. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. modern wood frames and brick heads, and there TTe'han ''°"; ^1"°⢠-i" 'he rest of'the house The hall window is of six lights with hood mould over, and the other windows are of four and two lights, the lower one at the north end being placed out of the centre. The old windows have all round chamfered mullions and hood moulds. The bricks are 2 J in. thick and have weathered a warm dark red, and the greater part of the front being covered with ivy the colour effect is very good. Th
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. modern wood frames and brick heads, and there TTe'han ''°"; ^1"°⢠-i" 'he rest of'the house The hall window is of six lights with hood mould over, and the other windows are of four and two lights, the lower one at the north end being placed out of the centre. The old windows have all round chamfered mullions and hood moulds. The bricks are 2 J in. thick and have weathered a warm dark red, and the greater part of the front being covered with ivy the colour effect is very good. The win- dows are glazed ^vlth square quarries and the porch has a four-centred arched doorway with hood mould and old oak nail-studded door. The Hospitallers had land in Clayton in 1292.' The names of few of the ancient freeholders of Clayton are known. Robert Werden or Warden in 1580 held a in Clayton of Sir Edmund Huddleston and Dorothy his wife' ; and a few other names occur.' Under the Commonwealth the estates of Matthew Martin * and John Critchlow of Clayton were sequestered.' Henry Harrison, Thomas Hogh- ton, and several Woodcocks in 1717 registered estates as ''° In 1788 the chief landowner Wilbraham Bootle, contributing nearly a third of the land tax.' There was formerly a Methodist chapel, built in 1830.' The Roman Catholic church of St. Bede, Clayton Green, opened in 1822, is an offshoot of Brownedge. It is served by the Benedictines.' Bootle of Lathom. Gules on a che-veron en- graded between three combs argent as many crossesformyfilchy oj the Jield. Wythull, 1242 Wode, 1304. WHITTLE-LE-WOODS Whythill (or Whithull) in the The northern of this hilly township is '"^'-"^'^^ by the Lostock, here flowing from cast '» ""'/'"'â ' then north. In the angle thus formed lies the v ilia ^, with the hamlet of Rip Row to the north. ne ground here rises to over 400 ft. above sea lev-el. The larger part of Whittle s
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