AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



PART OF 

 LANCASTER 



A school was founded in Lea in 1784 by Samuel 

 Neeld. 90 



The Wesleyans had a chapel in Ashton in 1883 ; 

 the present church was built in 1893. There is a 

 Baptist church in Ashton, founded about 1880. 



From the accounts of the manors it will have been 

 gathered that Roman Catholic worship was maintained 



with more or less constancy during the long period of 

 proscription. 91 When owing to sale Cottam Hall 

 was not available, the mission appears to have been 

 removed to the adjoining township. 92 In 1800 the 

 old mission at Salwick Hall was transferred to Lea, 

 St. Mary's Church being built there. In Ashton the 

 Church of the Sacred Heart was built in 1903-4. 



PART OF LANCASTER 



FULWOOD 



Fulewde, 1 199 ; Fulewude, 1228; Fulwode, 

 129?. 



This township, formerly a woodland area and now 

 to a great extent a residential suburb of Preston, lies 

 to the north of Preston and Ribbleton. The Savock 

 (or Savick) Brook crosses the centre, flowing west- 

 south-west to the Ribble. The western end is called 

 Cadley or Cadeley ; Killinsough is in the north-east. 

 The surface, slightly undulating according to the 

 watercourses, rises on the whole from west to east, 

 attaining over 200 ft. above sea level. The township 

 has an area of 2,1 16 J 1 acres, and in 1 90 1 contained 

 a population of 5,238, including 1,101 in the barracks, 

 784 in the workhouse, and others in charitable insti- 

 tutions. 



Garstang Road, the main road from Preston to the 

 north, crosses its western end, but a more noteworthy 

 one is that which runs east and west near the 

 southern border ; it is called Watling Street, and is 

 supposed to be on the track of an old Roman road 

 from Ribchester to the sea. The Preston and Long- 

 ridge railway passes through the south-eastern corner 

 of the township, where there is a station called 

 Ribbleton. To the north of it is the hamlet called 

 Fulwood Row. The London and North- Western 

 Company's main line to the north crosses the western 



end of the township. The electric tramways of 

 Preston serve Fulwood. 



The township contains the Preston Union Work- 

 house, built in 1865-8, and a large barracks, 1848, 

 the dep6t of the 30th and 47th Regimental Dis- 

 tricts, including the Loyal North Lancashire Regi- 

 ment, the old 47th and 8 1st Foot. On Garstang 

 Road, on an estate formerly known as Crow Trees, is 

 the Harris Orphanage for about 140 children, opened 

 in 1888.* Homes for the Blind were opened in 

 1 896.* The Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor 

 and St. Vincent's Home for Boys, a Poor Law school 

 founded in 1893 in memory of the late Bishop 

 O'Reilly, are also in Fulwood. 



A local board was formed in 1 863.* Since 1894 

 there has been an urban district council of twelve 

 members, elected by three wards — Central, East, and 

 West. For parliamentary elections Fulwood is included 

 in Preston. 



The open land is chiefly in pasturage ; the soil is 

 loam and clay, with subsoil various. 



Races used to be held on Fulwood Moor. They 

 were discontinued about 1833. 5 



Fulwood was probably included in the 



MJNOR forest of Lancaster on its formation, 6 and 



was thus taken out of the township and 



parish of Preston. 7 It occurs but seldom in the 



records before its disaffbrestation, 8 but part was in 



trials showed that the registers at Preston, 

 Kirkham, Poulton and Lytham had been 

 tampered with, as also the official tran- 

 scripts at Chester ; 'had the court rolls of 

 the manor of Lea near Preston not been 

 preserved there is only too much reason 

 to believe that the ingenuity of the forgers 

 would have been rewarded before their 

 forgeries could have been exposed . . . 

 These court rolls were kept in private 

 hands, and so were out of the reach of the 

 forgers, even if they had known how im- 

 portant they really were.' 



m End. Char. Rep. for Preston. 



91 See, e.g., the account of Thomas 

 Hoghton of Hoghton. Alexander Hogh- 

 ton was reported as contumacious in 

 1586; Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1868), i, 180. 

 Mrs. Hoghton of Lea was reported to 

 keep a ' Papist ' schoolmaster j Fishwick, 

 Proton, 264. Mass was said at Tulketh 

 in 1607 and confirmation given there in 

 1687 ; ibid. The Eyves "family resided 

 at Ashton ; Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of Engl. 

 Cath. iii, 288. 



m See Woodplumpton. 



1 Including 3 acres of inland water. 



3 End. Char. Rep. (Lane), 1902, p. 3. 

 There is an endowment of about ,£2,700 

 a year. 



3 They were founded in Preston in 

 1864. ; Hewitson, Preston, 243. 



4 Lond. Gaz. 10 Mar. 1863. 



5 Hewitson, Preston, 120. 



6 See the account of the forest. 



7 There was a dispute between the 

 incumbents of Preston and Lancaster 

 churches as to the tithes of the forest of 

 Fulwood and the park of Hyde in 1323 ; 

 Lane. Ch. (Chet. Soc), ii, 448-50. 



8 Free pasturage in the forest of Fulwood 

 was allowed to the burgesses of Preston 

 by King John's charter of n 99, together 

 with as much wood as they might require 

 for building their town, on the view of the 

 foresters ; Abram, Mem. of the Guilds, 3. 

 The grants were confirmed and extended by 

 later charters. See also Inq. a.q.d. 19 

 Edw. II, no. 183 ; Lanes, and Ches. Rec. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 272, 

 275, &c. 



The bounds of Fulwood were thus de- 

 fined in 1228 : From the hey of Ravenkel 

 to the road of Dunepool, along the water- 

 course to Deepdale, to the upper head of 

 Lund, by the watercourse of Deepdale to 

 Fulwood and so to Uctredsgate, by the 

 road to Coleford, thence to Cadley Shaw 

 and to the hey of Ravenkel ; Farrer, 

 Lanes. Pipe R. 421. 



Pontage for five years was allowed in 

 1 291 for repairing the causeway of 

 Fulwood ; Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 430. 



In 1297 the forest was worth a mark 

 yearly to the Earl of Lancaster, and in 

 addition the men of Broughton paid 10s. 



137 



for having common there ; Lanes. Inq. 

 and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 289-90. 



Some particulars are given in the 

 survey made in I 346 in Add. MS. 32103, 

 fol. 148. John de Burton held the 

 herbage of Myerscough and a close called 

 Cadley in Fulwood ; Grimbald the Mercer 

 had pasture rights, &c, in Fulwood, as 

 had Thomas Banastre for Broughton. 

 Roger de Elston had Killanshagh 

 (KLillinsough), a piece of waste by Fulwood, 

 at a rent of 401. Thomas son ot 

 Lawrence Travers had Great Cadley. 



In 1442 Thomas Urswick had a lease 

 of the pastures of Myerscough and Fulwood 

 in the forest of Amounderness and an 

 annuity of £10 a year from them.; Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 536. 



A charge of cutting down and carrying 

 away trees and underwood in the king's 

 forest of Fulwood was in the time of 

 Edward IV preferred against William 

 Singleton of Broughton, Brian Singleton 

 of the same, Richard Singleton of Ingol- 

 head, John Singleton of the Peel (son of 

 Nicholas of Brockholes) and others ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 29, m. 9 d. 



The king in 1481 included 40 acres of 

 moor in Fulwood in his grant to Sir 

 Thomas Molyneux, but it was not per- 

 manent ; see the account of Eccleston in 

 Leyland. 



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