AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



GARSTANG 



A school existed at Cross Hill as early as 1717, 

 and another was built at Scorton in 1793, each with 

 a small endowment. 76 



HOLLETH 



Holouth, 1326 ; Holuith, 1329 ; Holough, 1375. 



This township is entirely separated from the 

 main part of the parish by Forton in Cockerham, 

 and about 60 acres of its southern edge lie in the 

 latter parish. The area is 358^ acres, 1 and may 

 be said to consist of a hill reaching about 100 ft. 

 above sea level and sloping away to the boundary 

 on all sides. In 1901 the population numbered 

 twenty-five only. There is no considerable residence 

 within it. A minor road from Cockersand eastward 

 to join the north road from Preston to Lancaster 

 crosses the south-west corner, as does also the Kendal 

 Canal. 



The base of Buck's Cross remains, and the site of 

 another ancient cross is known. 1 



HOLLETH seems to have belonged to 

 M4NOR Forton.* There was never any manor, 

 but Holleth is named in 1345 among 

 the Rigmaiden properties. 4 It descended with 

 Wedacre, 5 and so came to the Gerards and Hamiltons, 

 lords of Wyresdale. At the sale in 1853 it was 

 purchased by Mr. Richard Cardwell Gardner of 

 Liverpool, who died in 1882.* 



The canons of Leicester had right of common in 

 Holleth in the parish of Garstang, but released it to 

 Thomas de Rigmaiden in consideration of an annual 

 rent of zosJ 



The Cawson family occur in the I7th century. 8 



CLEVELEY 



About a fourth part of this township, in the south- 

 east, lies within Garstang parish ; the remainder is 

 in Cockerham, where an account of the whole will 

 be given. 



CABUS 



Cayballes, 1328 ; Caboos, 1550. 



This township has an area of 1,388 acres, 9 and a 

 population of 171 according to the Census of 1901. 

 From the Wyre on the east the surface rises till about 

 100 ft. above the ordnance datum is attained and 

 then falls away to the west. The hamlet of Patten 

 Arms lies in the north-west corner. Two roads go 



through it from Garstang northwards, one to Lan- 

 caster, the other to Cockerham. The railway from 

 Preston to Lancaster crosses the north-east corner, 

 and the canal between the same places winds along 

 near the western side. 



Carr Holme in Cabus was added to Garstang in 

 1887 ; at the same time a detached part of Barnacre 

 with Bonds was added to Cabus. 10 



The soil is a heavy loam with clay subsoil. The 

 land is almost entirely in pasture. About 1880 there 

 was a tile manufactory worked by Mrs. Ormrod. 



The pedestal of an ancient cross remains near 

 cross roads on the north-west boundary. 11 



There was never any separate manor 

 M4NOR of C4BUS, but the courts for the lord- 

 ship of Nether Wyresdale were formerly 

 held here at Goberthwaite. 11 This place is named in 

 a grant by William son of Swain to his son Henry 

 the Clerk. 13 Cabus occurs in an agreement made in 

 I 340 between Dame Christiana de Lindsay and the 

 abbey of Leicester. 14 It descended with Nether 

 Wyresdale 14 and was purchased in 1853 by Peter 

 Ormrod. It is now owned by Captain Peter Ormrod. 



WINMARLEIGH 



Wynomerislega, Wynermerisle, 1212; Wimerleg, 

 1241 ; Winmerly, 1244; Wynnemerley, 1262; 

 Wymerlay, 1292. The accent is on the second 

 syllable. 



On the eastern side of this township the land is 

 50 ft. or more above sea level, and here is placed the 

 hall ; but westwards about two-thirds of the surface 

 lies below the 2 5 -ft. level, much of it being moss- 

 land. There is no village or considerable hamlet. 

 The area is 2,342^ acres, 1 and in 1901 there was 

 a population of 284. 



Northward through the eastern side go roads from 

 Garstang to Cockerham, and the west end is crossed 

 by one from the former place to Pilling ; these are 

 connected by another passing through the centre of 

 the township, having the hall on one side and the 

 church on the other. The Garstang and Knott End 

 single-line railway crosses the western corner, with a 

 station called Coglie Hill, and the Lancaster Canal 

 at one place bends so as to come within the north- 

 east boundary. 



The soil is clay and peat, with clay subsoil ; wheat 

 and potatoes are grown, but two-thirds of the land 

 is in pasture. 



For the convicted recusants in Nether 

 Wyresdale and Cabus c. 1670 see Misc. 

 (Cath. Rec. Soc.), v, 172-4. The names 

 include Baines, Blackburn, Cawthorne, 

 Cross, Hubbersty, Myerscough, Parkin- 

 son, Sykes and Windress. 



The Garstang churchwardens in 1755 

 reported a ' Papist chapel ' at Wyresdale ; 

 Visit. Ret. at Chester. 



75 End. Char. Rep. for Garstang, 7, 8. 



1 359 acres, including 2 of inland 

 water; Census Rep. 1901. 



2 Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xx, 209. 

 8 The place is named in an agreement 



as to tithes between Cockersand and 

 Leicester Abbeys in 1 242 ; Cockersand 

 Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 382. Also in 

 an agreement between Leicester Abbey 

 and Dame Christiana de Lindsay in 1320 ; 

 ibid, i, 299. 



4 In that year Thomas son of Marma- 



duke de Rigmaiden complained that 

 certain persons had broken his close 

 there ; De Banco R. 345, m. 152. A 

 similar complaint was made by Thomas 

 de Rigmaiden in 1375 against Edmund 

 de Washington ; ibid. 457, m. 34 d. 



4 It is named in the Rigmaiden inqui- 

 sitions as a dependency of their manor 

 in Garstang. John Rigmaiden in 1583 

 complained of destruction of his wood in 

 Holleth ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 

 149. 



6 Fishwick, Garstang (Chet. Soc.), 33. 



7 Cockerham charter* in MS. Laud. 

 H 72, fol. 48. 



8 Richard Cawson in 1647 and John 

 and George Cawson of Cocker House in 

 1663-4, tenants of the manor of Nether 

 Wyresdale ; W. Farrer's D. 



9 1,392 acres, including 20 of inland 

 water; Census Rep. 1901. 



305 



10 By Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 20097. 



11 Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xx, 207. 

 1J See the account of Nether Wyresdale. 

 " Add. MS. 32106, no. 806. The 



grantor gave all his land in Gubisthwaite 

 (otherwise Goberthwaite or Gubber- 

 thwaite) within these bounds : From 

 Gubisthwaite Pool, up the River Wyre 

 to Drypool, by Drypool to the carr, 

 round it to the pool which falls by 

 Hagrimai, and down that pool to Gubis- 

 thwaite Pool. The land was to be held 

 as three-eighths of an oxgang where 

 24 carucates made a knight's fee. 



14 Cockersand CAartu/.(Chet. Soc.), 1,299. 



15 Cabus and Goberthwaite are both 

 named among Walter Rigmaiden' a lands 

 in 1587 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, 

 no. 5. 



1 2,343 acres, including 7 of inland 

 water 5 Census Rep. 1901. 



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