A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



In 1610 Robert Holden of Holden and Nicholas 

 Grimshaw of Clayton-le-Moors made an agreement 

 for the allotment of the wastes of Eccleshill." 



The Cuerdale family had a small estate here in the 

 1 3th century, which passed with their estates to the 

 Osbnldestons. John Osbaldeston sold it in 1593 to 

 Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe, kt.,"' in whose 

 descendants it has remained, being now in the pos- 

 session of Lord Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe. 



Several of the small freeholders of Over Darwen 

 had lands in Eccleshill ; Mr. Abram gives some 

 account of them in the History of Blackburn. 



Cecily de Grimshaw and two others contributed to 

 the poll tax of 1379. Only thirty-one he.irths were 

 taxed here in 1666. In 1779 Mr. Hamer Taylor 

 and others answered for the ancient rent of \s. payable 

 yearly to the bailiff of Salford Hundred. 



YATE AND PICKUP BANK 



This township was formerly part of Hoddlesden in 

 Over Darwen, but became separate and considered 

 extra-parochial, as part of the forest of Rossendale. 

 Yate Bank, containing an area of 413 acres, and 

 Pickup Bank, adjoining it on the south, and contain- 

 ing 437 acres, together constitute one township, and 

 derive their respective names from the situation upon 

 banks or spurs of the moorland hills, which here slope 

 steeply to the west to Hoddlesden Brook. The 

 summit of Yate Bank at Belthorn rises over 1,000 ft. 

 above the ordnance datum, and Pickup Bank Height, 

 or Greet Hill, to over 1,100 ft. on Edgerton Moss. 

 The subsoil of the former consists of the Coal 

 Measures, of the latter mainly of the Millstone Grit. 

 The soil is clayey and the land pasture, with some 

 meadow-land. The scattered habitations are con- 

 nected by lanes with the main roads of the adjoining 

 townships. The population in 1901 numbered 

 603 persons.' The nearest railway station is at 

 Daruen, 2 to 3 miles distant. 



At Quaker Fold is a small burial-ground of the 

 Society of Friends, containing about forty graves and 

 several inscribed stones in memory of one of the 

 numerous local families of Yates ; at Red Earth, in 

 Yate Bank, there is a similar burial-ground, which 

 formerly belonged to and was used by the family of 

 Scoles. 



There are reservoirs belonging to the Blackburn 

 Corporation, below Hoddlesden, on the brook of that 

 name, and below Ooze Castle Wood, on Tinkler 

 Brook, between Yate Bank and Pickup Bank. 



There were two houses having as many as three 

 hearths liable to the tax in 1666. 



There is a parish council. 



The trustees of the fifth Duke of Buccleugh are the 

 oivners of the soil, and Mr. Atherton West is the 

 principal landowner. The land is entirely of copy- 



hold tenure of the honor of Clitheroe. There is no 

 manor, because the township originally formed part of 

 the great free chase known as the fnrcst of Rossen- 

 dale. The scanty particulars of its history have been 

 recorded above, under Hoddlesden in Over Darwen. 



The division of the booth into two parts is first 

 recorded in a list of the tenants made about 1630, 

 from \\hich it appears that there were then seven 

 tenants in ' Piccoppbank in Hodlesden ' paying rents 

 amounting to j^3 5^. %d., and nineteen tenants in 

 ' Yatebanke in Hodlesden ' paying rents amounting 

 to £(> 1 4/. o\d} 



The Parliamentary commissioners of 1650 reported 

 that Yatebank and Piccopbank, part of the forest of 

 Rossendale, were parcel of the rector)- of Blackburn, 

 their tithes worth to the farmer of the tithes ^^5 per 

 annum. 



Mr. Abram has given some account of the different 

 families of Yates and Holden, who were for .t long 

 period the principal copyholders of the township.' 



The places of worship have been mentioned in 

 the account of Darwen. On the Indulgence in 

 1672 licence was granted for a Presbyterian meeting 

 at the house of John Durden at Yate Bank.' 



TOCKHOLES 



Tokolles, xii cent. ; Tocholles, Thocholes, Tok- 

 holes, xiii-xvi cent. 



The township lies upon the steep slopes and spurs 

 of the moorlands to the south of Livesey and 

 extends southward a distance of 3 miles to the 

 boundaries of Sharpies and Longworth in the 

 hundred of Salford. From Cartridge Hill on the 

 south, where the elevation reaches 1,316 ft. above 

 the ordnance datum, and along the western side of 

 the township the land slopes steeply to the River 

 Roddlesworth, which, flowing down a narrow valley, 

 forms the boundary against Withnell in Leyland 

 Hundred. Where the township ends by the river in 

 the north-cast the elevation is less than 350 ft. 

 above sea level. On the east a brook rising on 

 Cartridge Hill and flowing below Darwen Moor 

 down Earnsdale forms the boundary against Over 

 Darwen. Part of the Earnsdale reservoir of the 

 Darwen Corporation is within the township ; so too 

 are the three reservoirs of the Liverpool Corporation on 

 the course of the River Roddlesworth, which are 

 connected with the more extensive reservoirs at 

 Rivington belonging to that corporation. The sub- 

 soil consists of the Millstone Grit, and on Winter 

 Hill between the village of Tockholes and Lower 

 Darwen of the Coal Measures ; the soil varies from 

 clay to peat and sand. The lower-lying land consists 

 of meadow and pasture, the higher of bent grass and 

 heath. There is some woodland in the Roddles- 

 worth valley and in the ravines which connect with 



'* Robert Holden's share was only 

 10 acres, adjoining on the south-east to 

 his lands in Over Darwen called Hodlesden 

 Heyes ; the remainder was awarded 

 mainly to Nicholas Grimshaw, together 

 with a parcel of waste in Over Darwen 

 near the south-east end of the moor 

 ' above certaine meare stones called the 

 Br}'destones ' j Towneley MS. GO, no. 

 1 1 80. 



•6 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 55, 

 m. 32 ; described as two messuages, 160 

 acres of land, &c., in Eccleshill and Over 



Darwen. See Shuttlrworth Accts. (Chct. 

 Soc. old ser. xxxv), 80. 



^ CensusRep. 1901. The area according 

 to the new survey is 852 acres, including 

 1 3 of inland water, 



2 Hon. of Clitheroe MS. 330. In Pickup 

 Bank Robert Houlden, esq., 8j. ; Andrew 

 Houlden, 8*^.; Thomas Fish, 13J. 8(/. ; 

 George Houlden, 1 6s. j James Walmesley, 

 1 31. id. ; John Aynesworth, 6s. id. ; 

 John Houlden, 71. 



In Yate Bank — Richard Yates, 6s. ; 

 James Yates, 6s. ; widow Yates, sen., 



280 



3J. ; widow Yates, jun., gj, ; Jamei 

 Coupe, I2J. 4^/, ; Henry Aytalgh, 6*. td. \ 

 James Kershawe, zj. 6d. \ John Yate, 

 14J. 6d. } Thomas Fish, i6j. 6d. ; Thomas 

 Houlden, 41. lo^d. ; William White, id. ; 

 John Broughton, 51. 6d. ; William 

 Houlden, u. j William Rothwell, 171. %d.\ 

 William Yates, 171. %d. ; Thomas 

 Pickering, 31. \od. ; Henry Rylcy, 

 31. lod. ; widow Hargreaves, 2j. %d. \ 

 William Sampson, td. 



^ Blackburn^ 762. 



* Cal. S. P. Dom. 1672, p. 578. 



