A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Wilfrid was 

 opened in 1886 ; it had been preceded by a smaller 

 building, now the school, in 1869. The mission 

 was an offshoot from Alston Lane. The church 

 possesses the head of an old processional cross, found 

 in the neighbourhood about i83O. 84 



BUTTON 



Dutton, 1258 and usually. Ditton is found very 

 rarely. Dunton occurs 1289. 



This township includes the extra-parochial place or 

 chapelry of Stidd, formerly belonging to the Knights 

 of St. John of Jerusalem. The area of the whole is 

 1,898^ acres, 1 of which Stidd has 752. The popu- 

 lation in 1901 numbered 229. 



The land slopes down from nearly the highest point 

 of Longridge Fell, over i, I oo ft., to the Kibble, i oo ft. 

 above the ordnance datum, the length in this direction, 

 from north to south, exceeding 3 miles. Starling 

 Brook, on the east, divides it from Aighton, and Stidd 

 Brook, on the west, from Ribchester, while Dutton 

 Brook flows south through a wooded valley in the 

 centre to join the Ribble. Stidd proper is in the 

 south-west corner of the township, and its district 

 stretches north along the western border for some 



distance, St. John's Well being nearly a mile to the 

 north ; then it extends across the township as far as 

 the eastern border, and returns to the west. There 

 are four small detached portions at the south end of 

 Dutton and one in the north end. In the north end 

 also is a detached part of Aighton, Bailey and 

 Chaigley, known as Lennox's Farm. In recent times 

 these anomalous boundaries have been removed for 

 local government purposes. 



Ribchester Bridge is in this township ; it provides 

 a passage between Longridge and Ribchester on the 

 north and Blackburn on the south. Another road 

 from Ribchester turns to the north through the 

 township, passing Dutton Hall and Pan Stones, to 

 join the road from Longridge to Mitton. It continues 

 north through Huntingdon to join the higher road 

 between the same places. 



In 1066 DUTTON was probably a 

 MANORS part of Ribchester, not having a separate 

 record in Domesday Book, but in 1102 

 it was given, as one plough-land, to Robert de Lacy by 

 Henry I.* From that time it became a member of 

 the honor of Clitheroe, and the land was held by a 

 number of tenants. The immediate lordship of the 

 manor seems to have been held by a family using the 

 local surname, 3 from whom it passed to a younger 

 branch of the Claytons of Clayton-le-Dale about 1 2 go. 4 



Longridge in 1816 and again in 1830. 

 Also Hewitson, op. cit. 101. 



34 Smith, op. cit. 73. While an old 

 house was being pulled down a boy play- 

 ing about found the cross and some other 

 religious objects on a ledge. The church 

 also possesses a carved oak chair made 

 for John Towers, Bishop of Peter- 

 borough, 1631. See also Hewitson, op. 

 cit. 99. 



1 1,908 acres, including 24 of inland 

 water; Census Rep. 1901. The addition 

 of Lennox's Farm accounts for the differ- 

 ence of area. 



* Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 382. It was 

 given together with Aighton and Chip- 

 pingdale. There is but little evidence of 

 the dependency upon Clitheroe, but in 

 1258, after the death of Edmund de Lacy, 

 it was found that Dutton paid 5.1. to the 

 lord ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 217. 



8 As the deeds of the Dutton and 

 Clayton families do not seem to be known, 

 and as few references occur in the 

 pleadings, only a very imperfect account 

 can be given of the descent of the 

 manor. 



Uctred de Dutton granted land to Ellis 

 son of Leising within bounds including 

 Netherhalgh, Overhalgh, the Crook and 

 Wilmescroft ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 172. 

 Swain de Hothersall and Benedict de 

 Dutton were among the witnesses. 



Richard son of Uctred de Dutton gave 

 lands to Lambert de Anderton and his 

 heirs by Avice de Cundecliffe, the bounds 

 of which name Horsegate and Rakedenes- 

 cliff? ibid. no. 133. It may be added 

 here that Lambert's son Thomas was 

 surnamed 'de Dutton,' and acquired 

 various lands in the township ; he was 

 living in 1292 ; ibid. no. 132, 153, 188. 

 Richard de Dutton occurs in 1241 ; Final 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 79. 

 In 1249 Hugh Gogard claimed 2 oxgangs 

 of land in Dutton against Richard de 

 Dutton and another oxgang against 

 Richard son of Vivian, but all three were 

 acknowledged to be the right of Richard 



de Dutton ; ibid, i, 97. Richard son of 

 Uctred de Dutton and Alice his wife 

 granted lands to Sawley Abbey ; the 

 bounds of one portion name Redisnape, 

 Huuerbeleisick and Huntingdon Brook ; 

 the other portion was in his wood, near 

 'the great stonyway' ; Harl. MS. H2, 

 fol. 78^. Other grants by Richard son 

 of Uctred are in Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 217; 

 Add. MS. 32107, no. 1476-7. 



Richard de Dutton and William his 

 son were among the witnesses to a grant 

 of land in Withinlache in the upper head 

 of Dutton Holme, made by Adam son of 

 Henry de Blackburn in 1256-7 to Robert 

 de Cunliffe; Towneley MS. DD, no. 



J793- 



William son of Richard de Dutton 

 confirmed his father's gifts to Sawley ; 

 Harl. MS. 112, fol. 78*. As William 

 de Dutton he granted to Jordan the 

 Clerk son of William de Stainburgh, 

 clerk, these lands : A piece the bounds 

 of which began at the outlane (via 

 exitus\ followed the new ditch which 

 Geoffrey son of Godith made, as far as 

 Dodhill Brook, with all holmes (holmis) ; 

 part of Broadridding, on the east side of 

 the high road to Lancaster ; and the toft 

 which had belonged to Robert son of 

 Ellis de Ribchester ; to be held by a rent 

 of 3^. ; ibid. no. 173. Jordan the Clerk 

 occurs down to about 1320. To him 

 Robert son of William de Dutton con- 

 firmed the 'old garden' given by his 

 father ; ibid. no. 144. The same Robert 

 gave Jordan de Dutton, clerk, and Emma 

 his wife five ridges in the Heys between 

 land of Henry de Clayton and land held 

 in dower by the grantor's mother, Emma 

 widow of William de Dutton ; ibid, 

 no. 167. Further, in 1309 he released 

 his right in the land to Jordan and his 

 heirs by Emma formerly his wife ; ibid. 

 no. 142. It may be added that Jordan 

 had a son Thomas and a daughter Avice 

 or Alice ; to the son in 1321 he gave the 

 Old Orchard and land in Stonyfurlong ; 

 ibid. no. i6<;. About the same time he, 

 his son and his daughter made various 



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grants to Richard son of Amery and Alice 

 his wife ; ibid. no. 163, 166, 148. 

 Richard son of Ellis de Ribchester com- 

 plained in 1290 that Jordan the Clerk of 

 Dutton had disseised him of a tenement 

 in the township ; Assize R. 1288, m. 

 12. 



It appears that Robert de Dutton was 

 living in 1316 ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 149. 

 His son William seems to have been in 

 possession a year later; ibid. no. 141. 

 There was another son Thomas ; ibid. 

 no. 1 34. William son of Robert de 

 Dutton in 1321 claimed a tenement in 

 Dutton against William son of William 

 de Dutton ; De Banco R. 237, m. 72 d. ; 

 240, m. 261. 



The elder William de Dutton (father 

 of Robert) was defendant in 1279 ; De 

 Banco R. 30, m. 33d. He was perhaps 

 living in 1292, when Adam son of Richard 

 de Entwisle recovered seisin of certain 

 land against William de Dutton and 

 Robert son of Robert de Halghton ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 52. It appeared that 

 William had enfeoffed one Alimun, whose 

 daughters Avice and Agnes married re- 

 spectively Roger de Ribchester and John 

 de Whittingham, and forfeited the tene- 

 ment to Robert de Halghton. William 

 son of William de Dutton occurs down 

 to 1340; he had a son Thomas; Add. 

 MS. 32106, no. 140, 156. 



4 The alienation of the manor was made 

 by William de Dutton, for his son Robert 

 released to Henry de Clayton all right in 

 the vill of Dutton, 'which my father gave 

 to the said Henry'; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 129. 



Henry was probably the son of Ralph 

 de Clayton who together with his father 

 attested a Dutton charter about 1250; 

 ibid. no. 133. In 1292 he released to 

 Jordan the Clerk 8</. out of the gd. rent 

 due from land on Broadridding, and 

 the meadow which Jordan had by the 

 grant of Adam de Blackburn ; ibid. no. 

 161. 



Henry's sons appear to have had Dutton, 

 but the Huddleston family, who succeeded 



