BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



BLACKBURN 



successor Robert, possibly his nephew and son of 

 Henry CunlifFe, was described as of Dinckley in 1+72 

 and 1477. He died in 1487, when Elizabeth his 

 widow had dower assigned to her. His son Gilbert 

 was then under age and married to Isabel possibly 

 daughter of John Tildesley of Garrett, gent.'' Gilbert 

 CunlifFe sold the manor to John Talbot son of John 

 Talbot of Salesbury, kt., in 1505.'^ Six years later 

 it was settled by John Talbot's trustees upon his wife 

 Isabella for life.'^ In 1653 Dinckley Hall was pur- 

 chased from the Treason trustees after forfeiture by 

 John Talbot, for joining the king at Worcester 

 in 1651.1* Subsequently the manor descended like 

 that of Salesbury. 



DINCKLSr HALL stands in a low and sheltered 

 situation close to the south bank of the Ribble, and is 

 a two-story farm-house much rebuilt and modernized, 

 but originally apparently of the usual type of 

 central haU and end projecting wings. The north 

 wing, however, if one ever existed, has disappeared, 

 and the middle part of the building, together with 

 the west gable of the 

 south wing, has been re- 

 built in brick. The east 

 gable, however, preserves 

 its ancient timber crook 

 construction, though the 

 barge-board and windows 

 are new, and the south 

 wall, which is built of 

 rough stones with large 

 squared angle quoins, has 

 two good projecting stone 

 chimneys, one carried on 

 corbels. Only one of the 

 four muUioned and tran- 

 somed windows on this 

 side, however, is old, and 

 all the walls are white- 

 washed and the roofs 

 covered with blue slates. 

 On the east side is part 

 of an inclosing garden 



wall with a stone pier 



and ball at the angle. 



The house, however, 



except for its picturesque 



timber gable, is of little architectural interest and 



has been spoiled externally by repairs and whitewash. 



A small estate was held by Richard Harrington, 

 kt., in 1430, and descended in 1498 to Thomas 

 Assheton, kt., in right of his wife Agnes, daughter 

 and co-heir of James Harrington of Wolfage, kt. 

 This may have been the estate afterwards held by 

 the Heskeths of Rufford and conveyed by Thomas 

 Hesketh in 1555 to John Talbot, esq.'^ 



A tenement called the Ridding, held by the free 

 rent of -jd., was settled in 1353 by John son of 

 William de Mykelridding of Dinckley on William his 



brother. In 1422 Joan Radcliffe, lady of Salesbury, 

 granted it to Richard son of William of Ridding, 

 who vested it in trustees in 1439.'" 



George Gabbet of Dinckley, yeoman, was fined in 

 1446 for participation in the Talbot and Hoghton 

 disputes. His descendant John Gabbet made his 

 will in 1632 bequeathing his estate to his son William,''' 

 who held it in 1662 under a free rent of %d. Other 

 freeholders at this time in Dinckley and Wilpshire 

 were Richard Craven of Craven Fold, Robert Shawe, 

 James Astley, Richard Almond, Richard Shireburne 

 and seven others together paying 4/. %\d}^ Robert 

 Craven compounded for his estate in 1653, having 

 probably been at Worcester in 1 65 I, in which year 

 Dorothy wife of John Talbot of Dinckley petitioned 

 for the fifth part of her husband's estate sequestered 

 for his delinquency.'^ 



In the hearth tax return of 1666 there were thirty 

 hearths recorded ; the only large house was that of 

 John Talbot with eight, no other having more than 

 two.20 



Dinckley Hall 



About 1 6 10 a report on the clergy stated that at 

 Dinckley there was a ' chapel but no reader,' ^' but 

 nothing otherwise is known of it. 



GREAT HARWOOD 



Harewude, xii-xiii cent. ; Harewode Magna, xiii- 

 XV cent. 



The township lies on a ridge which is severed from 

 Billington Moor by Dean Brook, and has elevations 

 of 772 ft. above the ordnance datum on Harwood 

 Ridge and 650 ft. on Bowley Hill. From the latter 



•1 Towneley MS. GG, no. 591. 



12 Land. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 93, 

 103 ■> Towneley MS. DD,no. 2136, 2141. 

 In 1506 he conveyed to Talbot the free 

 rent of John Braddyll of id. for the 

 Goldcroft in Dinckley (DD, no. 2 loi), and 

 to John Nowell of Read two messuages ; 

 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 iii, 158. Hewas described as ofKirkby- 

 upon-Green, co. Line, in 1508, when 



he gave a release to John Talbot, esq., 

 from a covenant to provide him with 

 victuals for term of his life (Towneley 

 MS. DD, no. 1259). 



13 Add. MS. 32104, no. 502. 



n Cal. Com. for Comf. ii, 1449. 



1^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 16 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 16, m. 167. 



115 Kuerden fol. MS. (Chet. Lib.), fol. 

 358-60. 



337 



" Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 9, m. 8 ; Add. 

 MS. 32104, no. 963. 



1^ Clitheroe rental /iffnej W. Farrer. 



1^ Cal. Com. for Comp. 3131, 3281. 



Mr. Abram gives accounts of several 

 local families in the 1 6th and 17th 

 centuries in the Hut. of Blackburn^ 749- 



54- 



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

 21 Hht. MSS. Com. Rep. x\v, App. iv, 8. 



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