A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



a rent of i id. to the lord of Clithcroe for his lands 

 called Lostock, and in 1666 William Dandy paid tax 

 upon three hearths here.** He died in 1676 

 described as of Lostock. Andrew Dandy of Lostock 

 and William his son were out-burgesses at Preston 

 gild in 1682. 



The PEDDER HOUSE esUte was the property 

 of a family of the same name, of whom William 

 Pedder held his tenement of Richard Langton in 

 1502 under a free rent of p. In 1662 John 

 Jackson paid a rent of i zd. to the lord of Clitheroe 

 for Pedder House, and in 1666 was taxed for four 

 hearths.**^ 



RIDING HOUSE was the home of the family 

 of that name. John son of John del Ridding occurs 

 temp. Edward I, John del Riding in 1332 and John 

 son of Richard del Ridding in 1363. John Riding, 

 the elder and younger, and William Ryding conveyed 

 four tenements here to James Mason a/iai Stopford 

 and William Stopford in 1582. William Stopford 

 of Ulnes Walton died in 161 7 seised of a tene- 

 ment in Walton, held of Robert Banaster of Passen- 

 ham, CO. Northants, kt., as feoffee of Gilbert Hoghton, 

 kt. William Stopford his son was aged twenty-three 

 years. In 1622 he was an out-burgess at Preston 

 gild with his two sons." In 1662 Nicholas Norris 

 paid 12a'. rent to the lord of Clitheroe for Riding 

 House. 



LEMON HOUSE was the seat of an ancient family 

 who were probably hereditary judges or law men of 

 the court baron of Walton. Thurstan Banastre gave 

 land here in the time of John or early Henry III to 

 Kandelan son of Robert, and it afterwards passed to 

 Adam son of the Laghmon who occurs in 1246." 

 Others of the line are Henry (l 278 and 1292), Henry 

 son of Henry Laghmon or Laweman (1332), Robert 

 son of Henry (1347), Robert and Ralph sons of 

 Richard son of Robert (1415-23). Robert Lemon 

 had Ralph, and in 1 504 John Lemon and Robert 

 his brother occur. James Lemon of Walton, brother 

 of Edmund of Preston, was father of William, an 

 alderman at Preston gild in 1622 ; Henry his son 

 was an in-burgess in 1642, and William son of Henry 

 a councillor of the gild in 1662 and alderman in 

 1682. As William Lemon, gent.," he sold the 

 Lemon House estate in 1663 to John Woodcock the 

 elder, descended from the family of Woodcock of 

 Cuerden Green. His grandson John Woodcock 

 alienated the estate before 1742." 



Other estates that may be named were Stone 

 House, owned in 1662 by Thomas Shawe, Knowles 

 (probably Knowsley) House by Henry Catterall and 

 Kellet House by Daniel Chaddock.*' The Chorley, 

 Hesketh, Cuerdale (later Osbaldeston) and Garston 

 families held lands herefrom the 14th to the 1 6-1 7th 



centuries. In the 13th and 14th centuries lands in 

 Balshagh were held by a family bearing that name. 

 Woodley was in the possession of John de Blackburn 

 of Woodley temp. Edward I. It descended through 

 several generations of the family, and was granted by 

 William de Blackburn of Mawdesley in 1 ^71 to John 

 de Blackburn of Garston." Probably both these 

 estates passed into the possession of the chief lord 

 during the 14th or 15th century. The Colevill 

 family were tenants of the Banastres from an early 

 period. William son of Avice de Colevill occurs in 

 1 246, John temp. Edw.ird I, William contributed to 

 the subsidy of 1332, whilst another William was the 

 father of John, living until about 1428, whose 

 daughter and co-heir Margaret married first Richard 

 Maunsell before 1387 and subsequently Thomas de 

 Estham, from whom descended Arthur son and heir 

 of Richard Estham, who sold lands called Brodfeld 

 and Schetylyngfeld to Thomas Langton, kt., in 1536, 

 and six years later alienated his whole estate in Walton 

 to Sir Thomas." In 1666 Francis Eastham and 

 Henry Serjeant paid tax for five hearths on behalf of 

 ' Mr. Lees,' probably Richard Legh of Lyme." 



The Maynes were long the property of the Faring- 

 tons of Worden. The Chorleys of Chorley were the 

 owners of two messuages known as 'Claughton's ' and 

 as 'Serjeant's ' in the 1 6th and 17th centuries, which 

 long descended with their other estates." 



The church of ST. LEONARD stands 

 CHURCH in a picturesque situation on the crest of 

 a tongue of high land between the Ribble 

 and Darwen, three-quarters of a mile to the east of 

 their junction. The road to Samlesbury passes close 

 to the building on the north side, from which there 

 is a fine prospect over the Ribble valley, and on the 

 south the ground falls less precipitously to the village 

 of Walton on the old high road between Preston and 

 Blackburn in the valley of the Darwen. The build- 

 ing consists of a chancel 27 ft. by 1 8 ft., nave 60 ft. 

 by 42 ft., with north and south transepts each 28 ft. 

 by 16 ft., and west tower I 3 ft. 3 in. square, all these 

 measurements being internal. There are also a low 

 vestry on the north side of the tower and shallow 

 north and south porches at the west end of the nave. 

 Only the chancel and tower, however, are ancient, and 

 they belong to an early 16th-century building," the 

 nave of which was pulled down and rebuilt in 1798 

 in a poor Gothic style,"' to which deep transepts were 

 added in 18 16. The building was restored in 1856, 

 but the nave being in a more or less ruinous condition 

 at the beginning of the present century it was pulled 

 down and a new one erected in 1905. Owing to the 

 graves being close on all sides the new structure had 

 to be made almost exactly the same on plan as that 

 which it replaced.* 



»* Clitheroe Surv. ; Lay Subs. Lanes, 

 bdle. 250, no. 9. 



*^a Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, loi ; 

 Clitheroe Surv. ; Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 

 250, no, 9. 



8^ Hoghton D. 554, 850; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 44, m. 91 ; Lana. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rec. See. Lanes, and Ches.], 

 ii, 72; Guiii R. 85. 



6« Kuerden MSS. ii, 250 ; Ai/« R. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 28. 



8' Hoghton and Walton D. ; Plea R. ; 

 Fishwick, Ireiton, 225-34 ; Fisit. (Chet. 

 Soc. Ixxxv), 18+, 



^ Abram, Blackburn, 735. 



® These all paid rents to Clitheroe in 

 1662 ; Surv. 



*> Hoghton D. ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 180. 



Osbaldeston stands near the road lead- 

 ing from Walton Church to Moon's MilL 

 It was rebuilt in 1661 by William and 

 Dorothy Osbaldeston, as recorded by 

 their initials and the date on a stone over 

 the porch. '' Hoghton D. 



" Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



^ Faringan P. (Chet. See.), 106. 

 John son of Robert de Langton, kt., gave 

 these tenements in 1363 to William de 

 Chorley and Ralph his son for a ron 



296 



yearly. Members of the Serjeant family 

 held them from 1507 until well into the 

 1 8th century ; Churley Surv. (Rec Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 29-32. 



*< The chapel was rebuilt temp. 

 Henry VIII ; Ahram, Hijt. of Bloikhum. 



'* Glynne, Churcha of Lanes, ii. 

 The 18th-century church was remarkable 

 for its two lofty pulpits, one on each 

 side of the chancel arch, each with a 

 conspicuous iron staircase. 



« Tht Builder, 2+ Feb. 1906. The 

 architect was the late Mr. John P. 

 Seddon, this being the last »ork carried 

 out by him. 



