BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



south wall, being removed. At the same time a late 

 15th or e.irly l6th-centur)' octagonal oak pulpit, said 

 to have been in the old church at Holme in the 

 reign of Henry VIII, was removed from the Whitaker 

 pew, where it had long stood, and erected on the 

 north side of the old chancel. It has open sides 

 with Gothic tracery in the heads and an embattled 

 top. In the old Whitaker pew, which is now 

 thrown open to the church, is some linen pattern 

 panelling with carved rails, and there is also some 

 18th-century square panelling on both the north and 

 south sides of the old sanctuary. There are also four 

 of the oak stalls from the old Blackburn Parish 

 Church pulled down in 1820, two of them having 

 carved misericordes. 



The walls are plastered and there are mural 

 monuments to William Whitaker (d. 1782), Laurence 

 Ormerod (d. 1793), the Rev. T. T. Whitaker 

 (d. 1817) and John Hargreaves (d. 1834), ^"'^ 

 there is a bust of the Rev. T. D. Whitaker, the 

 historian of Whalley. 



The cupola contained one bell till 1895, in which 

 year a ring of eleven hemispherical bells by Mears 

 & Stainbank was added. 



Over the arched gateway on the south side of 

 the chapel is a foliated cross-head brought by 

 Dr. Whitaker from Whalley. 



General Sir James York Scarlett, who led the 

 Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, is buried in the 

 churchyard. 



The posts of the stocks still stand near the 

 churchyard gate at the bottom of the hill. 



A district was assigned to the church in 1843.™ 

 Mrs. A. Master- Whitaker is the patron. 



The following have been curates and vicars "' : — 



1742 Anthony Weatherhead, M.A. (Christ's 



Coll., Camb.) 

 1759-63 William Halliwell 

 1797 Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D." (St. 



John's Coll., Camb.) 

 1822 William Tindall, M.A.*' (University Coll., 



Oxf.) 

 1830 Robert Nowell Whitaker, M.A.«^ (St. 



John's Coll., Camb.) 

 1 840 John Langfield 

 i860 Daniel Sutcliffe, M.A. (St. Catharine's 



Coll., Camb.) 

 1 896 Alfred Master- Whitaker, M.A." (Dur.) 



The Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Mere Clough 

 was built in 1824 ; the Independent Methodist one 

 at Walk Mill in 1853 superseded the first building 

 of 1835. The Congregationalists hold services in 

 the schools. 



IGHTENHILL PARK 



Hightenhull, 1238 ; Ightenhill, 1242 ; Hucnhull, 

 1258 ; Ichtenhill, 1 296, 1305. 



Ightenhill Park lies on the south and south-west 

 sides of the River Calder, and has an area of 760 

 acres. It was formerly accounted extra-parochial, as 

 being in the Castle parish of Clitheroe. The hamlet 

 anciently known as Ightenhill lay to the south of the 

 park, within Habergham Eaves, near the present 

 Whittlefield and Gannow. The ground rises from 

 about 270 ft. above sea level at the Calder bank to 

 530 ft. in the centre, where the ancient manor-house 

 of the Lacys stood. Here Edward II spent several 

 days at the beginning of October 1323, being 

 engaged in hearing pleas and dealing with various 

 public matters which had arisen in consequence of 

 the rebellion of Thomas Earl of Lancaster in the year 

 before.' 



The road from Burnley to Padiham skirts the 

 southern border of the township, and at its eastern 

 corner a branch road goes north through it, passing 

 Old Holme and ascending the hill from which the 

 name is derived ; leaving the manor site to the west 

 and then descending it continues as a bridle road to 

 a ford over the Calder leading to Hunterholme in 

 Higham. Cornfield is in the north-west corner by 

 the river. The population in 1901 numbered 888 

 persons, mostly within Burnley. 



There are a colliery and a stone quarry in the 

 park and several disused coal pits, the township 

 abounding in the mineral. The land is chiefly used 

 for pasturage, for there are 744^ acres in permanent 

 grass and 24 acres arable, but no woods or 

 plantations. '° 



A small strip on the south, which had become 

 urban, was included in the county borough of 

 Burnley in 1889, and in 1894 '^'^ became part of 

 the new township of Burnley, so reducing the old 

 area. On the other hand part of Habergham Eaves 

 was added, and after these changes the township was 

 named Ightenhill simply.' This new township has an 

 area of 770 acres, including 6 of inland water, and in 

 1 90 1 a population of 1 1 1. 



The first occurrence of the name 

 MANOR IGHTENHILL appears to be in a charter 

 by John de Lacy to Monk Bretton 

 Priory, dated at this place in 1238.^ Four years 

 later the lands, &c., were extended at the yearly value 

 of ^4 <)s. lid., in which was included the farm of 

 lands held by the tenants of Habergham. There 

 were four free tenants, holding among them 45 

 customary acres.* Ightenhill is named in the grant 

 of free warren to Edmund de Lacy in 1251.' The 

 farm yielded 53^. 412'. in 1296, probably indicating 

 that there were 160 customary acres demised to 

 tenants at will and freeholders. The parker received 

 l^d. a day. There were 60 acres of meadow cut 

 for hay, and 1 6 acres of oats had been reaped, doubt- 

 less in the ' Cornfield.' ' The particulars of the 

 1305 account show no material change.' After the 

 death of Henry de Lacy in 1 3 1 1 it was recorded 

 that the capital messuage in Ightenhill was of no 



^o Land. Gaz. 3 Jan. 1843. 



^^ From the church papers at Chester 

 Dioc. Reg. 



^ See the account of Whalley Church. 



^ Master of Wolverhampton School. 



^ Vicar of Whalley 1840-81. 



85 Rector of Stambourne 1868-89. 



' Ca/. Pat. 1321-4, pp. 338, 343, &c. 



'" Statistics fi-om Bd. of Agric. 

 (1905). 



2 Local Govt. Bd. Order 31666. 



^ Not in 1 176, as wrongly stated by 

 Dr. Whitaker j Whalley, i, 306, 323. 



^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 156, 215. 



* Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, p. 357. 



* De Lacy Compoti (Chet. Soc), 7, 1 5, 

 17-19. Letherwyte, Merchat and Thistle- 

 tack are feudal dues mentioned. In re- 

 pairing the pales 45. Sd. was spent, and 



8j. dd. in diverting the Calder near Whit- 

 acre, for the protection of the pales of the 

 park. In the stud farm were fifty-two 

 mares and two rounceys ; of the former 

 nine died of murrain during the year, but 

 twenty-two foals were born, and twenty- 

 two yearlings and twenty-nine two- 

 year olds remained from the preceding 

 year. 



^ Ibid. 93, 95, 103. 



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