. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE HARD HORN-WIT H-NEWTON Hordorn, 1332. Nuton, 1332. Staininghe, Dom. Bk.; Steyininges, 1292 ; Stayn- yng, 1297 ; Steyninge, 1302. This township is bounded on the south and east by the brook running from Marton Mere to join the Wyre. The surface is in general low and level, but there are elevated portions rising to 50 ft. above sea level in the centre, south and east. On the central one stands the hamlet of Hardhorn ; to the south-west is Newton and to the south Staining ; while near the south-eastern bo
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE HARD HORN-WIT H-NEWTON Hordorn, 1332. Nuton, 1332. Staininghe, Dom. Bk.; Steyininges, 1292 ; Stayn- yng, 1297 ; Steyninge, 1302. This township is bounded on the south and east by the brook running from Marton Mere to join the Wyre. The surface is in general low and level, but there are elevated portions rising to 50 ft. above sea level in the centre, south and east. On the central one stands the hamlet of Hardhorn ; to the south-west is Newton and to the south Staining ; while near the south-eastern boundary is Todderstaffe Hall. The area is 2,651' acres and the population in 1901 numbered 597. A road leads north-west through Staining and Newton and then north to Poulton, with branches west to Blackpool and north and east to Hardhorn and Singleton. The Preston and Wyre railway runs near the eastern boundary, with a station at Todder- staffe called Singleton. Agriculture is the only industry, chiefly as dairy farms. The soil is variable, with subsoil clay. The township is governed by a parish council. Richard Davie or Davies of Newton raised a company for the Parliament's service in the Civil War, but was killed with most of his men at the capture of Bolton in 1644.' In 1066 STAINING, assessed as six MANOR plough-lands, was part of Earl Tostig's lordship of Preston.' Afterwards it was held by the Constable of Chester, for about 1134 William Fitz Nigel, lord of Halton, granted three plough-lands in Staining to his newly-founded priory of Runcorn, while his son William recovered them when he transferred the house to Norton, but granted two-thirds of the demesne tithes to the His successor, John de Lacy, 1211-40, gave the whole in free alms to Stanlaw Abbey.* Later the monks were said to hold it by the service of half a knight's fee and a castle-ward rent ol * The grange of Staining seems to have been the abbey's manor-house for all their estates io the Fylde. In 13
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