A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



After parsing from the Robin ons the hi tory of 

 Old Laund Hall is obscure, but in the last century it 

 belonged to the Greenwoods of Pal.ice House in 

 Habersham Eaves, and is now the property of Mr. 

 Harry Tunstill of ReeJyforJ House. The adjoining 

 messu.iges of Higher Old Laund and Raven's Clough 

 are in the same ownership. 



OLD LALSD H.iLL stands on a high bank above 

 a small brook a short distance from the north b.ink 

 of Pendle \\'a:;r about a mile to the south-west of 

 Nelson. The building is of local stone with long 

 quoins at the angles, and consists of two wings at 

 right angles, the longer one, which faces south, being 

 of two stories and apparently dating from the latter 

 half of the 1 6th century. It is about 5 5 ft. in length, 

 with a projecting chimney in the gable at each end. 

 The principal front overlooking the brook has two 

 large muUioned and transomed windows of si.x and 

 seven round-headed lights under a square label on 

 the ground floor and smaller muUioned windows 

 above. The roof remains only over the east end, 

 and the building is in a state of dilapidation and 

 partial ruin. The north-e.ist wing, which is of three 

 stories, appears to be of slightly later date, and is 

 now used as a farm-house. It is 3 i ft. in length and 

 41 ft. across the gable end facing north, on which 

 side is a small stone bay window corbelled out 

 above the third story. The window is out of 

 the centre of the gable and the lights arc now built 

 up, but it forms an interesting architectural feature 

 in an otherwise plainly designed house. The old 

 porch, which stands in front of the junction of the 

 two wings and is now whitewashed, has a four- 

 centred arched doorway with initials in the ^panJrels, 

 but only the first (W) is decipherable. On the 

 principal or east front of the inhabited wing are three 

 long muUioned windows of six lights, one to each 

 flojr. The roofs are covered with stone slates, and 

 the buildings, which are partly overgrown ^vith ivy, 

 form a very picturesque group. 



FEXCE. — By the inquest of 1402 to ascertain the 

 ancient rights and customs of the inhabitants of 

 Blackburnshire, it was declared that every tenant 

 ought by right to have a work horse for 4^/. and tuo 

 beasts for 2i/. agisting within ' le Fens ' of Pendle 

 between Michaelmas and the following Whitsuntide." 

 That part of the forest known as the Fence lay in 

 Higham, West Close and Goldsh.iw Booth. It was 

 not specifically granted with the rest of the forest by 

 the commissioners of I 507 ; but at the halmote of 

 Ightenhill held at Higham 6 June 1526 the jury 

 considered a proclamation by the general auditor 

 reciting that there were certain grounds called Fence 

 within the vaccaries of Higham, West Close and 

 Goldshaw upon which ' the herd of the st.ags always 

 before the deforesting had their several living,' and 

 inquiring if any would hold the said parcel of the 

 king or inform the auditor and steward why the king 

 should ni : make improvement from the parcel called 

 the Fence. The verdict was that the king ought 

 not to take the Fence to improve because Henry VII 

 in 1507 had surrendered that parcel to the use of 

 the tenants of Higham, West Close and Goldshaw 



Booth, to be held by them and their heirs for 

 ever." 



.Although the precise position of the Fence is un- 

 known, the irregular boundaries of Cjoldshaw Booth, 

 Higham-with-West Close and the detached portion 

 of Old Laund Booth for some distance round Fence 

 Gate, Hewn Ashlar and Fence House point it out 

 appro.ximately. Fence Gate is now owned by 

 Mr. William H. Hartley. 



Edmund Nutter of Sabden and John and Anthony 

 his sons in 1523 surrendered their lands in the Fence 

 in Pendle to the use of John Robinson of the Old 

 Laund and his heirs." James Hargreaves of Fence 

 was at a visitation in 1535 presented for doing work 

 on a holiday.** 



St. Anne's Church, Fence, was built in 1837 for 

 the worship of the Church of England, and became 

 a separate parish in 1S45. The patronage is in the 

 hands of Mr. William H. Hartley. 



The oratory of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, 

 Wheatley Lane, opened in 1899, is served from 

 Nelson. 



COLNE 



Calna, 1 2 30; Kaun, 1241; Caune, l25l;Colne, 

 1311. 



The chapelry of Colne embraces the townships of 

 Colne, Marsden and Foulridge, Barrowford Booth in 

 Pendle, and Trawden. 



Tlie main portion of Colne township lies on the 

 north side of the stream here called Colne Water,' 

 flowing west to join Pendle Water, a tributary of the 

 Calder. The older part of the town of Colne occupies 

 a central position on a ridge of ground 600 ft. above 

 the sea, about a quarter of a mile north of the river, 

 on the banks of which is the part called Waterside, 

 with a bridge — no doubt the bridge mentioned in the 

 Court Roll of 1323. The township has two large 

 moorland projections ; one, north-east between the 

 two portions of Foulridge, extends to the county 

 border and includes the elevation called Piked Edge, 

 1,165 ft-; the other, a hillside tract eastward between 

 li.irniide and Trawden, also cxtendstothecounty border 

 as Emmott Moor, having the Laneihaw, the principal 

 affluent of Colne Water, on the north, and rising to 

 1,430 ft. at the Wolf Stones in the south-eastern 

 corner. North of the town the surface descends, the 

 brook across which is Vivary Bridge ' flowing down 

 the hollow, and then rises again, a long ridge, which 

 may be described as an extension of Piked Edge, 

 reaching to the western boundary, where the ground 

 falls away steeply to form the clough down which 

 flows Wanless Water south to join Colne Water. 

 This ridge at one point attains 728 ft. above sea 

 level. North of it, in the lower ground, are the large 

 Foulridge reservoirs for the service of the Leeds and 

 Liverpool Canal. The area of the township 134,635 

 acres, and its population in 1 90 1 numbered 19,0^5. 

 The present extended township contains 5,063 acres,' 

 and has a population of 23,000. 



At the western end of the township are Greenfield, 

 in the corner between Colne and Wanless Waters • 



'» Whitaker, U'ruHiy, i, 266. 



* Clithcroe Castle Ct. R. 9 ; 'W'hitaker, 

 op. cit. i, :;oi. 



"Add. Ms. ;3i04, no. 1273. J.hn 

 Rubiason of * HalJla'jrid ' was a juror in 



1522 and 1529 ; fyhdlty Act S{. (Chet. 

 Soc), S5, 122. 



^Ih d. 176. 



' Sometimes named the Calder. 



^ This bridge takes its name from the 



522 



Vivers, an ancient fishpond for the service 

 of Colne H ill. The fishery mentioned 

 below was at this place. 



» Including 72 acres of inland wjtcr 5 

 Cimui Ref>, 1901. 



