A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



STAN DISH WITH LAXGTREE 



SHEVIXGTON 



WELCH WHITTLE 



STANDISH 



CHARNOCK RICHARD 



DUXBURY 



HEATH CHARNOCK 



ADLINGTON 



ANDFRTOX 



WORTIIIXGIOX 



COPPULL 



The parish of Standish has an area of 15,377^ 

 acres, and its population in 1 901 numbered 18,496. 

 It is curious that the township of Wigan, physically 

 belonging to Standish, has always lain in another 

 parish and hundred. On the formation of the 

 barony of Penwortham, about 1 1 00, the whole of 

 this parish was included within it, except the town- 

 ships of Worthington and CoppuU, which were given 

 to Manchester. Though one of the ancient roads to 

 the north passes through it,l its history has been 

 comparatively uneventful, but the Reformation and 



the Revolution met with much quiet oppoiition. 

 The Young Pretender in 1745 mnrched through the 

 p.irish, but obtained no adherents from it. The 

 Duke of Cumberland marched through in pursuit, 

 and the bells were rung. The district has remained 



to a great extent agricultural, but coal-mining and 

 manufactures have long been carried on.- The 

 agricultural land in the parish is now used as follows : 

 — Arable, 4,532 acres; permanent grass, 8,460; 

 woods and plantations, 598.' 



The ancient 'fifteenth" from the parish amounted 

 to £6 I 2/. J^^d. when the hundred paid /30 I is. id.'*; 

 while to the county lay of 1624 this parish paid 

 two-ninths of the sum levied from the hundred.' 



The principal landowner contributing to the 

 subsidy of 1525 was Ralph Standish of Standish, but 

 many others are named in the 

 parish.* Several recusants com- 

 pounded in 1628.' 



Dr. Kuerdcn in his itinerary, 

 \vritten about 1690, mentions 

 several of the features of the 

 district': — 'Having passed 

 Standish you come to the 

 Quakers . . . then crossing a 

 little arched bridge of stone 

 you pass over Coppull Moor, 

 and on the right hand leave 

 IMainscough Hall belonging to 

 the ancient family of the Worth- 

 iiigtons, a little above which 

 stands Coppull Chapel and near 

 to it the ancient seat of the 

 Prcscotts, now the estate and 

 residence of Captain Ward. 

 You next cross Whittle Water, 

 which running eastward meets 

 with the Douglas in Adlington ; 

 then you meet with another 

 road coming from Chisnall and 

 pass by the Park Hall in Char- 

 nock belonging to a younger 

 branch of the family of the 

 Hoghtons of the Tower, and going on towards 

 Charnock Green, 5 miles from Wigan, you arrive 

 at Charnock bowling-green, leaving the Old Hall of 

 Charnock uhose barn is a land-mark to those on 

 the western seas. (N.B. Mr. Richard Brooke and 



' The old Roman road from Wjsn to 

 \V,i:ton->-D. >. A hoard of coins was 

 found near StTndish ; C. Leigh, Aj.'. 

 H:sr. of Lanes, bk. iii, 8l ; Watkin, Rirn. 

 Lanes. 2 38. 



' Aikin, C:ur.:ry r:wJ Ma-.ch. 291. 



' The figures for the west and north- 

 west part of the parish are ;,;43, 5,4-0 

 and ■^64 acres respectively, and for the 

 eastern part 9S9, ^,060 and 254 acres; 

 Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



* Gregson, f rtf_^fn£j (ed. Harland), 19. 

 The details are : Standish and Langtree 

 ^l 2J. S^i., Coppull and Worthington 

 1^1 91. Si, Shevington 181. 5^., Dnibun- 

 and ,-\i'in£rton 1 -i. 4*/., Welch Whittle 

 -f. I 1./., Ch rn tk Richirl Ig;^ Heath 

 Ch:imock 17J. 4.:'., Andertoo llx. Si. 



' Ibid. 22. When the hundred paid 

 ,^100 Standish with Langtree [-aid 

 j^3 191. "i i., Coppull and Worthington 

 £^ OS. 6| /., Duxbury and Adlington 

 £% 14J. '^Ji., Shevington and Welch 

 VVhittle £-1, 14J. id., Charnock Richard 

 £z 1 5 J. 6|i., Heath Charnock and 

 Andcrton ^"4 os. id. 



' Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 130, no. 86. The 

 other landowners contributing, arranged 

 according to amounts, were : James 

 Standish, Roger Asshaw, James Hale, 

 Matthew Standish, Richard Worthington, 

 Oliver Anderton, John Waring, Richard 

 Worthington of Blainscough, John Chis- 

 nall, Nichcas Worthington, Richard 

 Langtree, Ralph .Arrowsmith, Robert 

 V^n 1:, Hugh Adlinpton, Hugh Wood- 



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ward, Alexander Street and Lawrence 

 Bimson. 



^ For the sequestered two-thirds of 

 their estates William Anderton of Ander- 

 ton was to pay £20 a year, William 

 Hoghton of Park HaU £\6 131. ^d., 

 Thomas and Isabel Langtree of Langtree 

 ,^10 and £6 respectively. The following 

 also compounded : In Standish Thomas 

 Standish ^4, Edward Standish £z, Wil- 

 liam Mascroft £2 ; and in Worthineton 

 William Worthington ^6 I 31. \J. Those 

 who conformed were James Banister of 

 Park Hall, Miles Green of Shevington, 

 John Radcliffe of Charnock and Janet 

 Shaw of Standish ; Trans. Hist. Sot. (new 

 ser.), xx!\, 17^. 



^ Z-of. Glean, Lanes, and Ches. i, 2 1 1 . 220. 



