. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE STAN DISH WITH LAXGTREE SHEVIXGTON WELCH WHITTLE STANDISH CHARNOCK RICHARD DUXBURY HEATH CHARNOCK ADLINGTON ANDFRTOX WORTIIIXGIOX COPPULL The parish of Standish has an area of 15,377^ acres, and its population in 1901 numbered 18,496. It is curious that the township of Wigan, physically belonging to Standish, has always lain in another parish and hundred. On the formation of the barony of Penwortham, about 1100, the whole of this parish was included within it, except the town- ships of Worthington and
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE STAN DISH WITH LAXGTREE SHEVIXGTON WELCH WHITTLE STANDISH CHARNOCK RICHARD DUXBURY HEATH CHARNOCK ADLINGTON ANDFRTOX WORTIIIXGIOX COPPULL The parish of Standish has an area of 15,377^ acres, and its population in 1901 numbered 18,496. It is curious that the township of Wigan, physically belonging to Standish, has always lain in another parish and hundred. On the formation of the barony of Penwortham, about 1100, the whole of this parish was included within it, except the town- ships of Worthington and CoppuU, which were given to Manchester. Though one of the ancient roads to the north passes through it,l its history has been comparatively uneventful, but the Reformation and. the Revolution met with much quiet oppoiition. The Young Pretender in 1745 mnrched through the , but obtained no adherents from it. The Duke of Cumberland marched through in pursuit, and the bells were rung. The district has remained to a great extent agricultural, but coal-mining and manufactures have long been carried The agricultural land in the parish is now used as follows: âArable, 4,532 acres; permanent grass, 8,460; woods and plantations, 598.' The ancient 'fifteenth" from the parish amounted to £6 I 2/. J^^d. when the hundred paid /30 I is. id.'*; while to the county lay of 1624 this parish paid two-ninths of the sum levied from the hundred.' The principal landowner contributing to the subsidy of 1525 was Ralph Standish of Standish, but many others are named in the parish.* Several recusants com- pounded in 1628.' Dr. Kuerdcn in his itinerary, \vritten about 1690, mentions several of the features of the district':â'Having passed Standish you come to the Quakers . . then crossing a little arched bridge of stone you pass over Coppull Moor, and on the right hand leave IMainscough Hall belonging to the ancient family of the Worth- iiigtons, a little above which stands Coppull C
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