WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



WINWICK 



The Wesleyan Methodists have a church, Brunswick, 

 at Earlestown ; and the Primitive Methodists also 

 have one there. The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists 

 have a place of worship at Earlestown ; as also have 

 the Welsh Baptists. The English Baptists have a 

 chapel in Newton, where there is also a Free Gospel 

 mission room. 



Occasional preaching by Congregational ministers 

 began in 1806, the steps of the town cross being the 

 pulpit till the constable interfered, but there was no 

 chapel till 1842. A new church was built in 1878, 

 largely through the benefactions of the family of 

 Richard Evans, the great colliery proprietors.'' In 

 the churchyard is a fine monument of Mr. Evans 

 erected by his workpeople. 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Mary and 

 St. John, built in 1864, originated about three years 

 earlier." 



HAYDOCK 



Hedoc, 1 1 69; Heddoch, 11 70; Haidoc, 12 12. 

 The local pronunciation is Haddock. 



This township has an area of 2,409 acres.' From 

 its situation between Newton and Ashton it seems to 

 have been cut off from the former township. Clips- 

 ley Brook separates it from Garswood in Ashton, and 

 Sankey Brook forms the south-west boundary. The 

 population in 1 901 numbered 8,575. 



Haydock is varied in its natural features, some- 

 times undulating, sometimes flat. On the west the 

 surroundings are unpicturesque but typical of a 

 colliery country, scattered over with pit-banks and 

 shafts of mines. On the east the country is pleasanter, 

 with fields and plantations, and in this part is the 

 locally celebrated race-course of Haydock Park. 

 Crops of oats, wheat, potatoes, and cabbages seem to 

 be the principal produce of the clayey soil. The 

 geological formation consists largely of the Coal 

 Measures, but the old Haydock Park and a small area 

 to the west of the main road leading from Newton to 



Ashton in Makerfield lie upon the Bunter series of 

 the New Red Sandstone. 



The principal road, all along lined with dwellings, 

 is that from St. Helens, passing east and north-east 

 through Blackbrook and Haydock village to meet the 

 great north and south road from Wigan to Warring- 

 ton. The Liverpool, St. Helens and South Lanca- 

 shire Railway, worked by the Great Central Company, 

 passes through the township, and has a station at 

 Haydock ; and two others, called Ashton in Makerfield 

 and Haydock Park, on the boundary of Ashton. An 

 electric tramway service connects it with St. Helens. 

 The St. Helens Canal goes by the side of Sankey Brook. 



Coal-mining is the great industry of the place. 



A local board was formed in 1872,' and in 1894 

 became an urban district council of twelve members. 



Haydock Lodge is now a lunatic asylum. A cot- 

 tage hospital was opened in 1886. A stone celt was 

 found here.' 



The manor of HJrOOCK was a 

 MANORS dependency or member of the fee of 

 Newton.^ The first distinct notice of 

 it is in 1 168, when Orm de Haydock had paid two 

 out of the 10 marks due from him to the aid for 

 marrying the king's daughter.' 

 He granted land called Cayley 

 to the Hospitallers." His son 

 Alfred took a surname from 

 Ince, in which his demesne 

 lay ; and Haydock was divided 

 between Hugh and William 

 de Haydock, who were in 

 possession in 1212.' 



The manor was held in 

 moieties from an early time. 

 The later Haydock family'" 

 descended from Hugh. Wil- 

 liam's descendants' died or 

 sold their interest in the middle of the 1 3th century * 

 to Thurstan de Holland, whose son Robert held also, 

 as it seems, a mesne lordship over the whole of Hay- 

 dock." This manor descended to the male heirs of 



Haydock of Hay- 

 dock. Argent a cross 

 *u;ith a Jleur-de-Us sable 

 in the first quarter^ 



'^ Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf, iv, 144. 

 Richard Evans of Haydock died in 1864 ; 

 his sons Joslah and Joseph in 1873 and 

 1889. One of the daughters married 

 Richard Pilkington of Windle ; the other, 

 I Ruth, built the memorial churches at 

 Rainhill and Haydock. 



^^ The ancient religion appears to have 

 died out very quickly in this township. 

 Thomas Langton, Baron of Newton, was 

 in 1590 *in general note of evil affection 

 in religion,' though * in some degree of 

 conformity' ; his wife was a ' recusant and 

 indicted thereof.' Peter Legh of Lyme, 

 who had juat succeeded his grandfather, 

 had married a daughter of Sir Gilbert 

 Gerard, Master of the Rolls, a decided 

 Protestant, and was ' of great good hope ; ' 

 Lydiate Hall, 243, 244, 247 ; for the 

 Langton family see further, pp. 258, 260. 

 The recusant roll of 1641 gives only one 

 name in Newton ; Trans. Hist. Soc. (new 

 ser.), xiv, 244. 



Roger Ashton of Newton in 1653 

 petitioned to be allowed to contract for 

 his estate, two-thirds having been seques- 

 tered for recusancy ; Royalist Comp. Papers, 

 i, 112. 



^ 2,41 1, including 30 of inland water ; 

 Census of 1901. 



2 Lond. Gax. 16 July 1872. 



^ Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. v, 329. 



■* y.C.H, Lanes, i, 366 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc), i, 138; ibid. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 105. 



' FiLTTeT, Lanes. Pipe R. 12. The arrears 

 in 1 171 were pardoned, because he was 

 poor ; ibid. 23. 



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

 Lanes, and Ches.), i. 74. 



7 Ibid. loc. cit. Haydock appears to 

 have been rated as two plough-lands, one 

 each being held by Hugh and William de 

 Haydock. The services required of them 

 are not stated, but Alfred de Ince held his 

 three plough-lands (including Haydock) by 

 30J. and providing two judges. The grants 

 are described as * of ancient feoffment,' 

 i.e., originating before the death of 

 Henry I. 



?* See below. Numerous deeds of the 

 family are in possession of the Leghs of 

 Lyme ; these were transcribed by the late 

 Canon Raines, and may be seen in vol. 

 xxxviii of his collections, now in the Chet. 

 Lib. Manchester. 



s The Andrew de Haydock who had a 

 son Geoffrey, to whom he gave half of 

 Longshawhead ; and a son-in-law Hugh 

 son of Hugh de Haydock, who had married 

 his daughter Cecily, may have been one 

 of William's descendants ; Raines MSS. 



xxxviii, 37, 150. To him there was a 

 release by William son of William de 

 Haydock; ibid. 219, Andrew de Hay- 

 dock was a juror ia 1246 ; Assize R. 

 404, m. 16. 



^ Thurstan de Holland made ^ants to 

 William his son ; Raines, loc. cit. 22^, 

 229. Joan wife of William de Multon 

 claimed land in Haydock in 1325-6 as 

 her dower after the death of William dc 

 Holland, her previous husband ; Inq. p.m. 

 19 Edw. II, no. 96. 



10 Robert son of Thurstan de Holland 

 described himself as *lord of Haydock' in 

 1282 on making a grant to John son of 

 John de Orrell of land by Eynlues Clough; 

 Raines MSS. xxxviii, 231. Sir Robert de 

 Holland, at his forfeiture in 1322, held half 

 the manor of Haydock of John de Lang- 

 ton and Alice his wife for 6j. %d, ; Inq. 

 p.m. 18 Edw. II, no. 68. That the lord- 

 ship extended also over the moiety held 

 by the Haydock family is shown by the 

 inquiry into an alienation to the priory 

 of Burscough in 1346, when it was found 

 that there remained to Gilbert de Hay- 

 dock the manor of Haydock, held of Sir 

 Robert de Holland by the service of loj. 

 yearly. Sir Robert holding it of Sir 

 Robert de Langton by the same service ; 

 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw, III (2nd nos.), no. 59. 



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