More information : [SD 8188 3405] IGHTENHILL MANOR HOUSE (Site of) [GT] (1) Ightenhill Park. "The first occurence of the name Ightenhill appears to be in a charter by John de Lacy to Monk Breston Priory dated at this place in 1238.... After the death of Henry de Lacy in 1311 it was recorded that the capital messuage in Ightenhill was of no value beyond reprises: the park with moss and herbage was valued at 40s;.... The park was not granted as a copyhold tenement by the Commissioners of 1507, but the herbage in that year was demised to Robert Rishton for a term of 21 years... Rishton in 1518-19 surrendered his lease to Sir John Towneley to whom in 1524 the Crown granted a lease of the park in fee farm at a rent of #30.... At Sir John's instance a view of the state of the manor-house was on 16 July 1522 made by twelve copyholders, their report being enrolled on the hallmote as follows:- 'At the day of taking this inquest the great hall and the timber of the manor-house of Ightenhill are in ruins and fallen to the ground, a great part carried away and not to be found there. The great chamber at the western end of the hall is in like state; the kitchen, butler's house, and pantry are destroyed and no part to be found, nor are any timbers or slate stones now left. The oven house and great barn are in like state. The long chamber at the western end of the hall has fallen down and no part of it remains. Only the park-keeper's house remains standing with timber & slate stones but the doors and windows have been taken away, and it is like to fall through lack of repair. The chapel there and the stable also remain in like state. John Towneley has not been found guilty of the removal or destruction of any timber or stone of the said houses.'... The circumstances of the transfer of the lease to the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe are not known but in 1593 Sir Richard Shuttleworth granted a lease of lands in the park.... The cause of the transfer was probably connected with the recusancy of the former lessee. In 1597 a lease in remainder of the park and two miles was granted to Sir Richard for a term of forty-one years..... .....No part of the walls [of Ightenhill manor House] is standing but in 1894 the foundations of the keep could easily be traced. The old draw well had then been only recently covered up...." (2) The deer park of Ightenhill which was attached to the Forest of Pendlewas disparked and granted on lease in 10th Henry VIII. (3) Surveyed 1:2500 (4)
SD 818 340. Ightenhill Manor (site of). Scheduled No LA/123. (5)
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