BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



wns returned as a freeholder/ Another estate was 

 known as Pendle Hall ; it passed by marriage from 

 the Hancock family ' to the Andertons of Euxton.'" 

 It is now part of the Huntroyde estate. Fence is 

 partly in this township and partly in Old Laund." 

 White Lee was formerly owned by a family named 

 Moore." Sir Jonas Moore, distinguished as an 

 engineer and mathematician, was born there in 1618. 

 He died in 1679, having taken part in the draining 

 of the Fens in 165 1 and served as Surveyor of 

 Ordnance to Charles II." The land in the township 

 is now in the hands of a large number of holders. 



For the Church of England a chapel of ease to 

 Padiham was erected in 1874 ; it is called St. John 

 the Evangelist's. 



The Wesleyan Methodists '■* have a chapel, erected 

 in 1 8 12 and enlarged later. It was replaced by the 

 present chapel in 1872. 



' Hachiller or Ashlar House, an ancient dwelling 

 with the date 1594 over the door . . is traditionally 

 said to have been originally erected as a Catholic 

 chapel and a dwelling-house for the officiating 

 priest.' " The old name was the New House within 

 the Forest of Pendle, or else the Fence.'" This was 

 purchased by Mr. Starkie of Huntroyde in 1857." 



HEYHOUSES 



Heyhouses is a small extra-parochial place of 322 



acres, including 6 acres of inland water, lying in the 

 valley between Pendle Hill and the ridge at the north 

 of Padiham. Through this valley flows Sabden Brook 

 west and south-west to the Calder, and it is aug- 

 mented by other brooks descending from Pendle. 

 The town of Sabden ' is partly in this township, but 

 chiefly within the adjacent Pendleton and Read. The 

 population in 1901 was 23. The road from Clitheroe 

 to Padiham passes through Sabden. The old pack- 

 horse road from Clitheroe went over Read Height to 

 the bridge at Altham, thence south over Hameldon." 



Pendle cross stood on the top of the hill above 

 Wellsprings Inn. 



A cotton factory was established at Sabden about 

 1790, the purity of the water attracting the calico- 

 printer. In I 808 Miller, Burys & Co. had extensive 

 works, nearly 2,000 persons being employed in print- 

 ing calicoes by block work and hand-pencilling ; the 

 works were considered the most efficient in the 

 county.' In 1830 they were sold by the Forts to 

 Richard Cobden, and in his hands, in association with 

 the late Mr. George Foster, attained great prosperity. 

 The trade still continues. 



A new township called Sabden was in 1904 formed 

 from Heyhouses, which has ceased to be a township, 

 and parts of Pendleton, Higham, Wiswell, Read, 

 Northtown (in Padiham) and Goldshaw Booth. It 

 contains the whole of the valley from Dean Farm to 

 Green Bank. It is governed by a parish council. 



Twenty years later the only change was 

 that Thomas had been succeeded by John 

 Cronkshaw the younger ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Rentals, bdle. 5, no. 12. 



Lawrence Cronkshaw by his guardian 

 complained in 154.6 that Thomas Ryley 

 and others were detaining title deeds, and 

 in 1548 was himself the plaintiff; Ducalus 

 Lane, i, 179, 223. About the same 

 time John and Robert Cronkshaw were 

 plaintiffs respecting a tenement in West 

 Close, Higham Parrock and Old Parrock j 

 ibid. 264. John Cronkshaw and Ellen 

 Rishton claimed lands in West Close, 

 Hunterholme, Fence and other places 

 under a marriage settlement ; ibid, iii, 



John Croke in 1545 and his son 

 Richard in 1554 claimed a messuage 

 called West Close against Hugh Halstead 

 and others ; ibid, i, 194 ; ii, 180. 



The jurors in the Whalley courts give 

 the names of the principal inhabitants 

 of Over and Nether Higham and West 

 Close from 1513 to 1537; Act Bk. of 

 WhalUy (Chet. Soc), 15, &c. They 

 include Hargreaves at Over Higham, 

 Boothman at Lower Higham and 

 Hanson at Hunterholme. 



* Mhc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 236. It was probably the same 

 Leonard who claimed lands in West 

 Close and Hunterholme in 1563 ; Ducatui 

 Lane. Ii, 260. 



Hunterholme was held by Richard 

 Shuttleworth in 1609 (and 1662) ; 

 Grimshaw MS. ; ' Honor of Clitheroe ' 

 MS. 244. 



^ The Commissioners of 1507 demised 

 the vaccary called Higham Close or 

 Nether Higham, which Richard Hancock 

 had held for £^ 13 J. 4</. rent, to his 

 widow at £6. She held the same in 

 1527 ; Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 12. 



Nicholas Hancock was living in 1535 ; 

 Whalley Act Bk. 183. In 1564 he was 

 described as 'of Lower Higham, gent.' ; 



Farrer, Clitheroe Ct, R. 458. He and 

 Isabel his wife are named in 1567 j 

 Huntroyde D. See also Duchy Plead. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 80. 



William son of Nicholas Hancock died 

 in 1586 holding messuages, &c., in 

 Downham and South Kirkby (Yorks.). 

 He married Ellen daughter of Simon 

 Haydock at Burnley in 1570, and after 

 his death she lived at Lower Higham. 

 The heir was a daughter Isabel, aged 

 seven ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, 

 no. 57. 



^^ Isabel Hancock the heiress married 

 (1592) Richard Assheton of Downham 

 (d. 1596), by whom she had no issue, and 

 then William Anderton of Euxton 

 (d. 1618), by whom she had a son Hugh ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxvii, 4. 

 She was a convicted recusant, and 

 accordingly under the Commonwealth 

 two-thirds of her estate were sequestered. 

 She died in May 1652. The Pendle 

 Hall estate, lying in Lower Higham and 

 Furtherley, had been granted to trustees 

 in 1649 to raise ;^'5oo for grandchildren. 

 It was copyhold of the manor of Ighten- 

 hill ; Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 67-72, 58. 



The estate was in 1664 sold by Hugh 

 Anderton of Euxton to Piers Starkie of 

 Kempnough, a son of Colonel Starkie of 

 Huntroyde, and on his death in 1689 

 appears to have descended (probably by 

 will) to Piers' great-nephew John Starkie 

 of Huntroyde, who was the owner in 

 1695 ; Huntroyde D. 



'1 Whitaker, op. cit. i, 266, 305. 



In 1507 Higham Booth was demised 

 in moieties to Sir John Booth and to 

 Hugh and Edmund Standen, each half 

 paying ^^5 rent. By 1527 it had been 

 divided among eight persons, surnamed 

 Moore (3), Hargreaves (4), and Hugh 

 Parker, paying ^16 in all. In 1609 the 

 tenants were John Moore of Height (and 

 Dean), Hugh Moore and Henry Parker 

 of White Lee, Richard Grimshaw of 



Fence, Nicholas Hargreaves, and eight 

 others. In 1662 there were twenty-one 

 tenants, the chief being John Moore of 

 Fence, Thomas Croysdale, Lawrence 

 Duxbury and John Moore of White 

 Lee. 



Nicholas and Hugh Moore claimed 

 land in Hollinbacks and Fence against 

 John Hartley and Isabel his wife in 

 1563 J Ducatus Lane, ii, 268, 



The estate of Richard Thornton of 

 Fence was in 1650 sequestered by the 

 Commonwealth authorities for delinquency 

 * on a false suggestion that he assisted the 

 enemy In the late invasion under the 

 Duke of Hamilton.' The estate was 

 afterwards declared forfeit and sold ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. iv, 2667 ; Index of 

 Royalists (Index Soc), 4.4. 



^^ John Moore of Over Higham was a 

 juror in 1514 ; Act Bk. of Whalley^ 22. 

 Hugh Moore the same in 1524 ^ ibid. 90. 

 John Moore of Fence and Hugh Moore 

 of Dean were freeholders in 1600 ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 236. 



^^ There is a long notice in Whitaker, 

 op. cit. ii, 528-35 ; also Diet. Nat. Biog. 



^* Methodism was introduced into 

 Higham as early as 1749 under the 

 influence of William Grimshaw of 

 Haworth, but there are practically no 

 records till 1794, when there was *a 

 small society ' there. 



^^ Mannex, Directory, 1854. The 

 house is in the north-east corner of the 

 township. 



^^ Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 276. It had 

 been owned by Grimshaw, Walmesley of 

 Coldcoats and (1762) Smith. 



^^ Information of Mr, Howsln. 



^ Sapedene, 1296; Sapenden Haye, 

 1387. The bridge is mentioned in 1425 

 and its repair about 1580 j note by Dr. 

 Laycock of Sabden, to whom various 

 other details are due. 



^ Dr. Laycock. 



3 Britton, Beauties of Engh * Lanes.' 

 136-8. 



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