. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Fenton of Dutton. Per pale argent and sable a cross dovetailed, in the first and fourth quarters afieur de lis and in the second and third a tre- foil slipped all counter- changed. Townley in 1562 described the tenure of his estate as socage or in the nature of Richard Townley of Dutton in 1618 held his lands in Dutton of Richard Shireburne of Stony- hurst by the service of a red rose yearly ; he also held lands in Ribchester, Dilworth and A pedigree was recorded in The
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Fenton of Dutton. Per pale argent and sable a cross dovetailed, in the first and fourth quarters afieur de lis and in the second and third a tre- foil slipped all counter- changed. Townley in 1562 described the tenure of his estate as socage or in the nature of Richard Townley of Dutton in 1618 held his lands in Dutton of Richard Shireburne of Stony- hurst by the service of a red rose yearly ; he also held lands in Ribchester, Dilworth and A pedigree was recorded in The estates descended to Abraham Townley, who died in 1701, leaving two sons, Henry and Richard, the latter of whom is noticed in the account of Belfield in Rochdale. Henry Townley died in 1731, leav- ing three daughters as co- ll e i r s. The eldest, Jane, married Edward Entwisle of Ribchester, and by a partition in 1738 the Dutton estate descended to their 'In 1805 Mr. W. Joule purchased the estate, and in 1823 sold it to Mr. James Rothwell, whose nephew, the late Marquis de Rothwell, of Bolton, was the owner till his death ' in DUTTON HALL is a picturesque two-story stone house, with balled gables and mullioned windows, finely situated on the southern slope of Longridge Fell, and commanding a magnificent view to the south over the Ribble Valley. The house is said to have been erected by Richard Townley about 1670-80,16 but there is no date or inscription anywhere on the building itself. It is now used as a farm-house, and the west wing is unoccupied. The front, facing south, is 63 ft. in length, and consists of two end gabled wings with a recessed middle part containing the hall, the plan being a later adaptation of the general type of the preceding century. The doorway, however, is in the east wing, and the principal feature of the front elevation is the great square bay window of the hall, which occupies nearly the whole of the space between the wings in t
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