. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED LEYLAND LEYLAND EUXTON CUERDEN CLAYTON-LE-WOODS WHITTLE-LE-WOODS HOGHTON WITHNELL WHEELTON HEAPEY This extensive parish, having an area of 19,265^ acres and a population in 1901 of 17,940, appears from its irregular shape to bo a remnant of a larger district, from which at various times other parishes have been cut ofF. At one time the townships of Hoghton, Withnell, Wheelton and Whittle-Ie-Woods formed a district or lordship bearing the special name of Gunolfsmoors. This part includes most of the hilly countr
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED LEYLAND LEYLAND EUXTON CUERDEN CLAYTON-LE-WOODS WHITTLE-LE-WOODS HOGHTON WITHNELL WHEELTON HEAPEY This extensive parish, having an area of 19,265^ acres and a population in 1901 of 17,940, appears from its irregular shape to bo a remnant of a larger district, from which at various times other parishes have been cut ofF. At one time the townships of Hoghton, Withnell, Wheelton and Whittle-Ie-Woods formed a district or lordship bearing the special name of Gunolfsmoors. This part includes most of the hilly country in the eastern half of the parish ; in the Leyland or western half the surface becomes comparatively level. The township was anciently divided into four ' quarters,' viz. Leyland, Euxton, Cuerden with Clay- ton and Whittle, and the Moors, each of which paid equally to the county lay fixed in 1624.' To the fifteenth the various town- ships paid thus :—Leyland, £\ OS. , Euxton, £1 5;. "jd. ; Cuerden, 15^. 81^.; Clayton, £1 ; Whittle, I js. \d. ; Hoghton, 6s. C)d. ; Withnell with Roddleswort h, 7/. %d. ; Wheelton with Heapey, 11^. ; a total of j^6 \s. 2d., when the hundred paid £30 12/. 8^.' The agricultural land in the parish now amounts to nearly 16,000 acres, and is occupied as follows :— Arable, 2,530 acres; per- manent grass, 12,454 acres; woods and plantations, 726 acres.' Although Leyland stood upon one of the ancient roads to the north, and gave a name to the hundred, there is little distinction about its history. The principal family, that of Hoghton, long had posses- sions outside the hundred which seem to have been more attractive, as at Lea and later at Walton ; the Faringtons became the principal residents in the western part of the parish about 1560, and have maintained their pre-eminence.* The Reformation left a large number of the minor gentry and people faithful to the Roman Catholic religion.' The Commonwealth sequestrations involved the princi
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