A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



common lands in Spotland in 1626 measured 1,000 

 acres, including 67 z in Shore Moor, Hunger Hill, 

 &c. 18 



CHADWICK gave a surname to its principal 

 landowners, who can be traced from early times till 

 their extinction in the 1 8th 

 century. 20 Oliver Chadwick 

 died in July 1542 holding a 

 capital messuage in Spotland 

 and various other messuages 

 and land there of Robert Holt 

 of Stubley in socage by a rent 

 of \id. ; Roger his son and 

 heir was twenty years of age. 11 

 Roger died about the end of 

 1610," and his son Oliver in 

 1621 ; the latter held the 

 capital messuage, as before, of 

 John Holt of Stubley by a rent 

 of I zd., also other lands of James Holt and of Sir John 

 Byron by rents of 6d. and zd. respectively ; his son 

 and heir John was thirty years old.* s 



John dying without issue about 1631 the estate 

 went to a cousin, also John Chadwick son of Robert, 

 a younger son of the above-named Roger ; his son 

 Jonathan recorded a pedigree in 1664." Though 

 Jonathan had four sons and three daughters, all died 

 without issue, the last of the family being Sarah 

 Chadwick, who died in 1722, unmarried." She left 

 her estates to a relative, the Rev. Roger Kay,* 6 and he 



CHADWICK of Chad- 

 wick. Gules an escut- 

 cheon 'within an orle of 

 martlets argent. 



gave Chadwick Hall to Bury Grammar School, on 

 refounding it in 1726." 



CHADW1CK HALL is situated about \\ miles to 

 the west of Rochdale on the Bury Road, and is now a 

 farm-house. The date 1 620 is on a stone on the north 

 side, but the present house is only a fragment of the 

 building erected by Oliver Chadwick in that year. A 

 view of the hall as it existed in 1 799 l8 shows a long 

 two-story stone building, the principal front facing 

 south, with three gables and a projecting wing at the 

 east end. The north front had two gables only at its 

 east end, the western half being under one long roof 

 and having an upper bay window of eleven lights and 

 a porch leading into a through passage forming the 

 screens. At the north-east was a large detached barn 

 standing at right angles to the main building. This 

 barn, along with the whole of the west end of the 

 house, including the through passage-way, has now 

 disappeared, and all that remains is the original east 

 wing and adjoining hall, having a total frontage north 

 and south of 45 ft. The building shows two gables 

 on each front, with low mullioned windows with hood- 

 moulds, and has stone-slated roofs. There is some 

 oak panelling in one of the lower rooms, but other- 

 wise the interior of the house is without interest, and 

 the south side of the east wing has been modernized 

 and sash-windows inserted. A new barn was erected 

 about 1 840 to the east of the present house, on part 

 of the site of the destroyed wing. 



In the same hamlet were the estates of Oakenrod w 



18 Manor Surv. ut sup. 190. 



19 Robert son of Adam de Spotland 

 gave to Henry son of Peter de Haworth 

 as much land within the bounds of Chad- 

 wick as pertained to 2 oxgangs of land, one 

 inherited and the other purchased from 

 John de Lacy, the said bounds being : 

 From the Roch to Redbrook, up this to 

 Catshaw, thence to Scholefull lache, to 

 Grimsley, up to Black lache, as far as 

 Naden, descending by Naden up to the 

 boundary between Chadwick and Bam- 

 ford, along this boundary as far as the 

 Roch, and so back to the starting-point ; 

 Whalley Coucher, iii, 796. 



80 The Chadwicks were probably a 

 branch or continuation of one of the 

 Spotland families, for, as already stated, 

 about 1190 Adam de Spotland gave an 

 acre in Chadwick to Rochdale Church ; 

 ibid, iii, 727. Robert son of Adam de 

 Chadwick gave to Stanlaw Abbey some 

 land in Chadwick ; ibid, iii, 776. Henry 

 son of Martin de Spotland gave to Stan- 

 law the land his father had bought from 

 Robert de Chadwick within the bounds of 

 Sedewalhelin nabbe ; ibid, iii, 752. An- 

 drew son of Henry de Chadwick made 

 various grants to the monks, including a 

 release of \d. rent, dated 1308 ; ibid, iii, 

 785-7. Some of these grants mention 

 Ireford in Chadwick, and Robert son of 

 Andrew de Chadwick about 1250 gave the 

 monks two assarts in Ireford heys ; ibid, 

 iii, 789. Andrew son of Henry de Chad- 

 wick may be the same as Andrew son of 

 Henry de Spotland, who appears between 

 1277 and 1308 as releasing various small 

 rents due from the monks ; ibid, iii, 788, 

 797 5 and see ii, 605. Chadwick ford is 

 also named. 



In 1369 William son of John de Chad- 

 wick and Agnes his wife purchased 

 various messuages and lands in Spotland 

 from Geoffrey de Lightollers and Cecily 

 his wife, Adam de Clegg and Agnes 



his wife, and Adam del Brook and Mar- 

 garet his wife ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 175. William and 

 Henry de Chadwick were living in 1381 ; 

 Fishwick, Rochdale, 34. 



Robert son of Nicholas de Chadwick in 

 1445 granted his lands to Henry son of 

 his brother John ; Fishwick, op. cit. 489 

 (quoting Sydhall title deeds). An estate in 

 Spotland and Hundcrsfield was in 1509 

 settled by Hugh Chadwick the elder, John 

 his son, and Hugh son of John ; but these 

 do not seem to have been of the Chadwick 

 Hall family ; Final Cone, iii, 167. 



31 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ix, no. 16. 

 About 1540 he held lands of the late 

 abbey of Whalley by a rent of u.; Whalley 

 Coucher, iv, 1225. 



22 An abstract of his will is printed in 

 frills (Chet. Soc.) (new ser.), i, 206. 



28 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 275. John Chadwick of 

 Chadwick Hall held 106 acres in 1626 ; 

 Surv. ut sup. 1 6 1. 



Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 73. 



25 See Fishwick, op. cit. 487-90, where 

 there is a pedigree. 



26 Corry, Lanes, ii, 552. 



*7 Char. Rep. of 1828, xix, 2 1 6. The 

 gift included Coptrod, Bagslate, Bentwood, 

 and other lands in Spotland. 



28 Illustrations of the north and south 

 fronts in 1799 *re given in Corry, Lanes. 

 i, 268. 



29 Alexander de Ellenrod granted a 

 moiety of Oakenrod to the monks of 

 Stanlaw, and Alexander de Oakenrod, son 

 of Robert de Spotland, gave them all his 

 land in Twofoldhee ; Whalley Coucher t iii, 



755-6- 



In 1273 Robert son of Alexander de 

 Oakenrod gave to Adam, son of Richard 

 son of John de Hulton (see the account 

 of Buckley), the rents due from Adam de 

 Bamford and another for pieces of land 

 in Chadwick ; Agecroft D. no. 333. 



208 



William de Turnagh acquired land in 

 Spotland in 1299 ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 188. He gave Adam 

 de Bradley lands in Oakenrod and the 

 Greave, to be held of the chief lords, John 

 de Eland and Henry de Lacy, by the ac- 

 customed services, viz. a rent of id. to 

 each ; Fishwick, op. cit. 491, quoting the 

 Survey of 1626. 



In the reign of Elizabeth the Radcliffeg 

 of Ordsall held a messuage, fulling-mill, 

 &c., in Spotland and Oakenrod, of the 

 queen in socage ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xiii, no. 33 ; xv, no. 45. 



Afterwards it passed into the possession 

 of the Gartsides, who held it for about a 

 century ; it is now owned by the Royds 

 family ; Fishwick, op. cit. 493-6, where 

 there is a pedigree. 



James Gartside died 25 February 

 1625-6 holding a messuage and lands in 

 Spotland of Robert Holt, and leaving a 

 widow Isabel and three young daughters 

 Susanna, Alice, and Anne as heirs. He 

 left his lands to his brother Henry, who 

 was to give the daughters marriage por- 

 tions ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 (Chet. 

 Lib.), 465. Henry Gartside held 75 

 acres in 1626 ; Surv. ut sup. 160. He 

 died 29 January 1636-7, holding Oaken- 

 rod below Rochdale of Robert Holt, and 

 leaving a son James, a year old. James 

 was the younger son, Gabriel the elder 

 having, it appears, died soon after hi* 

 father, who names him in his will. There 

 were also three daughters. Samuel,, 

 brother of Henry, was next heir male ; 

 Towneley MS. C, 8, 13, p. 466. See Dug- 

 dale, Vitit. (Chet. Soc.), 115. 



Gabriel Gartside, who resided in Butter- 

 worth, was guardian to the heir of his 

 cousin Henry Gartside of Oakenrod, and 

 at the beginning of the Civil War was on 

 that account required to send a soldier to 

 the muster held by Lord Strange ; but, 

 according to his own story, he had tried to> 



