BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



ground falls and rises again, 1,272 ft. being reached 

 at Wheathead Height on the eastern boundary, while 

 on the opposite side Pike Law attains 1,189 ft. and 

 marks the partition between the two booths of Barley 

 and Wheatley and also the boundary of Downham. 

 The population in 1901 was 287. 



The soil is clay, overlying rock, and the agricul- 

 tural land is almost entirely used for pasture, 1,807^ 

 acres of permanent grass and 6 of woods and planta- 

 tions being recorded, but no arable land.'" There 

 was a small cotton mill to the east of Barley Green, 

 but this has ceased working, the Nelson Corporation 

 having acquired the water rights of the Ogden and 

 Black Moss streams. 



A wake used to be held on Midsummer Day."* 



In 1323 the herbage of Whithalgh yielded 2 8.r., 

 that of Barley the same, and Haghebothe or Haw 

 Booth 1 8;.* The tenants were Gilbert de la Legh, 

 Robert de Penhille and John de Dinelay respectively.^ 

 In 1424 Oliver de Stansfield had the vaccary of 

 Whithagh at £^z 1 3/. \d. rent, an increase on the old 

 one of 40/. ; James Banastre had Barley vaccary at 

 jf5 13/. \.d. rent, instead of f^\ \os. ; and John 

 and Robert Manconhelis' had Haghboth vaccary at 

 j^3 6s. %d., instead of the former ^3 rent.** These 

 rents had in some cases to be reduced, for in 1 45 9 

 the following were paid by William Leyland : Barley 

 Booth, j^5 1 3/. \d., formerly Robert Banastre's ; Haw 

 Booth, j^2 8/. ifd. (late ^z \y. \d.) ; and White- 

 hough Booth, gz \\s. %d. (late gz i6s. Sd.).» By 

 1474 the tenants had changed, but not the rents, 

 Hugh Gartside holding Barley Booth and William 

 Nutter Haw Booth and Whitehough Booth.^" In 

 1495 the tenant of all these was Sir Thomas Walton, 

 at the same rents.^^ 



At the disforesting in 1507 Barley Booth and two 

 small parcels adjoining, lately let at £6 os. Sd. in all, 

 were demised by copy of Court Roll for ;£ i o a year 

 to the old tenants and occupiers, their names being 

 John Robinson the elder, Richard Varley, William 

 Varley, Roger Bowland, John Robinson the younger, 

 James Manknowles, Richard Bollard, James Healey 

 and Margaret Bollard, widow.^^ The later rentals, 

 however, show a total of ^8 only from Barley Booth. 

 The two parcels of pasture called Hawbooth and 

 Whitley-in-Hawbooth, lately ^y. ^d. and 51/. 8d. 

 respectively, were demised by copy of Court Roll for 

 j^8 to James Hargreaves, Robert Bulcock, William 

 Holgate, John Robinson the elder, John Robinson 

 the younger, Thomas Varley, Robert Varley, Roger 

 Hartley and John Bulcock.^' Robert Bulcock was 

 the largest holder in 1527,^* Christopher Bulcock in 

 1607^* and Richard and Christopher Bulcock in 

 1662.^* In Barley Booth £1 each was paid by the 

 wife of William Robinson, James Hartley, Robert 

 Squire, Richard Bollard and Miles Crabtree i'' ; and 

 their successors in 1 609 were Richard WoodrofFe, 



gent., James Hartley, Christopher Robinson, James 

 Bollard and John Robinson. There had been 

 numerous changes by 1662, when the chief copy- 

 hold tenants were Edmund Stevenson, William Varley 

 and William Crombock. 



The present house at Whitehough, according to the 

 inscription on it, was built by Christopher Bulcock 

 and Jenet his wife in 1593. 



In 1652 George Fox, coming from Yorkshire, per- 

 haps by way of Clitheroe, tells of the impression the 

 view from the top of Pendle had upon him 1* : — 



As we travelled, we came near a very great high hill called 

 Pendle Hill, and I was moved of the Lord to go up to the top 

 of it ; which I did with much ado, it was so very steep and 

 high. When I was come to the top, I s.iw the sea bordering 

 upon Lancashire. From the top of this hill the Lord let me 

 see in what places He had a great people to be gathered. As I 

 went down, I found a spring of water in the side of the hill, 

 with which I refreshed myself, having eaten or drunic but little 

 several days before. 



At Barley there are chapels of the Wesleyan Metho- 

 dists and Primitive Methodists ; the latter was built 

 in 1 823. 



ROUGHLEE BOOTH 



Rughelegh, 1323 ; Rughlegh, 1324. 



This township extends in a north-easterly direction 

 from Newchurch, and has an area of 1,140^ acres,' 

 almost evenly divided by the winding valley through 

 which the stream of Ogden, here called Roughlee 

 Water, passes east, north and east to Barrowford. 

 Roughlee proper is about the centre of this part of 

 the valley. The southern half is occupied by two 

 ranges of hills, between which is Dimpenley Clough. 

 In the south-west corner is part of the village of 

 Newchurch, above which the hills attain 1,000 ft. 

 above sea level ; to the south-east, beyond Dimpenley, 

 they rise again to 850 ft. Thornyholme and Rldg- 

 aling (Ridge o' ling) lie on opposite sides of the 

 clough, to the north-east. The northern half is 

 also hilly, rising to over 1 ,000 ft. at Brown Hill and 

 Stank Top on the western boundary. Castor Gill 

 forms the northern boundary ; its stream flows east to 

 Blacko Water, which is a tributary of Roughlee Water. 

 In 1 90 1 there was a population of 301. 



There is a cotton mill at Roughlee, and some 

 bleaching is done. The soil is clay, overlying rock ; 

 it is almost entirely used for pasture, there being no 

 arable land ; 1,129 ^'^res are in permanent grass and 

 14J in woods or plantations. i" 



The township is governed by a parish council. 



The place was formerly called Roughlee Booths, 

 for there were two vaccaries in it, called Over and 

 Nether Roughlee. The two yielded 56/. in 1324,^ 

 when Richard de Marsden and Richard de Grenacre 

 were the farmers.' In 1423 Richard Shireburne 

 held the vaccary of Over Roughlee at farm for £^, 



'» Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



< Baines, Land. (ed. 1836), iii, 233. 



^ Lanes. Inp and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 200. 



^ Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 72. 



' Manknolls Ing is the name of a 

 farm west of Barley. 



8 Duchy of Lane. Mins. Accts. bdle. 

 76, no. 1498. 



9 Duchy of Lane. Receivers' Accts. 

 bdle. 90, no. 1649. The same rents 



were paid in 1464 ; Whi taker, Whalley, i, 

 358-9. 



'" Receivers' Accts. bdle. 90, no. i6;o. 



" Ibid. bdle. 91, no. 1662. 



12 MS. at Huntroyde. " Ibid. 



" Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 12. The other tenants were Agnes 

 and Lawrence Hargreaves, John Robinson, 

 senior and junior, William and Roger 

 Hartley, Robert and Thomas Varley, 

 John Bulcock and John Manknowles. 



1^ Grimshaw MS. 



18 Honor of Clitheroe MS. 



^' The other tenants wtre Peter Varley, 

 John Manknowles, James Higgin, Jamea 

 Bollard and the wife of William Varley. 



'^^ Journah (ed. 1765), 66. 



^ The Census Rep. 1901 gives i>i40 

 acres, including 8 of inland water. 



^^ StatisticB from Bd. of Agric. (1905), 



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

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 200. 



^ Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches,)^ 72. 



