BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



1609 were Lawrence Townley of Carr, John Hartley 

 of Admergill, John Hargreaves and Lawrence Hartley ; 

 Carr Mills paid £i^^ In 1662 Christopher 

 Towneley (the transcriber) in right of his wife held 

 Carr and paid the £1 for Carr Mills ; there were 

 about thirty other tenants, including James Robinson, 

 John Sutcliffe, Lawrence Robinson of Barrowford and 

 Lawrence Townley.^' 



CARR HALL was part of the possessions of the 

 Townleys of Barnside. After the marriage (i 754) of 

 their heiress Margaret with John Clayton of Little 

 Harwood it was made the principal residence of the 

 family. Their son. Colonel Thomas Clayton, high 

 sheriff in 1808, died in 1835, when Carr Hall with 

 the other estates passed by will to his daughter 

 Elizabeth, who had married Edward Every, the 

 additional surname of Clayton being t.iken.^" Captain 

 Every-Clayton died in 1885, and Carr Hall with the 

 appurtenant estate descended to his son, Mr. Edward 

 Every-Clayton of Skipton, by whom it was sold to 

 the late Mr. William Tunstill of Reedyford, whose 

 son, Mr. H. Tunstill, has recently sold the hall with 

 some adjacent land to Mr. Wilkinson Hartley and 

 other parcels of land to others. 



PARK HILL was held by a family named Banastre, 

 of whom Robert and Richard Banastre have been 

 named above, 1 474.-9 5. In 1461 Dr. Vincent 

 Clement, the papal collector and nuncio in England, 

 granted a dispensation for the marriage of Richard 

 Banastre and Joan Walton. -^ In 1478 lands in 

 Colne called Standroyd granted in trust by Richard 

 Banastre the elder (styled esquire) to his son Richard 

 the younger and Joan his wife were transferred by 

 the trustee to John Banastre, son of the younger 

 Richard and Isabel his wife, daughter of John 

 Popeley.^^ The ' manor ' of Park Hill and Lome- 

 shay in Marsden were in 1492 granted by his feoffees 

 to Robert Banastre with remainders to his sons James, 

 Henry and Christopher.^' Park Hill, again called a 

 manor, was in 1563 in possession of Henry Banister,^^ 

 and in 1596 a settlement of the Park Hill estate. 



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including part of the manor of Foulridge, was madt 

 by the same Henry Banister and Robert his son and 

 heir-apparent.-'' Henry Banister or Bannester died 

 in 1602 and his son Robert in 1616, when Park 

 Hill, with its lands, corn-mill and fulling-mill, was 

 said to be held of the king in socage as of his castle 

 of Clitheroe. The heir was Robert's son Charles, 

 then aged thirty-five and more, who had married 

 Ellen Parker. 2" Charles Banister died in 1637 

 holding the capital messuage of Park Hill of the king 

 as of the honor of Clitheroe and leaving a son and 

 heir John, aged thirty-four." John Banister made 

 his will in 1654,^8 and his son Henry occurs in 

 1655.20 Mr. Grimshaw was the owner in i836'<' 

 and Mr. Hargreaves in 1873.'' A side chapel in 

 Colne Church belonged to the Park Hill estate. 

 The building, a 1 7th-century two-story house, with 

 gables and mullioned windows, stands in a picturesque 

 situation on the banks of Pendle Water, surrounded 

 by trees. It is a good deal modernized, but most 

 of its original constructional features yet remain, and 

 there is a good mantelpiece in one of the rooms. 



RISHTON THORNS is mentioned in 1440-2, 

 Robert son of Lawrence de Legh of Clifton in 

 Burnley having there with a catapult killed a stag 

 and carried it away.'^ The place was in 1507 

 reported to be a pasture, from one moiety of which 

 no profit had been derived, while the other moiety 

 had been let to farm jointly with Over Barrowford. 

 One-half should have been demised to Miles Parker 

 at 20s., and John Chaloner offered 26.1. Se/., which 

 seems to have been accepted. '^ In 1527 Lawrence 

 Townley paid 26s. id.,^ and this part seems to have 

 remained attached to the Carr Hall estate ; it is not 

 named in later rentals. '' In 1527 also Lawrence 

 and James Hartley paid 32/. lod. for land in Nether 

 Barrowford and Rishton Thorns. Lands there called 

 the Six Forster Doles or Blackwood Doles were the 

 subject of an inquiry in 1550-2. The name was 

 said to have been given because the foresters of 

 Pendle had six horse gates in summer and certain 



'8 Grimshaw MS. 



" Honor of Clitheroe MS. (Towneley). 



^nwhitaker, Whallcy, ii, 395, 264. 

 See also the account of Little Harwood. 



i" Add. MS. 32104, no. 669. Richard 

 Banastre had had issue (whether lawful 

 or not is not stated) by Joan Parker, <s 

 first cousin of Joan Walton. 



Robert Banastre of Park Hill is said 

 to have married Isabel daughter of Law- 

 rence Townley ; Dugdale, V'nit. (Chet. 

 Soc), 308. 



22 Add. MS. 32104, no. 613. These 

 deeds may refer to some other of the 

 Banastre families. 



In 1484-5 three sons of a Robert 

 Banastre are recorded: Henry, Mate of 

 Park Hill,' Christopher and James ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Writs Proton, file 2 Ric. III. 



In 1496 Robert Banastre held a mes- 

 suage and lands in Park Hill in the forest 

 of Pendle and Little Marsden ; Final 

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

 145- 



2» Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 B235. See also Add. MS. 32104, no. 

 1 1 16. 



2* Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 25, 

 m. 257. Henry Banister of Park Hill in 

 1566 became bound to John Towneley of 

 Cornfield (and Towneley) and Robert 

 Banister his own son and heir-apparent ; 



Towneley MS. C 8, 13, B310. Robert 

 was to marry Ellen, a bastard daughter 

 of John Towneley ; ibid. B445. 



Robert Banister had sons Henry, 

 Richard and Charles, of whom the eldest 

 was in 1582 contracted to marry Anne 

 daughter of Bernard Towneley of Hurst- 

 wood ; ibid. B446. Robert Banister and 

 Ellen his wife made a settlement of the 

 estate in that year ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 44, m. 25. 



^ Ibid. bdle. 59, m. 49. 



'^ Lanes. Inq.p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 29-30. See also Dugdale, 

 Fish. 228 and Towneley MS. C 8, 13, 

 B444. 



"Ibid. C 8, 13, p. 71. Charles 

 Banastre of Park Hill in 163 1 paid ,f 10 

 as composition on declining knighthood j 

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

 217. 



2' Towneley MS. C 8, 13, B71. The 

 will mentions John's sons Henry, Francis 

 and John and his daughters Elizabeth, 

 Ellen and Alice. Henry was to marry 

 Elizabeth daughter of Henry Shaw of 

 Langroyd. A marginal note by Towne- 

 ley states that John Banister, the father, 

 married Ellen Edmondson. 



-'' Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 157, 

 m. 172. 



The fortunes of the Banisters soon 



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afterwards declined. *Iii 1661 the family 

 rebuilt Park Hill and soon after mort- 

 gaged the larger portion of the house and 

 estate to a Mr. John Swinglehirst of Gill 

 in the forest of Gisburn, who eventually 

 became mortgagee in possession. Other 

 portion of the house and estate was 

 subsequently sold to a Mr. Yorker, who 

 (or whose descendants) sold it in after 

 years to Mr. Gamaliel Sutcliffe of Stone 

 Shcy Gate, Heptonstall, great-grandfather 

 of the present (1878) owner*; Carr, 

 Annals of Colne y 125-6. 



^^ Baines, Lanes, (ed. i), iii, 243. 



*^ Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 264. 



*^ Pal. of Lane. Assize R. 3 (20 

 Hen. VI), m. lo. 



fl» MS. at Huntroyde. 



*■* Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 12. 



^^ The heading in 1662 is 'Barrow- 

 ford cum Rushton Thornes.' 



In 1542 at the halmote of Ightcnhill 

 Rishton Thorns and a part of it called 

 New Carr passed from the feoffees of 

 Ellen Townley to Lawrence Townley, 

 who was admitted. The rent is given as 

 ijs. ^Id. 



Suit to the mill at New Carr Close 

 was in dispute in 1547; Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 230. For later disputes 

 see ibid, iii, 321, 488. 



