. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Tumuli at Winkley10 are supposed to mark the scene of some ancient struggle for the passage of the river, but the chief historical event is the stay of Cromwell at Stonyhurst on two occasions in August The Jacobite rising of I 71 5 caused some excitement. In Chaigley there are remains of a barracks in which soldiers were then stationed in order to quell the Apart from the Shireburnes the most distinguished native was Henry Holden, , a Roman Catholic divine born in 1596 at Chaigley
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Tumuli at Winkley10 are supposed to mark the scene of some ancient struggle for the passage of the river, but the chief historical event is the stay of Cromwell at Stonyhurst on two occasions in August The Jacobite rising of I 71 5 caused some excitement. In Chaigley there are remains of a barracks in which soldiers were then stationed in order to quell the Apart from the Shireburnes the most distinguished native was Henry Holden, , a Roman Catholic divine born in 1596 at Chaigley. He took part in the controversies of the time, and was himself sus- pected of Jansenism, unjustly as it appears. He lived abroad for the most part and became vicar-general of Paris. He died in In 1836, apart from agriculture, the industries were hand-loom weaving of cotton, wood-bobbin making, lime burning and stone At present little corn is grown, the land being mostly pasture ; the areas are thus returned for Aighton, Bailey and Bowland with Leagram : arable land, 32 acres; permanent grass, 7,262^ ; woods and plantations, 641 Oxen seem to have been used as draught animals down to recent The deer park at Stonyhurst existed till There are remains of a number of ancient At Aighton there seems to have been a St. Michael's In Chaigley is St. Chad's Well. In 1086 AIGHTON, assessed as one MANORS plough-land, was recorded among the king's manors in Amounderness which twenty years earlier had been held by Earl Tostig as appurtenant to Preston, and after him by Roger of Afterwards it belonged, for a time at least, to Warine Bussel, one of Roger's knights and ancestor of the lords of Penwortham. Again coming into the king's hands, it was in 1102 given by Henry I to Robert de Lacy, and from that time onward formed part of the great fee or honor of Robert immediately bestowed Aighton, together with Grea
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