. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Stanley, Earl of Derby. Argent on a bend a^ure three stags^ heads cahasscd or. Fleming of Croiton,' and was followed by his son Roger - and his grandson William.' William's son Robert in 1558 sold the Bispham estate to William Stopford,'' and the latter's residence was known as the Hall of Bispham.^ This estate was sold to William Ashhurst of Dalton in 1610/ and seems to have descended since that time like Dalton.' John Singleton and Richard Tinckler were landowners about 1620.* The Earl of Derby was
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Stanley, Earl of Derby. Argent on a bend a^ure three stags^ heads cahasscd or. Fleming of Croiton,' and was followed by his son Roger - and his grandson William.' William's son Robert in 1558 sold the Bispham estate to William Stopford,'' and the latter's residence was known as the Hall of Bispham.^ This estate was sold to William Ashhurst of Dalton in 1610/ and seems to have descended since that time like Dalton.' John Singleton and Richard Tinckler were landowners about 1620.* The Earl of Derby was the chief land- owner in 1789, paying more than half the land tax. Richard Wilbraham Bootle paid about an ; There was a chapel in the manor in 1522, but nothing is known of its history.^" A free school was founded at Bispham in 169; by Richard Durning.^' It was meant to be a grammar school, and was in fact at one period a classical school of some repute. Girls as well as boys had been taught. In 1825 there were about 35 boys, and two of them were instructed in Latin. The school con- tinued to decline in standing and has long been a public elementary school. The endowment, which now produces over ^£200 a year, is regulated by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners made in 1878.'^ The old school building bears the inscription 'Donum 1692.' BRETHERTON Bretherton, 1242 and ; Brothcrton, the principal variant, occurs 1292'^ ; Bertherton, 1292. Thorp, 1212. The present Bretherton includes also the ancient Thorp, the position of which appears to have left no trace. The south-west half of the township, known as the Ecs, is below the 25-ft. level, the village being situated about the centre of the township, where the ground begins to rise a little. Bank Hall is on a slight elevation to the , near the Douglas, the old course of which river forms the boundary on that side. The new and straighter coune lies within the boundary. The area is 2,436^ acres,'
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