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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