 

 spectively ; the latter is the benefac- 

 tor. Richard Kay of Widdall had a son 

 Roger, born in 1692, who is the nephew 

 referred to. 



88 Land tax returns at Preston. 



86 Lond. Gam. 23 Feb. 1844; for en- 



136 



dowments, ibid. 3 May 1844 and 10 Aug. 

 1866. The site was known as Goose 

 Hill Bank. 



8 ? The schools were erected in 1870. 



88 Barton, Bury, 204. 



1 The area of Heywood in 1901 was 

 3,660 acres, including 51 of inland water, 

 according to the Census Rep. 



8 Here was the old district or hamlet 

 of Lumhalghs or Lomax. 



8 For the mill at this place, stopped in 

 1 86 1 through disputes in the Fenton 

 family, see Heywood N. and Q. (ed. 

 J. A. Green), i, 37. This publication 

 gathers up a number of notes about per- 

 sons and places in the district. 



4 Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. ix, 166. 



6 Subsidy R. bdle. 250, no. 9 Lanes. 



8 Under the Divided Parishes Act, 1882, 

 Diggles was transferred from Heap to 

 Birtle-cum-Bamford. The final change 

 was made in 1894 by Local Govt. Bd. 

 Order 31671 ; Heap is now divided be- 

 tween Heywood, Bury, Birtle-with-Bam- 

 ford, and Unsworth. 



7 Heap as a surname occurs, but the 

 connexion of the family with the place is 

 not known. 



8 In 1278 William son of William del 

 Bridge successfully claimed a messuage 

 and an oxgang of land in Bury against 

 Adam de Bury, Henry son of Cecily de 

 Heap, and others. Roger de Bolton was 

 the plaintiffs predecessor in title ; Assize 

 R. 1238, m. 31. It is not clear whether 

 or not this was the Bridge family already 

 noticed in Bury proper. 



