. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED TARLETON TARLETON Tharilton, 1246; Tarleton usually. This township was separated from Croston in 1821, and made an independent parish by Act of Parlia- ment.' The River Douglas or Asland, as it is here called, flowing north to the Ribble, forms the eastern boundary for some 3 miles. The low-lying level surface stretches west for about the same distance to reach the borders of what was Martin Mere, now drained. A stretch of slightly higher land lies all along the river bank, and about the centre of it is the vi
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED TARLETON TARLETON Tharilton, 1246; Tarleton usually. This township was separated from Croston in 1821, and made an independent parish by Act of Parlia- ment.' The River Douglas or Asland, as it is here called, flowing north to the Ribble, forms the eastern boundary for some 3 miles. The low-lying level surface stretches west for about the same distance to reach the borders of what was Martin Mere, now drained. A stretch of slightly higher land lies all along the river bank, and about the centre of it is the village of Tarleton ; at the south end is the hamlet of Sollom. On another slightly elevated piece of land on the west is the hamlet of Holmes, with Mere Brow to the south. A large part of the area is moss-land—Tarleton Moss on the north and Sollom Moss on the south. The area is 5,534^ acres,' and the population in 1901 was 1,800. The principal road is that running north from Rufford parallel with the river and along the higher land described. To the south of the village it turns to the east—the northward continuation being known as Hesketh Lane — and crosses the Douglas by a bridge, near Bank Hall in Bretherton, and so goes on to Preston. A western branch. Black- gate Lane, leads from the village to Mere Erow and Crossens. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal branch goes north near the Douglas, which stream it joins to the north of the village. The Ram's Head Inn, a long, low, yellow-washed group of buildings at the south end of the village, was a house of some im- portance in the coaching days, and, though much modernized, still presents a somewhat picturesque appearance. Over the door is the inscription ' H. L. 1640,' and in one of the out-buildings facing the road is a stone with the initials 'H. L.' and the date 1714. Inscribed on a stone on the former residence of the curate is: 'This Hous was built 1726 for the Curate of Tarleton with Mrs. Margaret Thomp- fon's Legacy.
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