SALFORD HUNDRED 



ROCHDALE 



Dearden family, now lords of the manor of Rochdale. 57 

 Windy Bank M and Town House 59 are other old estates. 



The house known as Windy Bank stands in a fine 

 position above the road near to the ancient packhorse 

 track leading over Blackstone Edge. It is a picturesque 



two-story stone-built house i shaped in plan, the 



long front facing south and the short arm running 

 north at the east end. The principal elevation has 

 three flush gables with long low mullioned windows 

 with hood-moulds over. At the east end is a large 

 projecting chimney, and at the south-east angle a large 

 roughly-carved gargoyle in the form of a man holding 

 open his mouth with both hands. Over the door are 

 the initials I'B' (John Butterworth) and the date 

 1635, and there was formerly a sundial in the middle 

 gable, traces of which still remain. The house is now 

 let in tenements, and the interior has been remodelled 

 and is without interest. 60 



Lower Town House was rebuilt in 1604, and an 

 illustration of it in the 1 8th century shows a pictur- 

 esquely grouped two-story gabled structure with farm 

 buildings adjoining. This building was pulled down 

 in 1798 when the present house a plain 18th-cen- 

 tury stone building with sash windows took its place. 

 Over a door in the servants' hall is a carved stone from 

 the old house with the initials * R.N. W.N. 1604,' and 

 in more modern characters 'W.N.B. rebuilt 1798.' 

 In the wall of one of the outbuildings is a stone bear- 

 ing the Newall arms and the initials and date, ' L.N.S. 

 1752.'" 



Robert Holt of Stubley and John Belfield of Little- 

 borough were among the landowners in i626. 6J At 

 that time there were 1,134 acres of copyhold land. 

 The chief landowners in 1797 were Mr. Dearden, 

 Mr. Newall, Colonel Chadwick, and Mr. Beswicke. 68 



On the west side of the high road at Steanor Bot- 

 tom, near Calderbrook, is a three-story stone house with 

 mullioned windows, along the front of which is a long 

 ornamental panel 64 with carved border and quaint 

 inscriptions : 



NO MAN ON 



EARTH CAN TE 



LL THE TORMENT 



THATS IN EL 



A S E I7OO 



BY MANY 



STROKES THE 



WORK IS DONE 



THAT COVLD 



NOT BE PER 



FORMD BY ONE 



The initials refer to one of the Eastwood family. 

 Apart from the inscriptions the house is architecturally 

 without interest. 



TODMORDEN AND WALSDEN 



1NCHFIELD in Walsden was formerly reckoned a 

 manor, having probably been the site of the manor- 

 house of the Savile family, who, as above stated, once 

 held a moiety of the manor of Rochdale as heirs of 

 the Hugh de Eland of 1212." In 1626 it was held 

 by George son of George Travis of the king by a rent 



payable ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 

 no. 48. Thomas Shore in 1561 pur- 

 chased a messuage, &c., from Henry Bam- 

 ford ; Pal. of Lane. Feet, of F. bdle. 23, 

 tn. 48. 



Thomas Shore and Margery his wife 

 made a settlement of lands, &c., in 1585; 

 ibid. bdle. 47, m. 68. Thomas Shore 

 was in possession in 1626 ; Surv. ut sup. 

 1 06. Some deeds of the family are in 

 Raines MSS. xvi, 217-23 ; see also 

 Fishwick, op. cit. 433. 



*7 Ibid. 449. 



58 In 1334 Henry son of Henry del 

 Windybank, a minor, recovered possession 

 of a messuage and lands in Hundersfield 

 and Butterworth against William del 

 Windybank ; the occupier was Henry 

 Tyrry ; Coram Rege R. 297, m. 115 d. 



Joan widow of Henry de Windybank 

 in July 1352 recovered dower in lands in 

 Hundersfield and Butterworth against 

 Margery and Agnes, daughters of Richard 

 de Wardle. The defence was a release 

 granted by Joan in 1 344 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 2, m. 3 d. 



In 1568 Joan, one of the daughters and 

 heirs of Richard Lightollers of Windy 

 Bank, gave her .right to Alexander College; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 673. 



Windy Bank was in 1626 held by Rich- 

 ard Lightollers by a rent of 45. Sd. due to 

 Savile ; Surv. 109. 



An abstract of the title deeds may be 

 found in Raines MSS. ii, 297 ; it be- 

 gins in 1718, when Robert (son of John 

 son of Robert) Butterworth was owner. 



59 In 1626 there were two estates bear- 

 ing this name. The Upper Town House, 

 with 112 acres, was held by Alexander 

 Kirshaw by rents of zs. to the king and 

 id, to Savile ; and the Lower Town 

 House, with 88 acres, was held by Robert 

 Newall ; Surv. 109. 



The Town House evidences are given 

 in Raines MSS. v, 264 on. They be- 

 gin with a grant by Thomas son of 



Michael de Wardle to Matthew de Kir- 

 shaw (Kyrkeschagh) of J oxgang in Hun- 

 dersfield in 1317. Christopher Kirshaw 

 living in 1453 had two daughters, Eleanor 

 and Isabel, of whom the latter married 

 William Newall, and the former is said 

 to have married Chadwick of Healey. 

 There is a full pedigree of the Newall 

 family in Fish wick's work, 445 ; for the 

 family deeds see Raines MSS. iii, 146 ; v, 

 264, &c. 



An indenture concerning the marriage 

 of William son of Ralph Kirshaw of 

 Littleborough with Agnes daughter of 

 John Buckley and Emma his wife occurs 

 in 1567; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 222, 

 m. 9. 



A settlement of ten messuages, &c., in 

 Hundersfield was in 1572 made by Ed- 

 mund Kirshaw, Geoffrey his son and heir 

 apparent, and the latter's wife Katharine ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 34, m. 102. 

 This probably refers to the Upper Town 

 House, which was eventually purchased by 

 the Newalls ; Fishwick, op. cit. 444. 



Michael son of William del 'Ton' 

 gave land in Hundersfield to Stanlaw 

 Abbey between the Tonbrook and the 

 land of the sons of Patrick ; Whalley 

 Coucher, i, 159. 



60 There is an illustration of Windy 

 Bank in 1840 in Fishwick, Roc/iJalc, 436, 

 from a sketch by George Shaw in Raines 

 MSS. ii, 295. 



61 Fishwick, Rochdale, 443, 444. 



62 Surv. ut sup. 104, 108. 



68 Land tax returns at Preston. 



64 There is an illustration of the panel 

 or frieze, which is built up in many stones, 

 in Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), ii, 646, but 

 the blank panels are reduced in width, and 

 the length of the whole consequently cur- 

 tailed. 



65 Lanci. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 40. Hugh de Eland 

 had in 1 202 granted 2 oxgangs in Hunders- 

 field to Thomas son of Jordan at a rent of 



22Q 



2s. 8d. ; Uhtred and Michael were the 

 previous holders ; Final Concords, i, 17. 



John de Eland in 1311 held of Henry 

 de Lacy one plough-land in Hundersfield, 

 by the annual service of 601. ; De Lacy Inq. 

 (Chet. Soc.), 20. John de Balshagh, per- 

 haps as bailiff of Rochdale, in 1324,5 

 claimed tenements in Hundersfield against 

 John de Eland and others, but did not 

 proceed ; Assize R. 426, m. 9. 



Little is known of the lordship of the 

 other moiety of Hundersfield. Robert de 

 Flamborough (Flayneburgh) and Alice his 

 wife in 1235 granted half an oxgang in 

 Hundersfield to three brothers named An- 

 drew, Peter, and Alexander, at a rent of 

 %d. ; the land was Alice's ; Final Con- 

 cords, i, 69. In 1246 Alice widow of 

 Robert de Flamborough (Flaynburg) had 

 a suit with Patrick son of Michael de 

 Hundersfield; Assize R. 1045, m. 53. In 

 the same year Alice daughter and heir of 

 Robert de Liversedge successfully claimed 

 common of pasture in Hundersfield against 

 Richard son of Andrew son of Matthew 

 de Hundersfield ; also against Patrick son 

 of Michael, Richard son of Andrew, Wil- 

 liam son of Beatrice, Henry son of Ivo, 

 Roger son of Adam, and Michael de 

 Lightollers ; Assize R. 404, m. 7d, 8. The 

 plaintiff in these cases may have been the 

 same Alice. Thomas de Langfieldin 1306 

 made a claim for meadow in Todmorden and 

 Hundersfield against Henry son of Richard 

 de Hipperholm and John de Lacy; the last- 

 named said he had nothing except in com- 

 mon with his wife Margaret, who was not 

 named in the writ ; Assize R. 419, m. 6. 



In 1296 the land of Henry son of 

 Patrick (perhaps the above-named Patrick) 

 was in the lord's hands, in consequence of 

 the felony of Randle brother and heir of 

 Henry ; De Lacy Compoti (Chet. Soc.), 6. 

 The issues were zs. 



The descent of the Eland and Savile 

 manor has been recited under Rochdale ; 

 Inchfield is styled a manor in 1551. 



