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It.* There are no main roads, but an inferior road 

 from Livesey runs through the middle of the 

 township and joins the main road from Preston to 

 Bolton beyond Hollinshead Hall at the southern- 

 most point of the township. The nearest station is 

 at Feniscowles for the northern part of the township, 

 and Withnell for the southern, both on the Cherry 

 Tree and Chorley joint line of the Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire and London and North Western Railway 

 Companies. 



Tockholes was anciently rated a joint township 

 with Livesey, but has been a separate township since 

 the end of the 17th century. 



The area is 1,988 acres, and the population in 

 1 90 1 numbered 496 persons.^ 



The township has a parish council. 



In the first half of the 13 th century 

 MANOR this manor is found in the possession of a 

 family bearing the local name and of the 

 Pleasington family, each holding a half, the tenure 

 being thegnage and the yearly service 2s. About 

 1250 Joice de Tockholes released his tenement here 

 to Elias de Pleasington, his lord, and early in the 

 reign of Edward I, or possibly earlier, William de 

 Livesey as mesne tenant granted the feudal rights and 

 services due from Geoffrey de Sutton, who held 

 TOCKHOLES, presumably in demesne, to Robert 

 de Pleasington.^ 



In 1 3 14— 15 Robert son of John de Pleasington 

 and Mabel his mother conveyed their lands here to 

 William de Holand, kt.,* and in 1332 the same 

 Robert granted the manor of Tockholes within the 

 town of Livesey to Robert or Roger de Radcliffe in 

 fee.= 



Adam de Tockholes held the other moiety in 

 1246, in which year he and his brothers Geoffrey 

 and Elias, or ' Ekke,' were each amerced 2 marks at 

 Lancaster assizes for receiving those who had burned 

 Staining Grange.* His successor, another Adam 

 living in 1277, withdrew a plea in 1292, touching a 

 tenement here, against Henry son of Henry de 

 Whalley. In 1296 another Adam succeeded and 

 soon after joined with John de Pleasington in 

 granting land here called Hulkar to John de Tonge, 

 and in 1 3 1 1 they were jointly returned as holding 



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Tockholes in thegnage for zs. rent and doing suit at 

 the three weeks court of Clitheroe/ 



Within the period of Thomas of Lancaster's tenure 

 of the honor the interest of the Tockholes family 

 passed to Roger de Radcliffe, a younger brother of 

 Richard de Radcliffe of Radcliffe, who paid a fine for 

 respite of his suit for Tockholes at the court held at 

 Clitheroe 5 December 1323,* and a few years later 

 acquired, as already related, the Pleasington moiety 

 of the manor. After his death the manor passed to 

 his nephew Robert, bastard son of Richard de 

 Radcliffe, in accordance with the terms of a settle- 

 ment, but as Robert had no issue by his wife Cecily 

 it passed in remainder at his death in 1345 to his 

 younger brother John de Radcliffe of Ordsall, kt.^ 

 After the death of Duke Henry the Crown seized the 

 estates which John de Radcliffe had inherited from 

 Robert his brother, probably on account of the debts 

 due to the Crown which the latter had left unpaid as 

 under-sheriff at his death. In 1362 Richard son 

 and heir of John de Radcliffe petitioned the Crown 

 and obtained restitution of lands in Livesey and 

 Tockholes.^" Richard was drowned in Rossendale in 

 1380, and ten weeks later John his son had livery of 

 his estates, including ' Le Holynhed in Tokholes ' 

 which his father had held in chief by the yearly rent 



of 2J.11 



The subsequent descent of the manor follows that 

 described in the account of OrdsalH^ until 1641, 

 when Alexander Radcliffe, K.B., passed by fine to 

 William Davenport and Thomas Gerard the manor 

 of Tockholes, fifteen messuages, 3 water-mill, a dove- 

 cote and lands in Tockholes, Hollinshead and 

 Livesey, probably for sale.^^ In the inquest of survey 

 of the honor of Clitheroe made in 1662 Edward 

 Warren was returned as paying zs. yearly to the 

 bailiff for 'the Hollinhead.' 1* In 1761 George 

 Warren of Poynton, co. Chester, kt., passed this and 

 other manors in this county to trustees, by whom 

 Tockholes was sold to John Hollinshead, from whom 

 it descended to his cousin William Brock, who 

 assumed the additional name of Hollinshead '^ on 

 succeeding to his cousin's estates. Mr. Brock- 

 HoUinshead died without issue in 1803, having 

 bequeathed this estate to his nephew Mr. Lawrence 



* The agricultural returns for 1905 

 give permanent grass 1,616 acres, woods 

 and plantations 52 acres. 



^ The new survey gives the area as 

 1,991 acres, of which 29 are inland 

 water. The population has decreased 

 more than half since the days of the hand- 

 loom. 



1 Dods. MSS. cxlijc, fol. io84 ; Towne- 

 ley MS. HH, no. 3350. Geoffrey de 

 Sutton rendered zs. yearly, of which 

 sum i.zd, was to be paid to Adam de 

 Tockholes and his heirs for the fee of 

 Tockholes and \zd. to Robert de Pleasing- 

 ton, 



* Geoffrey son of William de Livesey 

 conveyed to John son of Robert de 

 Pleasington between 1300 and 131 5 the 

 homage and service of zs. of John del 

 Shaw and Robert his son for lands here ; 

 ibid. no. 34.13, 3466-9. 



* Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. \o%h. The 

 Christian name is omitted in the MS. 



® Lanes. Assize R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 91-4. 



' De Lacy Comp. (Chet. Soc), 14. 

 John de Tong gave Hulkar to Geoffrey 



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de Cuerdale ; it was described as lying 

 beside Erncsdene Brook and bounded by 

 Ryhil ditch ; right of way was given to 

 the common pasture of Cartelache ; 

 Norris D. (B.M.), 941-3 ; Lanes. Inq. 

 and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 ii, II. 



8 Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 49. 



9 Memo. R. (L.T.R.), 127, m. 8. 

 Cecily relict of Robert de Radcliffe had 

 issue, probably by a former husband, 

 Katherine, who married Nicholas de 

 Ilkeston, and before her marriage gave 

 her lands and tenements in Tockholes 

 to John son of Richard de Radcliffe to 

 hold during the life of Cecily her 

 mother for 401. rent. In 1353 the rent 

 was in arrears for three and a-half years, 

 apparently by the tacit consent of 

 Katherine ; Assize R. 435, m. 17. 



10 Memo. R. (L.T.R.), 127, m. 8. 



i^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 8. 

 The demesne of Hollinshead only com- 

 prised 6 acres of arable worth yearly 6d. 

 each, 20 acres of meadow worth /\.d, 

 each and 60 acres of pasture worth the 



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same. The existing hall of Hollinshead 

 stands 900 ft. above the ordnance 

 datum. 



John Radcliffe paid zs. rent to the 

 wapentake for Tockholes in 143 1, and 

 Alexander Radcliffe gave puture to the 

 sheriff for Tockholes e. 1460 ; Kuerden 

 MSS. Coll. of Arms, ^, 107 ; MS. at 

 Huntroyde. 



12 In 1 6 1 3 Lady Anne Radcliffe, widow, 

 and Sir John Radcliffe, kt., as sole lords 

 of the manor, claimed the wastes of 

 Tockholes against Edward Osbaldeston, 

 Lawrence Ainsworth and others, char- 

 terers there. It was ordered that the 

 plaintiffs should retain possession of the 

 wastes and improvements, while the de- 

 fendants should enjoy pasturage, turbary, 

 stone and marl as heretofore ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Entry Bks. of Decrees and Orders, 

 XXV, fol. 748. 



1^ Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdlc. 139, 

 Qo. 38, 



1^ MS. penes W. Farrer, 123, 



15 Mr. W. Broek-HoUinshead suffered 

 a recovery of the manor in Lent, 1803 ; 

 Recov. R. 43 Geo. Ill, m. 9. 



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