BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



BLACKBURN 



Starkik of Hunt- 

 royde. Argent a betid 

 sable betzueen six storks 

 proper. 



Winder of Loveley, who in 1757 sold the estate to 

 Piers Starkle of Huntroyde " ; it is now the property 

 of Mr. Edmund Arthur Le 

 Gendre Starkie. 



Loveley Hall is a two-story 

 stone-built house with stone 

 slated roofs, erected probably 

 in the first half of the 17th 

 century, but very much altered 

 about a hundred years later 

 and again in the latter half of 

 the igth century. The 

 original plan was H -shaped, 

 but many of the external 

 features of the building were 

 changed about the year 1735, 

 when the front assumed more 



or less of its present aspect. The mullioned windows 

 in the upper floor were then done away with, square 

 sash windows inserted, and a plain straight parapet, 

 the top forming a moulded cornice ornamented with 

 classic vases, was added, the gables being similarly 

 ornamented with vase terminations. Two well- 

 designed spout heads with the date 1735 and the 

 initials of John Winder and his wife between the 

 windows in the recessed portion of the front give 

 a good deal of 18th-century character to the 

 elevation, which, however, retains its mullioned and 

 transomed windows on the ground floor. In 1874 

 further changes took place, when a porch was built 

 in front of the central square-headed doorway, 

 a bay window going up both stories was added 

 on the front of the east wing, and the building 

 was extended further eastward by the addition of 

 another gable to the front. At the same time the 

 interior was almost wholly renovated, and now pre- 

 serves little or nothing of its early appearance. A 

 large one-story bay window was also added on the 

 west side, and extensions were made at the back, 

 two new gables being built out from the recessed 

 portion in front of the end wings. The fireplace 

 at the east end of the hall is 10 ft. wide, with a 

 stone arch 6 ft. 6 in. high, on which is carved the 

 date 1 71 2. The fireplace, however, is now lined 

 with modern tiles, and the fittings of the hall and 

 other rooms on the ground floor, which is only 

 8 ft. high, are generally of the revived Gothic style 

 prevalent at the time the work was carried out. 



An octagonal stone sundial on the lawn in front 

 of the house bears the date 1668 together with the 

 initials C.H. and R.S. and a blank shield on the 

 shaft. The same date also occurs on the plate. The 

 shaft is similar in design to one at Huntroyde. 



BOLTON HALL stands in a low and sheltered 

 situation to the north of the high road on the left 

 bank of the small stream called the Park Brook, and 

 is a two-story farm-house with low mullioned windows 

 and stone slated overhanging roof. The walling is 

 of rough stone with squared quoins at the angles, and 

 all the windows have hood moulds and diamond-shaped 

 lead lights. The front elevation is about 60 ft. in 



length, and the projecting porch, the roof of which 

 is a continuation of that of the house, is considerably 

 out of the centre, there being a window of five lights 

 on one side and two windows of seven and five lights 

 respectively on the other. The porch is an open 

 one with a stone seat on each side, and over 

 the four- centred arch is the date 1655 with the 

 initials l^^,. 



In 1592 the following persons were presented and 

 amerced for absence from church : Nicholas Bolton, 

 gent. ; Adam Bolton, yeoman ; Lancelot Bolton, 

 yeoman ; Nathaniel Lee, yeoman ; Adam Bolton, 

 yeoman, and Jane his wife ; Anna Garden and Cicely 

 Shorrock, Richard Asshe, smith, and Rosamund wife 

 of Thomas Southworth, esq.'^ 



The oratory and portable altar mentioned in 

 1406-8 do not seem to have led to the building of 

 any public chapel. 



The ecclesiastical parish of St. Peter, Salesbury, was 

 formed in 1842 as a district chapelry of Salesbury, 

 Wilpshire, Osbaldeston (since taken out), Clayton-le- 

 Dale and Dlnckley townships.'^ The parochial 

 chapel of St. Peter was built in i 806 and consecrated 

 the year following.^'' In 1882 the present church 

 was erected upon the site of the old. The registers 

 date from 1807. The living is a vicarage in the 

 gift of the vicar of Blackburn. Adjoining the 

 church are National schools erected in 1 848, enlarged 

 In 1894 and again in 1899. 



CLAYTON-LE-DALE 



Cleyton, 1243 ; Claiton, 1246 ; Clayton, 1258 ; 

 Cleyton or Clayton (by Ribchester), xiv-xvii cent. 



The township extends from the boundary of 

 Button on the north-west across the River Ribble ^ 

 for a distance of 3 miles to the south-east, rising from 

 about 75 ft. above the ordnance datum at the river 

 bed to nearly 500 ft. on the borders of Wilpshire. 

 The area of the township on both sides of the river 

 is 1,714-^ acres, and the population in 1901 was 311 

 persons.^ The Yoredale rocks underlie portions of 

 the higher part of the township, the Millstone Grit 

 the remainder. The land is parcelled out in small 

 farms devoted to the production of dairy produce. 

 There is some woodland on the brows and in the 

 ravines by the river.' The high road from Clltheroe 

 to Preston traverses the township with a cross road 

 leading northward to Ribchester and towards the 

 south-east to Wilpshire station, on the Bolton and 

 Clltheroe branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire 

 Company's railway, which serves this township. 

 There are traces of a Roman road — known in 

 mediaeval times as the ' Stanystrete ' — leading from 

 the river opposite Ribchester in the direction of 

 Blackburn. The principal houses are Showley Hall, 

 New Hall, Clayton Hey, Showley Fold and Har- 

 wood Fold. In 1842 the township was included in 

 the district chapelry of St. Peter, Salesbury.* 



In the 1 6th and 1 7th centuries ' Clayton-in-le- 

 Dale-cum-Showley ' was rated as a joint township. 



^ Information of Mr. H. Ince Ander- 

 ton, from the deeds at Huntroyde. 



55 Exch. L.T.R. 34 Eliz. Recus. 

 Roll. 



55 Land. Gax. 20 Sept. 1842. Osbal- 

 deston was taken out of this parish and 

 joined to Balderston in 1892. 



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57 Abram, Blackburn, 656. Dr. T. D, 

 Whitaker preached the consecration ser- 

 mon, which was printed. 



1 This may be partially due to changes 

 in the course of the river, possibly also to 

 very ancient apportionments of meadow 

 ground by the riverside. 



257 



2 Including 33 acres of inland water ; 

 Census Rep. igoi. 



^ The agricultural returns of 1905 give 

 arable land 2 acres, permanent grass 1,570 

 acres, woods and plantations 53 acres. 



* Land. Gaz, 20 Sept. 1842. 



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