BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



Lawrence Lord, John Tattersall alias True, Edmund 

 Tattersall the elder ; 1662 — John Whitaker and 

 James his brother, Christopher Nuttall, George 

 Holt, James Lord and John Tattersall, Richard 

 Heap and many others. 



John Tattersall and John Pilling of Tunstead, 

 John Lord of Bacup and James Whitaker of 

 Broadclough were free tenants in 1 6z I '' 



John Kershaw of Wolfenden Booth, who died in 

 1701, was a benefactor of the township." 



The site of the chapel was 

 BOROUGHS probably the most central for the 

 population at the time of its founda- 

 tion, but the later rise of manufactures caused the 

 Irwell valley to become the 

 most populous part of the 

 district, and here the borough 

 oi BACUP has been formed. 

 A local board district was 

 defined in 1861"; two years 

 later the area was divided 

 into wards and the local board 

 was constituted." The dis- 

 trict was extended in 1876," 

 and in August 1882 the 

 borough was incorporated, 

 being governed by a mayor, 

 six aldermen and eighteen 

 councillors ; there are six 

 wards." In 1894 the com- 

 posite area was formed into a 

 single township." A police 

 force was organized in 1887. 

 Gas is supplied by a private 



company," but the water supply is owned by the 

 corporation'" ; the Haslingden, Rawtenstall and 

 Bacup Outfall Sewerage Board regulates the disposal 

 of the sewage. The cemetery, opened in 1862," is 

 regulated by a burial board consisting of members of 

 the council. There are recreation grounds and 

 public baths and fire engine station. The town 

 hall, built in 1857, is now the police oflice and court- 

 house, and the Mechanics' Institute has been con- 

 verted into municipal offices." A coat of arms was 

 granted in 1883. A market is held on Wednesday 

 and on Saturday ; a market-house was opened in 

 1867." A school board was formed in 1883." 



Borough of Bacup. 

 Assure on afesse between 

 fwo cotton-bales in chief 

 or and a block of stone 

 ivith leivis attached in 

 base proper a fleece sable 

 befween tiuo bees volant 

 of the thirdy in centre 

 chief point a squirrel 

 sejant gold. 



The remaining part of the old township of 

 Newchurch has been included in the borough of 

 Rawtenstall,'" so that as a township it no longer 

 exists. Some minor changes had taken place in 

 boundaries under the Divided Parishes Act of 1882, 

 detached parts of Newchurch and Lower Booths 

 being absorbed within the areas in which they 

 actually lay. 



The Rossendale parliamentary division of the 

 county, including Accrington, Haslingden, Rawten- 

 stall and Bacup, has the last-named town as the place 

 of election. 



The chapel of ALL SAINTS'" in 

 CHURCH Rossendale was the first to be built in 

 the district after its being disforested. It 

 was erected by the inhabitants in or before I 5 1 1 on 

 the slope of a hill called Seatnaze," and gave the name 

 of Newchurch to the place.'" Of this chapel, as of 

 some others, is told a story of the nightly removal of 

 the materials from the position first chosen to that 

 on which it was built.'' Lettice Jackson, widow, in 

 October I 5 1 1 surrendered land in the neighbourhood 

 for the use of an honest priest to celebrate divine ser- 

 vice in the chapel," but this was not to come into 

 effect till after the death of herself and her second 

 husband Richard Whitworth." The chapel was actually 

 in use in I 515," but is not mentioned in the chantry 

 records. It was probably in danger from the spolia- 

 tion of the time, for in 1550 the inhabitants sent a 

 petition to the Crown setting forth the reasons for 

 building and maintaining it, and desiring also that it 

 might be made parochial and used for ' divine service 

 and every thing and things which now be or here- 

 after shall be set forth by the king's highness . . . 

 for the service of God and his highness,' and for 

 ' Christendom, matrimony, burial, and all other sacra- 

 ments and ordinances of holiness,' or other uses, as 

 ordered by the Crown." The petition is supposed to 

 have been granted, and the chapel received the new 

 name of ' Our Saviour's.' " It is said to have been 

 rebuilt in 1561," and after enlargement in 1753 was 

 rebuilt in 1825.*^ 



There was no endowment. An attempt in 1607 

 to recover the lands of Lettice Jackson resulted in an 

 order to surrender them to John Nuttall, who was to 

 pay 20 marks a year to the then minister for life ; 

 afterwards £zo was to be given." In 1650 it was 



'^ iicv/higging. Forest tf Rossendale, 321. 

 Soon afterwards there was a settlement of 

 copyhold lands in Bacup between Tatter- 

 sall and Whitaker ; Lanes, and Ches. Rec. 

 (Rec Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 249. 



2» Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 342. 



2* Newbigging, op. cit. 300 ; the 

 bounds arc recited in full. 



« l\sU.;Lond. Gaz. 2 Oct. 1863. There 

 were five wards named Bacup, Acre Mill, 

 Broadclough, Greave and RockclifFe. 



^^ Act 39 & 40 Vict. cap. 13. The 

 area of Bacup is given as 6,I20 acres, 

 including 27 of inland water. 



^ They are called Irwell, Greens, Tun- 

 stead, Broadclough, Tong and Brandwood. 



** Partly from Newchurch and partly 

 from Spotland, in different parishes and 

 hundreds ; Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 32291. 



'9 Established in i Si 3 6. The local com- 

 pany was in 1854 replaced by the Rossen- 

 dale Union Gas Co. to supply the whole 

 district; 17 & 18 Vict. cap. lK The 

 works are at Clough Fold. 



^ A private company (the Rossendale 

 Water Co.) was formed in 1853 by 16 & 

 17 Vict. cap. 59. The undertaking was 

 sold to the Corporation in 1894 ; 57 & 58 

 Vict. cap. 65. 



^^ Ncwbigging, op. cit. 320. 



82 Information of Mr. Entwistle, town 

 clerk. The Corporation are giving ^^60 

 a year in university scholarships to con- 

 tinue the work of the old Mechanics* 

 Institute. " Newbigging, op. cit. 319. 



"^ Lond. Case. 3 1 July 1883. 



"» Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 32291. 



'* Whitaker, JVhalley, i, 1 1 6. It is now 

 called St. Nicholas's. 



" Or Seatonheys ; ibid. 3 1 8. 



88 The story is given in the petition of 

 1550 printed by Newbigging, op. cit. 

 1 1 3— 1 6. St. Michael's in Clitheroe Castle, 

 the nominal mother church, was 12 miles 

 away over a * very foul, painful and hiUous ' 

 road, extremely cold in the winter. 



89 Ibid. 119. After the second time 

 watchers were placed, but an old woman 

 going by gave them some refreshment, 



439 



after which they slept so soundly that they 

 heard nothing, though the materials were 

 removed as before. The rejected site is 

 said to have been at Mitchellfield Nook, a 

 mile to the east. 



^^ End, Char. Rep. 1901. The lands 

 were at Deadwenclough, Wolfenden, Hen- 

 heads and FriarhiU. 



^1 Act Bk. of IVhalley (Chet. Soc), 4.5. 

 It had not been consecrated two years 

 later, and a marriage celebrated there was 

 declared invalid; ibid. 52. Repairs were 

 necessary in 1527 and later; ibid. 114, 

 1 1". 



^2 Newbigging, op. cit. The husband 

 is said to have been living in 1548. 



'*^ Ibid. 3 27. The Bishop of Chester wai 

 to have the nomination of the curates. 



■*'• Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 341. Whitaker also records this dedi- 

 cation. According to Baines Holy Trinity 

 was the customary dedication. 



^5 Whitaker, loc. cit. 



46 Newbigging, op. cit. 117— 19. 



" End. Char. Rep. 



