SALFORD HUNDRED 



BOLTON-LE-MOORS 



Apostolic (Irvingite) church," a New Jerusalem of the 

 Swedenborgians, 43 a Christian meeting - house, and 

 several mission halls. The Welsh Calvinistic Metho- 

 dists have a church in Clarence Street. 44 



For Roman Catholic worship there is the church 

 of St. Mary, opened in 1 847. 



TONGE-WITH-HAULGH 



Tange, 1212; Tonge, 1226 and usual; Tong, 

 1284. 



Halgh, 1338. 



Tonge, as its name implies, is a tongue of land, 

 lying between Bradshaw and Tonge Brooks on the 

 east and west sides respectively ; it has an extreme 

 length from north to south of about 2 miles, and an 

 area of 830 acres. The population of Tonge and 

 Breightmet was 10,247 in I9OI. 1 



Haulgh is a similar but much smaller tongue of land 

 between the Croal and Tonge Brook. It has an area 

 of 269 acres. Physically it forms part of Little Bolton, 

 though joined with Tonge to make a township. The 

 population was in 1901 enumerated with that of 

 Great Bolton.* 



A road from Bolton Church to Bury passes east 

 through Haulgh and Tonge, lined with houses all the 

 way, and crossing into Breightmet by Tootill Bridge. 

 From Little Bolton a road goes northward through 

 Tonge to Turton and Haslingden ; it passes through 

 the village of Tonge, almost in the centre of the 

 township, and from this point other roads go off east 

 towards Bury, and south to join the former road to 

 Bury. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's 

 line from Bolton to Blackburn runs north through 

 Tonge ; and the same company's railway from Bolton 

 to Bury crosses the southern end of Haulgh, and has 

 a station there called Darcy Lever. The Bolton and 

 Manchester Canal, begun in 1791, starts in Haulgh 



at the border of Little Bolton, and goes through the 

 township close to the Croal. 



The northern end of Haulgh has long been a 

 suburb of Bolton ; the southern end is practically part 

 of Darcy Lever. It contains cotton mills, bleach 

 works, and a paper mill. The Bradford Park recrea- 

 tion ground lies beside the Tonge River. The 

 Chadwick Orphanage is in Haulgh. 



Tonge contains one of the Bolton cemeteries at its 

 southern end, 3 with the village of Tonge Fold on the 

 Bury road. In the centre is Tonge Moor, with 

 Thicketford to the west. To the north of these lie 

 respectively Lower Wood and Fir Wood. There are 

 several cotton mills, bleach works, dye works, and a 

 paper mill. A colliery is worked ; bricks formerly 

 were made. 



A popular festival called Tonge Fold or 'Turn 

 Fowt ' wakes was celebrated on 29 May. 4 



A barrow in Haulgh was opened in 1821. | 



Alexander Norris's house had six hearths liable to 

 the tax in 1666 ; there were sixty others in the 

 smaller houses. 5 



Haulgh was incorporated with Bolton on the forma- 

 tion of the borough in 1838, and was merged in the 

 new township of Bolton in 1895.** In 1898 Tonge 

 also was included within the township and borough. 515 

 In 1 2 1 2 it was found that Gilbert de 

 MANORS Tonge held an oxgang of land in TONGE 

 by 4/. rent. 6 The estate continued in the 

 local family for some time, 7 for in 1346 William de 

 Tonge was holding 60 acres in Tonge in Bolton in 

 socage by the ancient rent of 4/. 8 Later it was 

 divided ; one half being held by the Haugh or Haulgh 

 family by a tenure variously described, and the 

 remainder by the Hiltons of Brindle. 9 



In the latter moiety was the house known as the 

 Hall i' th' Wood, 10 held in the 1 6th century by a 

 family named Brownlow, 11 and later by a branch of 



49 It was opened in 1877. 



48 This denomination, known in Bolton 

 in 1781, had a meeting-place in Bury Street 

 early last century. This was abandoned to 

 the Latter Day Saints in 1 844. and the pre- 

 sent church erected. Samuel Crompton, the 

 inventor, was connected with this society ; 

 Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 378, quoting 

 James Dakeyn's Hist, of the Bolton Neiu 

 Ch. Soc. 



44 This was opened in 1872. 



1 Census Returns. a Ibid. 



8 It was opened in 1857. 



4 Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), iii, 87. 



s Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



6a Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 334.07. 



sb By the Bolton, &c. Extension Act, 

 1898. It had been made a township in 

 1894 ; Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 31690. 



6 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 71 ; see also pp. 137, 

 301. 



In 1278 Gilbert de la Greenhurst 

 claimed two messuages and various lands 

 in Tonge against Robert son of William 

 de Bolton and Alexander de Wood, as his 

 inheritance ; Assize R. 1268, m. I2d. 



A part of Tonge, probably afterwards 

 included in the holding of the Haugh 

 family, was parcel of the Marsey fee of Bol- 

 ton ; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Hebby), i, 37. 



7 Elias de Tonge occurs in 1254 and 

 1288 ; Inq. and Extents, i, 193, 270; in 

 'he latter year he held a third part of Dux- 

 bury. John de Tonge also occurs in 

 i 288 ; ibid. 268. Ellis son of Henry de 



Tonge occurs in 1292; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 8, 44. 



In 1310 John son of Ellis de Tonge 

 was pardoned for the death of William de 

 Sharpies ; Cal. Pat. 1307-13, p. 298. He 

 in 1324 held the oxgang by 4*. for sake 

 fee ; Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 37^. John 

 and William de Tonge contributed to the 

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

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 37. 



8 Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146. 



9 In 1445-6 John Haugh and Hugh 

 de Hilton of Brindle, heirs of William 

 Tonge, held 40 acres in socage as an 

 escheat, each rendering zs. yearly ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Knights' Fees, 2/20. An ac- 

 count of the Halgh or Haugh family is 

 given below. Oliver Hilton was in 1525 

 the owner, and Roger Hilton the occu- 

 pier, of a messuage, 10 acres of land, &c., 

 in Tonge ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 n, m. 174. 



10 See a full account of the house by 

 Mr. W. Fergusson Irvine, in Trans. Hist. 

 Soc. (new ser.), xix xx, 1-41 ; there are 

 views and a plan. This has been used in 

 the following notes. 



11 Lawrence Brownlow in 1483 demised 

 to Roger his son and heir and Margaret 

 his wife certain land in Little Bolton ; 

 Huntroyde D. B 19 (by Mr. Anderton). 



Roger, son and heir of Lawrence 

 Brownlow, in 1499 granted to Robert 

 Bolton of Little Bolton certain land in 

 ' Heghes in Warthes ' in the hamlet of 

 Tonge in Bolton, at a rent of 61. So 1 . ; 



255 



for this an exchange seems to have been 

 made in 1528 ; Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 

 132^/168^. Roger's son Lawrence was 

 in 1499 to marry Margery daughter of 

 Robert Bolton ; Huntroyde D. B 20. 



Lawrence Brownlow by his will dated 

 1550 left all his lands in Tonge held of 

 Oliver Hilton to his son Roger, with the 

 provision that none of the sapling trees 

 were to be sold. His widow, while un- 

 married, was to have Lower Wood in 

 Tonge, with liberty to 'get coals' (or 

 turf). A burgage in Bolton and land in 

 Longholme, ' parcel of his demesne of 

 Wood,' were left to Roger ; the younger 

 sons were to be ' kept to learning at good 

 schools ' until they could read and write ; 

 Irvine, op. cit. 24-7. By 1 560 the widow 

 had married again, and the younger chil- 

 dren tried to obtain the house, &c., given 

 to the widow ; ibid. 30 (quoting Duchy 

 of Lane. Plead. Eliz. xliv, no. 19). 



The inventory of the goods of Roger 

 Brownlow of Tonge was exhibited by his 

 son Lawrence on 28 Feb. 1577-8 ; Roger 

 seems to have died in the previous 

 August ; ibid. 27-9. It begins with a 

 'Bible of the largest volume," worth lot. 



A settlement of the capital messuage, 

 water-mill, two fulling-mills, with other 

 houses, lands, &c., in Tonge, Bolton, and 

 Turton, was made in 1581 by Lawrence 

 Brownlow and Roger son and heir of 

 Charles Brownlow ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 43, m. 187. Roger was the 

 cousin of Lawrence ; there had been a 



