. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED MANCHESTER Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Charles Carill- Worsley, and assumed her ; Piatt Hall and estate is now the property of the Manchester Cor- poration. The Hall is a large plain brick house built about the year 1764" by John Carill Worsley, in place of the old timber and plaster building which stood not very far away on a site comprised within the area of the present garden. In an inventory of the contents of the old house taken in 1669, the follow- ing rooms and places are mentio
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED MANCHESTER Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Charles Carill- Worsley, and assumed her ; Piatt Hall and estate is now the property of the Manchester Cor- poration. The Hall is a large plain brick house built about the year 1764" by John Carill Worsley, in place of the old timber and plaster building which stood not very far away on a site comprised within the area of the present garden. In an inventory of the contents of the old house taken in 1669, the follow- ing rooms and places are mentioned : 'The hall, the great parlor, the buttery, the milk-house, the woman's parlor, the little parlor, the brewhouse, the kitchen with Bessy parlor, the drink-house, the cheese chamber, the cake chamber, the board loft, the little chamber, the general's chamber, the great chamber, the middle chamber, the high chamber, the little chamber and closet, the yarne chamber.' The BIRCH estate" descended from about 1260 to 1743 in a family taking a surname from it. Matthew son of Matthew de Haversage granted to Matthew son of Matthew de Birches the whole land of Hindley Birches, at a rent of p.; the bounds show that it lay between Gore Brook on the north and the Great Ditch on the ; Several of the family are said to have distinguished themselves in. fLATT jJALL «,a^. y Platt Hall, Rusholme the name of Carill Worslcy. Deborah had no children by him, and adopted her husband's son by a previous marriage, Thomas- Carill Worslcy. This Thomas accordingly came into possession of Platt, and on his death in 1808 was followed by his eldest son Thomas, who died in 1848, and then by his second son Charles. 3^ Burke, handed Gentry, as John Carill Worsley rebuilt 'the old mansion of the Worsleys with brick and stone ornaments in a very handsome style about thirty-five years ago, at the expense, as was then said, of ^^10,000* ; Gent, Mag, Ixix, 434, May 1799. ^^ Some of the Birch fami
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