A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



the third part in 1662, when the remainder was 

 held by Richard Cromhock, John Moore and Bernard 

 Parier (in right of his «ife), each F-\^'"g -9'- ~\'^- 

 of copyhold rent." The hearth tax return of 1 666 

 shows the following asses ments : Mr. Anthony Wade 

 nine hearth;, Ellis Nutter six and Bernard Parker 

 (for Henry N'utter) four.*" 



In the witches' trials in 161 2 it was alleged that 

 Robert Nutter of Greenhead and his father Chris- 

 topher had been bewitched to death some eighteen 

 or nineteen years before.*' Eleanor d.iughter of 

 Ellis Nutter of Waterside was the grandmother of 

 Archbishop Tillotson." 



Montford was towards the end of the iSth century 

 the residence of one Thomas Tipping, who devised 

 it to his gardener. The estate, including New Laund 

 Farm and W.itenide, was purchased by the late 

 Robert Tunstill, and is now the property of his 

 nephew, Mr. Harry Tunstill of Reedyford House, 

 Nelson. 



Edmund Robinson of Nc ^ Laund in 164^ was 

 allowed to compound for his 'delinquency' by a fine 

 of £40. He had been in Clitheroe C.istle while it 

 Has held for the kin^, but in 1645 had voluntarily 

 submitted to the Parliament and taken the National 

 Covenant." 



Complaint was made in 1592 th.t jnhn Nutter 

 of New Laund had stopped a right of way u=cd from 

 time immemorial bctuccn Mariden and Briercliffe 

 on the one side and Clitheroe, Preston, Coine and 

 Padiham nn the other. The road, used by carts as 

 well as by horsemen and foot pas-engers, led through 

 lands of Sir Gilbert Gerard in Marsden to a place 

 called the Chamber in Pendle or Hansoncliff'e, thence 

 hy 'a certain place in the s.iid Ne\v Laund called 

 the Helforth Gate, and so ascending to a bank called 

 the Rustic Bank, and thence to a gate called the New 

 Laund Gate,' and so to the lower side of the Fence 

 and tn Clitheroe. John Nutter replied that his 

 gr.indfather Ellis made a partition of the lands in 

 the township with Henry and Christopher Nutter, 

 and it was then .lereed that 'a highway should be 

 set out in the portion of the said Christopher on the 

 nest side of the said close called the New Laund, 

 leading from a place called the S.indesforth to another 

 place called the Fence,' which road was still open.^' 



PADIHAM 



Padiham, 1241 ; Padingham, 1296 (unusual). 

 This township has an area of 1,953 acres' well 



situated on the southern slope ot'' a ridge which 

 attains over Soo ft. above sea level. The Calder and 

 a tributary called the Lodge from the south-east 

 form the southern boundary, and upon it stands the 

 older part of the town of Padiham, which has now- 

 extended beyond the river into Hapton. In 1901 

 there was a population of 12,205 in Padiham (in- 

 cluding 1,838 from Hapton) and 133 in North 

 Town ; so that the old township of Padiham had 

 10,500 inhabitants. High Whitaker lies 1^ miles 

 north-east of the town. 



The roads from Whalley and from Blackburn join 

 at the western edge of the town, and then as Church 

 Street and Burnlev Road pass eastward through it to 

 form the principal street. The old church stands 

 near the centre of it ; and from that point another 

 road goes north by Slade over the hill to Sabden and 

 Clitheroe. A street leads south over the Calder to 

 the railway station, which is in Hapton, and the 

 Burnley Road itself crosses the river at the south- 

 east part of the town ; and it has a branch into 

 Hapton across the Lodge. The railway named is 

 the Great Harwood loop of the Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire Company's line from Blackburn to Burnley 

 via Accrington. 



With the progress of manufactures the population 

 increased, and changes in local government became 

 neecssary. A local board was formed in 1S73 from 

 part of the townships of Padiham and H.ipton,' and 

 powers to supply water and gas were granted to it by 

 Acts of 1874^ and 1S76.' In 1894 the local board 

 district was made a separate township or civil parish, 

 the remainder of Padiham, the rural part, becoming 

 a new township called North Town,' part of whieh 

 was added to Padiham in 1896.' Padiham, i.e. the 

 new township, is governed by an urban district 

 council of fifteen members, chosen equally from five 

 wards named Bank House, Clay Bank, Partridge 

 Hill, Stockbridge and Green. There is a technical 

 and art school erected in i 900. The public cemetery 

 in Padiham Green was laid out in 1852. A fiir for 

 pedlary is held by custom on the second Thursday in 

 August.' 



The cotton manufacture is the great industry of 

 the town ; it was noteworthy in 1825,' and there 

 are now a great number of mills. There are also 

 foundries and other industries, including quarrying 

 and coal-mining. A mine of sea coal at Padiham 

 and Broadhead is recorded in a compotus of 

 1434.' The soil is a heavy cl.ay, overlying shale; 

 the agricultural land in Padiham itself and the 



*^ Honor of Clitheroe MS. 



^ Lay Subs. Lanes, bdle. 2^0, no. 9, 



" P'.'rt' £)i.t<r;'!Yrv(Chct. Sdc), notes 21. 



" Birch, L ri cf THhison. 



" Cfl/. Ccm.'fr C:"./.. iii, 1835. 

 Edmund's father, John Robinson, was 

 still living. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. clvii, 

 G ;. .\ similar claim had been made by 

 the Robinsons of Old Laund in 1575, 

 and a road was allowed them over the 

 Nutters' land, 'to wit, through the Old 

 yate in the New Laund head, thence 

 following the hedge of Christopher Nutter 

 to a plot now being causeyed, then to the 

 corner of the hedge of the white marled 

 and so following that hedge to the Rustic 

 Bank, and so following the hedge to the 

 c-trner eastward, and thence down the 

 cartway to a stake set by us the com- 



missioners, thence down after the hedge 

 on the cast side of Hclfourth Holme to 

 the water, over that to Hclfourth yate 

 into the lands of Gilbert Gerard, esq. ' ; 

 all the ways to be 2+ ft. wide, over and 

 above the hedges and ditches ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Draft Decrees and Orders, 

 17 Eliz. 



' The changes described in the text 

 give the present township of Padiham 

 (including part of Hapton) 970 acres, 

 including 14 of inland water ; while 

 North Town has 1,139 acres, including 

 16 of inland water. In 1904 part of 

 North Town was taken into the new 

 township of Sabden. 



^L:,i./. Ga-. 25 Nov. 1873. 



= 37 & 38 Viet. cap. 78. 



* 39 & 40 \'ict. cap. 2^. Gas works 

 were established in 1846 by a companv. 



492 



=• Local Govt. Bd. Order 3161-. 



^ Ibid. ;s3o8. Part of Padiham was 

 added to North Town. 



' A fair was held in the 17th century, 

 but appears to have been forbidden Jn 

 1641 J Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. See. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), li, 247, 250. 



^ The place is not named in Aikin's 

 Country round Manch. 1795. 



9 Compotus R. of Mich. 18 Hen. VI- 

 19 Hen. VI, reciting a demi'ie of the 

 mine to James Banaatre for ten yean. 

 See also Whitaker, li'hallty, i, 361. 



Henry Marshall, vicar of Wilmington, 

 in 1550 bequeathed his lease of a coal 

 mine in Padiham to Elizabeth Marshall, 

 widow. Richard Marshall her ion is 

 named. To the poor of Padiham i V- 4 '• 

 was giren ; Pa!. \o.'e Bk. iii, 212 ; Greg- 

 son, Fragment} (ed. Harland), 23, 



