SALFORD HUNDRED 



BOLTON-LE-MOORS 



There is a mission church at Toppings, opened in 

 1897, and services are also held in the school at 

 Eagley Bridge. 



Schools at Turton and Walmsley existed in ijiS. 89 



The Wesleyan Methodists have chapels at Turton, 

 Egerton, and Toppings or Birtenshaw. 90 There are 

 Congregational chapels also at Turton and Egerton. 91 



At the latter village the old Nonconformist chapel, 

 dating from 1713, is in the possession of the Uni- 

 tarians. 9 * 



The Roman Catholic Church of St. Aldhelm at 

 Turton was opened in 1903. 



EDGEWORTH 



Eggewrthe, 1212; Egewurth, 1221; Egeword and 

 Eggeword, 1292; Eggeworth, 1292, and usually; 

 Eggeswrth, 1277, 1292. 



Edgeworth village lies in the extreme southern 

 corner of its township between Bradshaw Brook, here 

 expanded artificially to form a reservoir, and Quarl- 

 ton Brook. The ground from this point rises con- 

 tinuously from 690 ft. or less till over 1,250 ft. is 

 reached on the border of Musbury, the watershed 

 being the boundary between the parishes of Bolton 

 and Bury. In the northern part of the township is 

 Broadhead, and here the surface again rises from 

 Bradshaw Brook until a height of l,looft. is attained 



at the boundary. The area is 2,924^ acres. The 

 population of Edgeworth, Entwisle, and Quarlton 

 was 2,518 in 1901. 



The principal road is that from Bury to Blackburn, 

 passing north-west through the western part of the 

 township. 



The land is chiefly in pasture. There is a cotton 

 mill, and a stone quarry is worked. 



The Children's Home, established in 1872, is 

 situated high up on the hill-side, more than a mile ta 

 the north of Edgeworth village. 



In 1898 the township or civil parish of Edge- 

 worth was extended to include Entwisle and Quarl- 

 ton also, and at the same time, for local government 

 purposes, Edgeworth was added to the Turton L rban 

 District. 1 



There were thirty-eight hearths liable to be taxed 

 in 1666, but no house had as many as six hearths. 1 * 



The manor of EDGEWORTH was 

 M4NOR in 1212 held of the king in thegnage 

 by William de Radcliffe of Radcliffe ; it 

 then included Entwisle and Quarlton, and was 

 assessed as one plough-land, the annual service being 

 a rent of ios. 3 Within a century it had been granted 

 to the Traffords of Trafford, 3 and was held by them 

 as the twelfth part of a knight's fee. In 1589 

 it was sold to Nicholas Mosley, 4 who in 1598 sold 

 it to Richard Orrell and Alexander Bradshaw ; * 



89 Gastrell, Notitia, i, 25, 27. 



90 Birtenshaw Chapel was opened in 

 8 7S . 



91 The first Congregational chapel at 

 Egerton (or Walmsley) was opened in 

 1812 ; there had been meetings in rooms 

 for some time before, and to some extent 

 the congregation represented the Noncon- 

 formists of 1662. The present church 

 was built in 1873-4 ; Nightingale, Lanes. 

 Nonconformity, iii, 64-9. 



93 After the ejection of Mr. Briscoe the 

 congregation at Walmsley seems to have 

 had no regular nonconforming minister 

 for many years. There is a tradition 

 that at one time they had to endure some 

 persecution, and met for worship secretly 

 in Yarnsdale, on the northern boundary of 

 the township. In 1706 they are said to 

 have obtained a licence to hold meetings 

 in Evan Dewhurst's kitchen, now the 

 Globe Inn, but at the same time there is 

 evidence that they used Walmsley Chapel. 

 They built a chapel for themselves close 

 at hand at Dimple in 1713. The congre- 

 gation became Unitarian about forty years 

 later ; ibid, iii, 54-64. 



1 By the Bolton, Turton, and West- 

 houghton Extension Act, 1898. 



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



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

 Lanes. andChes.), i, 67. In 1221 Eugenia, 

 the widow of William de Radcliffe, de- 

 manded dower in a plough-land in Edge- 

 worth, and shortly afterwards she rendered 

 4<W. to the king from her land in Salford 

 Hundred, showing that the service due 

 from Edgeworth was 10*.; ibid. 129 ; 

 Curia Regis R. 78, m. 14 d. In 1246 

 Eugenia de Radcliffe recovered 8 acres in 

 Edgeworth against Jordan de Quickenlow, 

 who could not be found ; Assize R. 404, 

 m. 3. 



On partition Edgeworth seems to have 

 been reckoned as half a plough-land, and 

 Entwisle and Quarlton each 2 oxgangs of 

 land. 



8 The time and manner of the grant 

 are unknown, but the Radcliffes did not 



entirely yield up their interest in the 

 manor, the Quarlton part being retained 

 by them. 



The sheriff was in 1295 ordered to 

 inquire whether Henry de Trafford held 

 8 oxgangs, &c., in Edgeworth of Richard 

 de Radcliffe by the service of \d. and the 

 eighth part of a knight's fee, as Richard 

 asserted, or by the J</. only as Henry 

 said ; De Banco R. 109, m. 22. 



In 1276 and later Henry de Trafford 

 had disputes with Henry de Lacy, Earl 

 of Lincoln, arising probably out of the 

 undefined boundary between Edgeworth 

 and Tottington ; Assize R. 405, m. 2 ; 

 R. 1235, m. i id.; R. 1265, m. 4 d. 

 A ditch having been made was thrown 

 down by the earl's bailiffs, the moor lying 

 between the two townships all animals 

 could enter by the breaches in the ditch ; 

 Assize R. 1271, m. 12. In 1292 Richard 

 de Radcliffe was the plaintiff in a claim 

 against the earl respecting 50 acres of 

 moor and moss, but withdrew ; Assize R. 

 408, m. 6 id. In the same year Edge- 

 worth was included in a Trafford settle- 

 ment ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 170. 



William de Radcliffe was in 1312 

 summoned to answer Henry de Trafford 

 respecting the seizure of a cow at Edge- 

 worth, and in defence said that Henry 

 formerly held the manor of one Richard 

 son of Robert de Radcliffe by the service 

 of \d. a year, and the cow was taken 

 because this rent was in arrears ; De 

 Banco R. 195, m. 268. 



In 1324 Henry de Trafford held [part 

 of] a plough-land in Edgeworth by a rent of 

 js. 7</., William de Radcliffe holding the 

 remainder by 2s. 6d. ; Lanes. Inq. and 

 Extents^ ii, 104-5. The versions differ. 



In 1346 it was returned that Henry 

 de Trafford, Richard de Radcliffe and 

 John de Entwisle held 2$ plough-lands in 

 Edgeworth and Quarlton by the fourth 

 part of a knight's fee, paying 2s. 6d. as 

 castle ward ; also that Henry de Trafford 

 paid js. 6d. for the manor of Edgeworth 



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at the four terms; Add. MS. 32103, 

 fol. 146. 



Henry de Trafford died in 1395 holding 

 two parts of a third of the manor of 

 Edgeworth of the Duke of Lancaster by 

 knight's service ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. 

 Soc.), i, 63. His estate is called two 

 parts of ttvo parts of the manor in the 

 inquisition after the death of his widow 

 in 1421, when her third was stated to be 

 worth Ss. 6d. a year clear ; Towneley 

 MS. DD, no. 1505. In another inquisi- 

 tion (1414) in Dods. MSS. cxxxi, it is 

 called two parts of two parts of half the 

 vill of Edgeworth, the service being 

 knight's service, and the rent of zd. 



Sir John Trafford, who died in 1489,. 

 held two parts of the third part of the 

 manor of Edgeworth by the sixteenth 

 part of a knight's fee ; the clear value 

 was iOi.; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 

 no. 85. 



Sir Edmund Trafford, who died in 1533, 

 held a third part of the manor by the 

 third part of the fourth part of a knight's- 

 fee ; ibid, vi, no. 20. 



In the above the 'third part of the 

 manor ' probably means Edgeworth proper, 

 aa distinct from Entwisle and Quarlton. 



Edmund Trafford, who died in 1563, 

 held the manor of Edgeworth of the 

 queen as of her Duchy of Lancaster by 

 the third part of the fourth part of a 

 knight's fee, and a rent of Bs. yearly j 

 ibid, xi, no. 1 1. 



4 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 51, m. 

 115 ; the Trafford estate in Harwood and 

 Bolton was included. 



5 The purchasers in the same year, 

 reciting the sale by Nicholas Mosley of 

 London, complained that Giles Entwisle 

 and others had wrongfully entered several 

 tenements in the manor. James Shippo- 

 bottom alias Nevill replied that about 

 1566 Edmund Trafford, then in possession 

 of the manor, had for services done to his- 

 father consented to the marriage of the 

 said James with Elizabeth, daughter of 

 William Holden, ancient tenant of the- 



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