OneGuyFromBarlick

This confirms the approx. position of Hemp Butts, the enumerator had done the route of the 1881 census in reverse.

Hemp Butts comes after the Railway Inn and before Wellhouse Square As you mentioned earlier Wendy this is the route the enumerator took: Folio 12 page 18 Railway Inn Folio 13 page 19 Hemp Butts (11 houses) Folio 14 page 21 Hemp Butts Gardens (12 houses) Folio 15 page 23 Wellhouse Square (34 houses)...

Stanley wrote:By 1796 the canal was fully open to traffic.

Extract from Leeds & Liverpool Canal web site:-

"..and when it opened throughout, in 1816".

Had a few boyfriends lived on The Ranch.

Stanley wrote:t is of course difficult to say whether this brewing was for domestic consumption or for sale

Will of Christopher Varley:-
"...Christopher Vareley of Salterforth Lane Head in the p'rish of Barnoldswick in the County of Yorke alehouskeeper..."

Wendy - any progress on this project?

Puzzling on Whyperion's (note apostrophe) early morning misspelling of the word grammAr

BIRTWHISTLE SNR RES ATT October 30

Christian name?

THE WILL OF CHRISTOPHER VARLEY (1678)

"Let it be remembered this nynth day of februarii Anno Dni 1678 that I
Christopher Vareley of Salterforth Lane Head in the p'rish of
Barnoldswick in the County of Yorke alehouskeeper ..."

As a lady who likes her pubs I am intrigued where the information re The Holy Lamb Inn and The Plough Inn came from. Old trade directories/ voting lists/ deeds and folklore from the old generation of Salterforth who's grandparents and great grandaprents were around at the time and passed down the k...

As a lady who likes her pubs I am intrigued where the information re The Holy Lamb Inn and The Plough Inn came from.

The guide stone was discovered in a garden in an old farm house near Newchurch-in-Pendle in April 2000. Local historian Nick Livsey of Klondyke restored and installed it. The prefix MUS in the name Musghyll can mean either MICE or MOSS. SALTREFORD in the Domesday Book is not “our” Salterforth but a ...

Earby was in Thornton manor, the boundaries of Thornton manor and parish are coextensive.

THE WILL OF CHRISTOPHER VARLEY (1678) Let it be remembered this nynth day of februarii Anno Dni 1678 that I Christopher Vareley of Salterforth Lane Head in the p'rish of Barnoldswick in the County of Yorke alehouskeeper beinge sick in body but of good & perfect memory praised be God Consideringe...

This history of the inn was inserted within the menu at The Fanny Grey along with a photograph of the original building. The present day building was built in 1914 FANNY GREY HOTEL "...ye bruing vessell with other wood gear, £2-10-00." Christopher Varley of Salterforth Lane Head died in 16...

The farm was called The Dog Inn. See 1853 os map

The town lock-up was in the lower part of the cottage(now demolished) attached to the Cross Keys pub.

Badger shop -A local or itinerant dealer in dairy produce, eggs, corn, meal and malt, and later in general produce

Paupers were also called Badgers for they had to wear a badge in the form of a letter P and were encouraged to go begging to eke out their parish relief.

The map is VERY accurate to a scale of 6" to one mile, trace it and lay it over the modern day map. The third lane is shown on the Enclosure Award Plan of 1814, off Colne Road across from the turn off to Esp Lane and denoted "Ancient Lane" and shows Barnoldswick as being down Long Ing...

"...repair a road 1000 yards long and nine feet wide between Brogden and the mill." This is Gisburn Road from its junction with Brogden Lane, on to Skipton Road and then to the mill. The distance from the gable end of Mill Cottages to the boundary wall of the old gas works is nine feet. Th...

Gill church

Marriage 1828

Stephen Lee of Colne and Ann Lowcock

Original registers at Preston record office

You will find it on the 1852 ordnance survey map on Brogden Lane between Aynhams and Lidget Flat. No longer there.