More information : [SD 90591527] Buckley Hall [TI] (1)
"Buckley gave its name to a family at a very early date. In the
12thc. there was a Geoffrey de Bucklegh dean of Whalley...
Thomas Buckley .... died 17th August 1588 .... He held in fee
the Manor of Buckley with twenty houses and cottages and the
demsene lands. The manor was held of Sir John Byron, Knight of
Ryton' .....
In 1626 Buckley was described as a faire mansion house called
Buckley Hall, with a water corne mill etc. with farm tenements
called Ringlosse, fairly well worked' (a)....
The old hall at Buckley (which stood behind the present house)
is now entirely gone. At one end of the old hall was a small
building supposed to have been used as a chapel ...." (2)
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