A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The Congregationalists, who thus lost Dundee 

 Chapel, have a new church there and one at Stubbins, 

 built in 1866-7 > a ^ so one at Green Mount, with a 

 lofty tower and spire, built in 1866. The last- 

 named has a mission chapel at Affetside. 78 



The Swedenborgians erected a church at Rams- 

 bottom in 1831 ; this was replaced by another in 

 1876. 



The Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph, Rams- 

 bottom, was built in 1879, replacing one opened in 

 1862 ; the chapel of the Home for Orphans at 

 Tottington is also available for the public. 



MUSBURY 



Musbury, 1329. 



This township, which lies in the hundred of 

 Blackburn, has three portions called Musbury Park, 

 904^ acres, Musden Head, 398^ acres, and the 

 Trippet of Ogden, 4 1 o^ acres ; the total area is 

 nearly 1,713 acres. The northern boundary is 

 formed by Ogden Brook, flowing east and south-east 

 to join the Irwell. From the west and south two 

 spurs of the hills project into the township, called 

 Musbury Heights, 1, 268 ft., and Burnt Hill and Tor 

 Hill. The valley on the northernmost slope is called 

 Ogden, that between the spurs Musbury, the head of 

 it being called Musden Head, and that on the south 

 Alden. Musbury Park is on the southern spur. 



The principal road is that from Bury to Accring- 

 ton, from which another to Blackburn branches off. 

 The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's railway 

 from Bury to Accrington crosses the eastern corner. 



There are several mills beside the Ogden and 

 Alden, and some quarries on the hills. The Ogden 

 Valley contains two reservoirs of the Bury Water- 

 works. 



Musbury has ceased to be a township since 1 894, 

 when the borough of Haslingden was made a civil 

 parish. 1 



A licence for free warren in Tottingtoa 

 PARK was granted to the Earl of Lincoln in izg^, 2 

 and the park at Musbury appears to have 

 been formed shortly afterwards. 3 There is little to 

 be noted of this district, 4 nor does there seem to be 

 any record of the manner in which it became attached 

 to the hundred of Blackburn. Possibly as being a 

 park it was included in the Forest of Rossendale. 5 



The only places of worship in the township are 

 Sion Chapel and another Methodist chapel. 



COWPE, LENCH, NEWHALL HEY, 

 HALL CARR 



Couhope, 1325. 



Lenches (xvii cent.). 



This crescent- shaped township occupies the northern 

 slope of the ridge which divides the hundreds of 

 Blackburn and Salford, being included in the former, 

 though the manor and parish to which it belongs are 

 in the latter. The northern boundary is formed by 

 the Irwell and a tributary stream. Cowpe forms the 

 eastern corner with the hamlet of Boarsgreave ; Lench 

 lies on the north-eastern slope of the hill, opposite 

 Newchurch in Rossendale ; Newhall Hey 6 and Hall 

 Carr occupy the western slope, in which lie the 

 hamlets of Townsend Fold, Wood Top, and Long- 

 holme. The area of the township is 1,499 acres 

 composed as follows: Cowpe 569^, Lench 396, 

 Newhall Hey and Hall Carr 533!- 



The principal and practically the only road is that 

 from Bury to Rawtenstall and Bacup, which runs 

 near the Irwell on the north-western side of the 

 township. Near it runs the Bury and Bacup branch 

 of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. 



There are numerous quarries on the hills, while 

 cotton-mills line the banks of the Irwell. 



Horse-races formerly took place near Cowpe. 7 



being infirm and incapable, the represen- 

 tative of the family, a member of the 

 Established Church, gave him notice to 

 go and offered a retiring pension, being 

 assured that the building was legally his 

 own property. 



7 8 The church at Stubbins was an off- 

 shoot from Park in 1861 ; that at Dun- 

 dee is the result of a dispute among the 

 teachers and scholars at the old Dundee 

 School ; it was built in 1885 ; Nigh ting- 

 gale, op. cit. iii, 238. The church at Green 

 Mount owes its beginnings to the arbi- 

 trary dismissal of the Sunday-school 

 superintendent at St. Anne's Church, 

 Tottington. A school-chapel was built 

 in 1848, and a church formed about nine 

 years later ; ibid, iii, 211-15, 2 39 



1 Local Govt. Bd. Order 32291. 



a Chart. R. 87 (22 Edw. I), m. u, 

 no. 23. 



8 By a comparison of the De Lacy 

 Comfoti (Chet. Soc.) of 1295-6 and 

 1304-5, the 'newly made park" is seen 

 to have been formed about that time ; 

 pp. 5, 100 i. The accounts for the park 

 palings are given ; ibid. 98, 115. 'The 

 whole land of Musbury ' had been granted 

 to John de Lacy (before 1241) by Lewis 

 de Bernavill ; Whitaker, Whalley (ed. 

 Nicholls), i, 316. Henry de Lacy in 1307 

 granted to Adam son of Adam de Holden 

 part of the waste in Tottington adjoining 

 Musbury Park, at a rent of 5*. j ibid. 191, 



quoting Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xiv, 54. 

 The park, with its herbage and agist- 

 ments, was said to be worth 131. \d. in 

 1311 ; De Lacy Inq. (Chet. Soc.), 19. 



Trespasses in Queen Isabel's park of 

 Musbury are recorded in 1329 and 1330 ; 

 Cal.Pat. 1327-30, pp.435, 5 66 - I Q '334 

 Adam son of William de Radcliffe and 

 many others, including the rector of Bury, 

 broke and entered the park and took and 

 carried away venison; Coram Rege. R. 302, 

 Rex, m. 6 d. William de Tonge was 

 parker in 1346 ; Cal. Close, 1346-9, p. 

 SO. 



4 In 1485 the king leased the herbage 

 and pannage of his park of Musbury to 

 Lawrence Maderer ; Duchy of Lane. Misc. 

 Bks. 21, fol. 9, A/54- Notes of other 

 leases and the following list of parkers 

 are given in Whitaker, ffhalley, loc. sup. 

 cit. : Nicholas Brownlow, 1413 ; John 

 Barlow ; John Kay, 1463 ; Lawrence 

 Maderer. 



The Tippet (Trippet) of Ogden or Ug- 

 den was the subject of several disputes in 

 the time of Elizabeth. It was stated to 

 be within the manor of Accrington ; 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 385 ; iii, 

 56, 78. 



6 From the Comfoti above referred to it 

 is clear that Musbury was within the 

 manor of Tottington in 1305. The re- 

 ferences in Queen Isabel's time are vague, 

 but suggest that it had become indepen- 



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dent, though perhaps not included in 

 Rossendale. 



There are references to Musbury among 

 the inquests of the Forest of Rossendale 

 in the court rolls of the manor of Accring- 

 ton preserved at Clitheroe Castle and the 

 Public Record Office. 



For instance, in 1518 the greave of 

 Rossendale surrendered a corn-mill in 

 Oakenhead Wood, with its water-course 

 and the soke of all the tenants and in- 

 habitants in Rossendale, Musbury, and 

 New hall Hey ; see also the roll of 

 1514. 



In 1538 Richard Duckworth of Mus- 

 bury was found to have died holding a 

 house and land ; John Duckworth was 

 his son and heir (see also Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 317). 



A messuage and lands in Musbury 

 Park in the Forest of Rossendale were in 

 1 546 surrendered to the use of Lawrence 

 son of Lawrence Taylor ; the fine, 32*. 6</., 

 was the same as the annual rent, and this 

 seems to have been the rule in such 

 transfers. 



Alexander Entwisle of Edgeworth held 

 two messuages in Musbury in 1603 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xviii, no. 



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6 The place so called lies on the north 



bank of the Irwell, outside the township 

 and parish. 



7 Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), ii, 674. 



