Calf Hall as part of the monastic grange of Barnoldswick.

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Calf Hall as part of the monastic grange of Barnoldswick.

[Extract from ‘THE MONASTIC GRANGE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND’ By Colin Platt. (Lecturer in history at the University of Southampton.) Published by Macmillan. 1969.]

GRANGE AND MANORIAL SITES. Page 189

BARNOLDSWICK, YORKS.: SD872466.Cistercian(Kirkstall). There are minor earthworks visible in the field to the north of the present factory buildings and to the west of the town of Barnoldswick. They include a medieval boundary bank and the faint remains of a few buildings. Ridge and furrow to the cast of the modern hedge line runs over what might prove to be further more extensive remains. For some five or six years Barnoldswick was the site of the first conventual buildings of the community that later settled at Kirkstall. The monks came to Barnoldswick on the invitation of Henry de Lacy, who himself held the land from Hugh Bigod, earl of Norfolk (d. 1177). Hugh Bigod was persuaded to confirm the grant of these lands on the discovery that Henry de Lacy was not entitled to give them away (Kirkstall Coucher, pp. ix-x, 188-9). In 1276 Brother Peter was the granger at Barnoldswick. He is known to have cut off an car of a serving-boy at the grange who was caught stealing two loaves of bread (Rotuli Hundredorum, I I 12). In the last years of the same century the grange was demised for life to Peter of Chester, a wealthy provost of Beverley connected with the Lacy family. Peter died C. 1298 (Kirkstall Coucher, P. 330). It was at this period that certain valuable pasture rights of the abbey at Barnoldswick were threatened by the claim of Henry de Lacy (d. 1311), earl of Lincoln. The dispute was finally resolved in favour of the abbey by a royal mandate dated 21 August 1335 (ibid. PP. 321-39). In September 1540, following the suppression of the abbey, the manor of Barnoldswick (called 'le halle demeynes') was farmed by Richard Banester, holding this and other Kirkstall properties by an indenture granted by the late abbot and convent (PRO Min. Accts, SC6/Hen.VIII/
4590, m. 12).

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