LEYLAND HUNDRED 



For the Church of England St. Paul's was built in 

 a central position in 1841,' and St. Luke's .it 

 Brmscall in 1887,^ as a chapel of ease. The vicar 

 of Leyland has the patronage. 



There are Wesleyan Methodist chapels at Withnell 

 Fold, Withnell Mill and Brinscall, and Free Methodist 

 chapels at Brinscall and Abbey village. 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Joseph was 

 built in 1884.' 



WHEELTON 



Quelton, 1276; Whelton, 1292: these are the 

 usual forms ; Quilton, 1313 ; Wheleton (xv cent.). 



Wheelton stretches south-east from the valley of 

 the Lostock, the north-west boundary, over a hill 

 rising to 650 ft. above sea level, across the valley in 

 which Brinscall lies, and up to very near ihe summit 

 of the Great Hill, 1,200 ft., on the border of Angle- 

 zarke in Bolton parish. The total area is 1,696* 

 acres, and the population in 1901 numbered 1,375. 

 The village lies by the Lostock, in the north-west 

 corner, and has the hamlet of Wheelton Stocks to the 

 north-east. 



The principal road is that through the village, 

 going from Chorley to Blackburn. The Leeds and 

 Liverpool Canal goes near it, through the Lostock 

 valley. The railway from Chorley to Cherry Tree 

 runs north-east through the centre of the township. 



The soil is partly light and clayey, the subsoil 

 rocky ; wheat and barley are grown. The excellent 

 stone quarries have long been known and worked. 

 There are large cotton mills and bleaching and calico 

 printing works. 



LEYLAND 



Forty-one hearths were charged for the hearth 

 tax in 1666; the largest house, that of Henry 

 Hoghton, had eight.' 



The township is governed by a parish council. 



Daniel Henry Haigh was born at Brinscall Hall 

 in 1 8 19, his father being a calico printer. Intended 

 for the Anglican ministry he was influenced by the 

 Tractarian movement and received into communion 

 with the Roman Church in 1 847, being afterwards 

 ordained. He became the chief English authority 

 on Runic inscriptions, and was the author of numerous 

 antiquarian essays. He died at Erdington, near 

 Birmingham, in 1879, being the founder of the 

 Benedictine house there." 



WHEELTON was formerly a part of 

 MANOR Gunolfsmoors,' and held by the lords of 

 Hoghton as part of their moiety of a 

 knight's fee.* They acquired lands in the township 

 from the Wheelton family,' but do not seem to have 

 accounted their estate to be a separate manor. Roger 

 de Stanworth by his marriage with one of the co-heirs 

 of Withnell acquired also a large part of Wheelton,'" 

 and this seems to have been given to Stanlaw Abbey.'' 

 Thus at the suppression of Whalley Abbey the ' manoi 

 of Wheelton ' was among its possessions, and was in 

 '539-+° sold to Sir Richard Hoghton," after 

 which it was enumerated in the list of Hoghton 

 manors, but no separate tenure is recorded." It 

 appears to have been sold in the i8th century, and 

 to have descended with Withnell. 



John de Clayton is said to have granted to Edmund 

 de Lacy, lord of Clitheroe, the services of his tenants 

 in Wheelton.'* Henry de Lea in 1288 held an 



' A district was assigned to it in the 

 following year ; Land. Gas:. 3 May 1842. 

 ' From a note in the Chester Diocesan 

 Registry it appears that Brinscall Hall 

 was in 1 71 3 ' a licensed place for divine 

 service * ; Becconsall papers. 



^ The list of recusants in Hoghton 

 and Withnell in 1628 is printed in Mhc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 183. 



* 1,625 3Cres, including 12 of inland 

 water ; Census Rep. 1901. Part of the 

 township was added to Withnell in 1899 j 

 Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 39579. 

 ^ Subs. R. 250, no. 9. 

 « Gillow, BiU. Diet, of Engl. Cach. iii, 

 84 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



^ See the account of Hoghton. 

 » Feud. Aids, iii, 86. 

 ^ Among the Hoghton charters in Add. 

 MS. 32106 occur the following undated 

 grants to Adam de Hoghton : Gilbert son 

 of Richard son of Amabel de Wheelton, 

 release of half an oxgang of land (no. 

 918) ; John son of Gilbert de Wheelton, 

 an oxgang of land held of Adam (no. 785) ; 

 Robert son of John de Wheelton, release 

 of an oxgang held of Adam (no. 396) ; 

 Henry son of John de Wheelton, all his 

 land in the township (no. 908) ; Siegrith 

 widow of John de Wheelton and mother 

 of Robert, an oxgang of land once held by 

 Amabel daughter of Aldrit de Wheelton 

 (no. 27) ; Richard son of Adam de 

 Wheelton half his land with the services 

 of Warine de Lea, Henry de Wheelton 

 and Adam de Legh (no. 371 — (?) 1275) ; 

 Adam son of Henry de Wheelton, or * de 

 Legh of Wheelton,' Kilncarr and Croy- 

 lanhurst (no. 25, 644) ; Alice daughter of 

 Richard de Wheelton all right in land 

 which her father (? brother) Alexander 

 de Wheelton gave in free marriage to her 



late husband Roger son of Richard de 

 Goldene, and in a messuage and ' land ' 

 given by Adam son of Henry de Wheel- 

 ton (no. 641) ; Richard son of Henry de 

 Withnell gave Sir Adam two parts of the 

 third of an oxgang of land in Germons- 

 halgh (no. 864, 921) ; Richard son of 

 Roger de Lever also gave a release (no. 

 912). 



Sir Richard de Hoghton in 1319-20 

 gave three-fourths of Whithill in Wheel- 

 ton to Robert son of Adam de Rivington ; 

 ibid. no. 737. In 1337 he granted land 

 approved from the waste, called Kilncarr, 

 to Thomas son of Hugh de Stanworth ; 

 ibid. no. 717. Adam de Hoghton in 

 1374 gave the Whithill to William del 

 Green and Richard son of John Henryson 

 for their lives ; ibid. no. 738. 



A moiety of the manor of Wheelton is 

 named in a Hoghton settlement of 1 3 1 3 ; 

 Final Cone, ii, 14. 



A water-mill at Wheelton was part of 

 the Hoghton estate in 15 10; Kuerden's 

 fol. MS. p. 387, S. 



'^ His share or his wife's was Brinscall, 

 Mounsill (Monkshill), Wallcroft and 

 Brightfold ; Whalley Coucher, iii, 830. 



'^ Adam de Withnell gave to Stanlaw 

 an oxgang of land called Brinscall (Brend- 

 scholes), the bounds going from Windy- 

 gates down to Wellsylce, and up this syke 

 and by the old ditch round to the starting- 

 point ; Whalley Couiher, iii, 835. Jobi 

 de Westleigh and Richard son of John ue 

 Westleigh of Stanworth (nephew of Adam 

 de Withnell, and the same as Richard de 

 Ollerton) confirmed the grant ; ibid, iii, 

 837. 



Richard son of Joh« de Westleigh gave 

 the monks an oxgang of land called 

 Mounsill (MonkeshuUes) for a rent of 



4y 



izd. ; and Henry son of Adam de Rixton 

 gave a release of his right in both the 

 above lands j ibid, iii, 838. 



Margery daughter of William son of 

 Alan (de Withnell) gave to her nephew 

 Thomas son of Adam an oxgang of land 

 in Wheelton called Wheelcroft, the bounds 

 beginning at Catshawsyke, going down to 

 Burton Brook and as far as Rutingsyke, 

 thence going up to Crowhaw and so to 

 Blacklache and the starting-point, at a 

 rent of 9^. The same Thomas de With- 

 nell gave the land to Stanlaw, the monks 

 to pay the <^d. to Henryson of Margery ; 

 ibid, iii, 839-41. A number of releases 

 by various persons followed (ibid.), in- 

 cluding one by the tenant, Victor son of 

 Roger son of Austin about 1280; ibid, 

 iii, 843. 



Richard de Wheelton in 1276 com- 

 plained that the Abbot of Stanlaw had 

 disseised him of common of pasture, but 

 a verdict for the abbot was recorded ; 

 Assize R. 405^ m, 4 d. 



^- See the grant quoted above in the 

 account of Withnell, 



Sir Richard Hoghton in 1553 gave his 

 manor of Wheelton to his younger son 

 Thomas for life, the grant Including lands 

 in Withnell called Brandwood, &c. j Add, 

 MS. 32106, no. 712. 



^^ e.g. in 1590 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. XV, no. 39. Wheelton is named 

 among the Hoghton manors in a recovery 

 in 1711 J Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 493, 

 m. 6. 



Brinscall was sold in 1602 to Sir 

 Edward Brabazon of Nether Whitacre ; 

 Raines D. in Chet. Lib. 



^* Duchy of Lane. Misc. Books, cxxx, 

 fol. zib. The tenants were Alexander 

 son of Henry and Roger son of John, and 



