. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Pippin Street, to the north Jack Green and Brindle Lodge, to the south-west Thorpe Green, Radburn and Rip Row. A brook, the Lostock, rising near the church runs east to the boundary, and then turning south-west itself forms the boundary for some distance. The population in 1901 was 1,026. The principal roads meet at the village ; they come from Hoghton, Walton-le-Dale, Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods. The nearest raihvay stations are Bamber Bridge and Hoghton, nearly 2 miles from the church. The Wigau and Lancaster Cana
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Pippin Street, to the north Jack Green and Brindle Lodge, to the south-west Thorpe Green, Radburn and Rip Row. A brook, the Lostock, rising near the church runs east to the boundary, and then turning south-west itself forms the boundary for some distance. The population in 1901 was 1,026. The principal roads meet at the village ; they come from Hoghton, Walton-le-Dale, Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods. The nearest raihvay stations are Bamber Bridge and Hoghton, nearly 2 miles from the church. The Wigau and Lancaster Canal goes along near the western border. St. Helen's wells are near the border of Whittle-le- Woods.' There are remains of several ancient crosses.^ The wake was held on the Friday in Whitsun week.' The government is in the hands of a parish council. To the ancient fifteenth Brindle paid I is. ?id. when the hundred paid ^^30 izs. id. ; and to the county of 1624 it paid £e, i is. \^d. out of ^; From its secluded situation in a hilly district the parish has had an uneventful history' ; yet it saw a little of the Civil War.' In more recent times some scandal was caused by its workhouse and lunatic asylum.' A muslin manufactory is mentioned in the Directory of 1824. There are now a cotton factory and chemical works, and the valuable stone quarries are worked. Grass and potatoes are the chief crops. There are 444 acres of arable land, 2,362 acres of permanent grass and 70 of woods and ;^ The soil is mainly clay and sand. One of Wesley's most prominent fellow-labourers, the Rev. William Grimshaw, was born at Brindle in 1708. Ordained for the Anglican ministry and curate of Howarth he worked energetically with the Methodists, and had great in- fluence in the border district of Lancashire and Yorkshire. He died in 1763.'! The manor of MJNOR BRINDLE was a member of the fee of Penwortham, and was in 1212 held, together with Anderton, by Robert Grelley, lord o
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