. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE £9 4J. 4W., when the hundred paid £10 lis. 8a'.' For the "county lay of 1624 the townships were arranged somewhat different!}-, in the following four quarters: I, Croston and Rufford ; 2, Tarleton, Much and Little Hoole ; 3, Mawdesley, Bispham, and H«keth-with-Becconsall ; 4, Bretherton and Ulnes Walton. Each of these quarters paid equally, contributing a total of /^^ ¥• 1^-^ "'^^" j£'°° "'^' required from the hundred.' The landowners of the undirided parish contribut- ing to the su
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE £9 4J. 4W., when the hundred paid £10 lis. 8a'.' For the "county lay of 1624 the townships were arranged somewhat different!}-, in the following four quarters: I, Croston and Rufford ; 2, Tarleton, Much and Little Hoole ; 3, Mawdesley, Bispham, and H«keth-with-Becconsall ; 4, Bretherton and Ulnes Walton. Each of these quarters paid equally, contributing a total of /^^ ¥• 1^-^ "'^^" j£'°° "'^' required from the hundred.' The landowners of the undirided parish contribut- ing to the subsidy in 1525 were Robert Hesketh, Thomas Ashton, Henry Banastre, Edward Beconsaw, Roger Dalton, Bartholomew Hesketh, Henry Charnock and William Chorley.' The history of the parish shows little of interest to record. The principal resident families were those of Ashton of Croston and Banastre of Bank. In 1533 one of the priests living near Croston, James ft. 6 . with north and ft. 6 in. chancel 41 ft. 6 in. by 14 It. b in south aisles and north vestry, nave 49 ft. by i 5 with north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower 16 ft. 3 in. square, all these measurements being internal. The tower stands almost entirely within the church, its west front projecting only 4 ft. beyond the end walls of the north and south aisles, and is open to the building on all three sides under lofty pointed arches. The oldest parts of the church other than the piscina mentioned later seem to be the east end of the chancel and the lower part of the tower, which are probably of 15th-century date, at which period the church may have been built on the present plan, and to which date some other portions of the building may belong. There was so much rebuilding and , however, in the following three centuries, of which no exact record has been kept, that it is now very difficult to assign the actual. Map of Croston Parish Harrison, had the boldness to express the general feeling of
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