. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE present ; the alteration was made to avoid the very sharp curve at which the Blackpool line turned off. The port at Skippool was formerly of local There was a market on Monday and customary fairs are still held in February, April and A court of requests for the recovery of small debts was established in 1770. The soil is clayey, overlying stiff clav. Poulton is governed by an urban district council of twelve members. The town has been lighted by gas since 1851 ; the works were p
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE present ; the alteration was made to avoid the very sharp curve at which the Blackpool line turned off. The port at Skippool was formerly of local There was a market on Monday and customary fairs are still held in February, April and A court of requests for the recovery of small debts was established in 1770. The soil is clayey, overlying stiff clav. Poulton is governed by an urban district council of twelve members. The town has been lighted by gas since 1851 ; the works were purchased by the council in 1903. There is a cemetery in the Breck, laid out in 1883. A halfpenny token was issued in 1667 by James Smith, a Quaker, who had suffered imprisonment for refusing to take an A shilling token was issued about Before the Conquest POULTON, as- MJNOR sessed as two plough-lands, was held by Earl Tostig8 and afterwards became part of the lands of Count Roger of Poitou, who, as stated in the account of the church, gave it to the Abbey of St. Martin of Thus it became part of the endowment of St. Mary's Priory at Lancaster and afterwards of the Bridgitine Abbey of Syon in Middlesex. Beyond the charters of endowment and a few later acquisitionsI0 there is but little record of the place, and no ' manor' seems to have been. acknowledged in later times," except in 1634, when Alexander Rigby of Middleton and others held ; Thornbcr, writing in 1837, says: 'The principal part of Poulton . . passed into the hands of the Rigbys of Layton Hall, in whose name the greatest number of its houses are leased for the remainingterm ofo,;' The Prior of Lancaster com- plained in 1330 that he had been seized and imprisoned at Poulton by Sir Adam Banastre, Richard the Demand and others, and that his men had been assaulted, &c. A fine of a mark was imposed. The dispute seems to have arisen over a right of way and the collection of
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