AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



KIRKHAM 



KIRKHAM 



KIRKHAM 



MEDLAR-WITH-WESHAM 



RIBBY-WITH-WREA 



BRYNING-WITH-KELLAMERGH 



CLIFTON-WITH-SALWICK 



NEWTON-WITH-SCALES 



FRECKLETON 



WARTON 



WESTBY-WITH-PLUMPTONS 



WEETON-WITH-PREESE 



TREALES, ROSEACRE AND WHARLES 



GREENHALGH-WITH-THISTLETON 



LITTLE ECCLESTON-WITH-LARBRECK 



SINGLETON 



HAMBLETON 



GOOSNARGH 



WHITTINGHAM 



In addition to the township which affords a name 

 to the whole, the parish of Kirkham contains thirteen 

 others extending north from the Ribble to the Wyre, 



district. Thus, after other parishes had been cut off, 

 the detached fragments of Goosnargh remained subject 

 to Kirkham ; and in early times the rectors and 



a distance of 8 miles, one on the further side of 

 the latter river, and the two townships of Goosnargh 

 and Whittingham, to the east, quite detached from 

 the main part, Newsham again being a detached 

 hamlet of Goosnargh. The area of Kirkham proper 

 is 33,564^ acres, and of Goosnargh chapelry 11,864, 

 making a total of 45,428^ acres, including 2,788 

 acres of tidal water. The population in 1 90 1 was 



There are indications in addition to the name to 

 show that Kirkham was the ecclesiastical head of the 



vicars seem to have been also usually deans of Amoun- 

 derness. Otherwise there is little to notice in the 

 history. The great lords, temporal and spiritual, 

 were non-resident. The chief local family was that 

 of Clifton in the south ; the others appear to have 

 been little more than yeomen, though some acquired 

 greater importance in course of time. The parish is 

 comparatively seldom mentioned in the records. 

 The 'fifteenth,' which became fixed about the 

 15th century, shows the relative importance of the 

 various townships at that time, 2 and the county lay, 



1 The total is composed thus : Kirk- 

 ham proper, 11,138 ; Goosnargh, 4,327. 

 Of the former of these, the townships of 

 Kirkham and Wesham contain half. 



2 Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 19. 

 The details are : Kirkham, 161. \d. ; 



Bryning, £1 2J. ; Clifton, £1 2j. id. 

 Eccleston, Little, lis. id. ; Freckleton 

 £1 ioj. 6d. ; Greenhalgh, £1 41. z\d. 

 Medlar, £1 21.; Newton, £1 11.; Ribby, 

 i6j.; Treales, i8j. ijrf.; Warton, £1 45.: 

 Weeton, £1; Westby, 12s. id.; Single- 



143 



ton, ,£1 4*. ; Hambleton, i6j. q.d. — 

 making a total of £15 is. 6d. when 

 the hundred paid £56 41. id. 



In addition to this Goosnargh paid 

 £2 6s. id., Newsham 41. id. and Whit- 

 tingham £1 7s. 9j</. 



