and Broadhalgh. 30 O 4 KEN ROD HALL stands in a 

 commanding position on high ground above the River 

 Roch, and is a two-story stone-built house, with 

 stone-slated roofs, now in a state of semi-dilapidation 

 and let in several tenements. It overlooks the river 

 and has a long irregularly broken elevation of about 

 80 ft. to the east, which appears to have been added 

 to at various times ; but the principal front faces west 

 with a regular frontage of about 45 ft., with a north 

 wing, apparently a later addition, projecting some 

 2 5 ft., and a large stone chimney in its south gable. 

 There is no date on the building, but it appears to 

 have been erected about the middle of the 1 7th cen- 

 tury, probably replacing an older house on the same 

 site, but it was much altered about the beginning of 

 the 1 8th century during the residence of Edmund 

 Butterworth. The principal or west front has little 

 architectural distinction, the roof being straight with 

 overhanging eaves, and has five large mullioned and 

 transomed windows on each floor, with a central 

 entrance which preserves its original oak door and iron 

 hinges. The rectangular space in front is inclosed as 

 a garden by a fence wall with moulded coping, and 

 the old gate piers with square moulded caps still 

 remain opposite the entrance. There was formerly 

 another gateway to the garden at the south-west angle, 

 but this is built up and the piers gone. Both sets of 



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piers had formerly ornamental tops, but these have 

 disappeared. The east front must have been originally 

 the more picturesque, but it is now spoiled by addi- 

 tions and is in a bad state of repair. The walling is 

 of rough stone, and some of the windows retain their 

 old diamond quarries with wide leading painted white. 

 In the cottage at the south-east corner are the remains 

 of a fine oak staircase with twisted balusters and a 

 large tapering twisted newel-post going up to the 

 ceiling and supporting a beam above. The stairs are 

 apparently not in their original position, half balusters 

 coming awkwardly in front of a window. 31 



The hamlet of Clay Lane, in the western corner, 

 seems to have been taken out of Chadwick. Bagslate 

 Common in 1626 contained 

 1 1 4 acres. 32 



WOLSTENHOLME ap- 

 pears to have been held by the 

 Chethams. 33 It likewise gave a 

 surname to the principal owner 

 or resident. 34 The old hall was 

 a two-story stone-built house 

 with gables and mullioned win- 

 dows, but all trace of it has 

 now disappeared." In 1626 WOLSTKNHOI.MK of 



' . * * , r Wolstenholme. Azure 



the largest estate was that of a lion fassant guardant 



Samuel Bamford of Bamford. 36 bet-ween three pheons or. 



withdraw the man from the king's side, 

 and had supplied men and money for the 

 Parliament. Unfortunately he was after- 

 wards 'encompassed by the enemy, sur- 

 prised, and brought into Lathom,' but 

 escaping made his way to the Parliamentary 

 quarters. His property was sequestered, 

 and though he took the National Coven- 

 ant he had to pay a fine of 28 ; Royalist 

 Composition Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iii, 2-4. A pedigree was re- 

 corded in 16645. 



80 John son of Robert de Spotland 

 granted to William the Serjeant, at \d. 

 rent, land in Broadhalgh, as much as 

 pertained to i oxgang ; the bounds are 

 thus described : from Elysclough, where 

 it met the Roch, up as far as the hedge, 

 thence by ditches to Dogwall, by Dogwall- 

 clough to the Roch, and so to the starting- 

 point ; Whalley CoucAer, iii, 757. The 

 id. rent was afterwards released 5 ibid, 

 iii, 754. 



For the more recent history see Fish- 

 wick, op. cit. 503. 



In 1626 Robert Holt held 113 acres in 

 Chadwick ; Surv. ut sup. 160. 



81 There is an illustration of Oakenrod 

 Hall in 1830 in Fishwick, Rochdale, 492, 

 from a sketch by George Shaw in Raines 

 MSS. i, 56. 



82 Surv. ut sup. 1 6 8. 



83 Lands in Wolstenholme and Butter- 

 worth, apparently the Chetham inherit- 

 ance, were settled in 1278 ; Final Cone, i, 

 1 54. Geoffrey de Chadderton in 1311 held 

 an oxgang of land in Wolstenholme by the 

 service of izd. a year, and Roger de Pil- 

 kington also held an oxgang in ' Pilking- 

 ton ' by the same service ; De Lacy Inq. 

 (Chet. Soc.), 20. John de Radcliffe of 

 Chadderton was plaintiff in 1367 respect- 

 ing Spotland, and defendant in 1370 ; De 

 Banco R. 426, m. 35, 86 d. ; 440, m. 

 244. In the next year Thomas son of 

 Thomas de Bamford claimed a messuage 

 and land in Spotland against John de Rad- 

 cliffe ; ibid. R. 441, m. 57. Later the 

 Standishes and Ashtons of Chadderton 

 held land in Rochdale of the king ; Duchy 



of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, no. 4, 21, 23. 

 In a deed of partition in 1534 part of the 

 land is called Nadenland in Spotland, 

 Thomas Holt and Ralph Naden being 

 tenants ; Robert Holt paid 6d. for the 

 attachment of a mill in Wolstenholme, 

 and there were other messuages and lands 

 in Spotland and Hundersficld ; Raines D. 

 in the Chetham Library. 



Sir John de Pilkington (perhaps by 

 inheritance from Chetham) held Green- 

 booths in Spotland in 1424, and granted 

 it to Geoffrey son of John de Holt ; 

 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), i, 197. 



84 Among the witnesses to Adam de 

 Spotland's charter, c. 1190, already cited, 

 were Martin de Wolstenholme, Robert 

 his brother, Andrew de Wolstenholme, 

 and Henry his brother ; Whalley CoucAer, 

 iii, 728. John de Wolstenholme occurs 

 in 1309; ibid, iii, 784. John also ap- 

 pears in 1332 ; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 33. 



Thomas son of Thomas de Wolsten- 

 holme did not prosecute a claim for land 

 in Spotland against John de Buersill and 

 others in 1329 ; Assize R. 427, m. 3 d. 



At Pentecost 1352 Robert son of 

 Robert de ' Hayward ' claimed a messuage 

 and lands in Spotland against Robert son 

 of John de Wolstenholme ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Assize R. 2, m. 8 d. 



In 1626 an 'ancient grant' by Sir 

 Henry Savile to Thomas son of Thurstan 

 Wolstenholme was produced, of land 

 called Wolstenholme; a rent of zs. was 

 due ; Surv. ut sup. 193. 



John Wolstenholme who died in 

 1555-6 held a messuage called Wolsten- 

 holme, with lands, water-mill, &c., of 

 Sir Henry Savile in socage, by a rent of 

 zs. ; he also held lands called Bradshaw 

 of the king and queen by a rent of 2d. 

 John his son and heir was nineteen years 

 of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 3 9. 

 Bradshaw is mentioned in a Whitworth 

 charter in the Whalley Coucher, iii, 675. 



John Wolstenholme and Jane his wife 

 in 1582 sold ten messuages, &c., in Wol- 

 stenholme to Thomas and Lawrence 



2O9 



Hardman 5 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 44, m. 146. Thomas Hardman in 1626 

 held only 47 acres ; Surv. 194. Some fur- 

 ther notes about the Wolstenholme family 

 are given in Fishwick, op. cit. 526-8. 



85 Ibid. 528, where a sketch of the house 

 in 1830, by George Shaw, is given. 



86 The Bamford family were very early 

 holders of land in the neighbourhood. 

 Robert de Spotland released to the monks 

 of Stanlaw his right in Stonlegh, with the 

 homage and service (19^.) of Thomas de 

 Bamford ; Whalley CoucAer, iii, 776. 

 Thomas and Adam his brother occur 

 from 1277 to 1310 ; ibid, iii, 788-95. 

 Robert son of Thomas de Bamford was 

 defendant to a Spotland claim in 1311 ; 

 De Banco R. 189, m. 9 d. 



Adam de Bamford in 1324-31 gave all 

 his lands in Chadwick to Sir Richard de 

 Byron; Byron Chartul. no. 16/203, 

 2/204. 



Richard de Bamford was in 1323 de- 

 fendant in a Spotland plea ; De Banco R. 

 247, m. 3 d. He was again in 1330 de- 

 fendant to a claim for a messuage in Spot- 

 land made by Adam the Clerk of Bury and 

 Agnes his wife ; ibid. R. 281, m. 221 d. 



Avice daughter of Thomas de Bamford 

 in Lent 1352 claimed two messuages, 30 

 acres of land, &c., against Roger (a minor) 

 son of Beatrice, daughter of John Stike- 

 wind, and others ; the plaintiff was one of 

 the heirs of Thomas son of Richard de 

 Bamford, but it was alleged that Thomas 

 had alienated the tenement in dispute ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. i, m. 4. 



James Scholefield in 1 544 purchased a 

 messuage and land in Spotland from 

 Arthur Bamford; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 12, m. 250. In 1557 Adam Bam- 

 ford had lands, &c., in Wolstenholme and 

 Spotland ; ibid. bdle. 17, m. 177. 



John Bamford, of Bamford and With- 

 ington, died in 1559, holding a messu- 

 age, &c., in Spotland of Robert Holt and 

 Robert Savile in socage by a rent ot 

 2s. $d. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 

 no. 61. A little later the tenure is de- 

 scribed as the hundredth part of a knight's 



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