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From: "Audrey Barrett" <>
Subject: Re: Where is Astley Hall... apologies
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:22:45 +0100


Apologies. All instances of 'Ashley Hall' in my previous posting should of
course read 'Astley Hall'. I must have been a little too enthusiastic with
my spelling checker. :-0

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Audrey Barrett <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> >In article <>, Val
> <
> >.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>
> >>Does anyone know where Ashley Hall is? or where it may have been. I'm
> >>trying to find out about an Earl of Ashley with very little success.
> >>Val
>
>
> >.....and Eve McLaughlin <> insists...
> >Neither will you - no such animal found.
> <BIG SNIP>
>
> However the guide to the holdings of Lancashire CRO gives several
> references to Ashley Hall and various families connected with it.
>
> pages 274/5.
>
> Tatton of Cuerden: From the early years of the 14th century the
> Cuerden estate was in the ownership of the Charnocks until sold to the
> Langtons, barons of Newton-in-Makerfield, with whom it remained until
> another sale about 1605 to Henry Banastre of Bank in Bretherton. From
> then it went, by the marriage of a co-heiress, to Robert Parker of
> Extwistle. Another marriage brought in the Brooke properties of Charnock
> Richard, Ashley in Chorley, etc. In 1906 the estates were bequeathed by
> Thomas Townley-Parker to his nephew R. A. Tatton......
>
> Family papers:..... Robert Charnock of Ashley 1615
>
> Ashley Hall inventories c1830, 1858. Papers concerning sale of Yorkshire
> estates 1817
>
> Accounts: Bills for building Ashley Hall lodges 1772
>
> page 324
>
> The Rev W Porteus (DDX/985) Notes on Charnock family; deeds of Standish,
> Gillibrand and Fazackerly families 18th to 20th c; Chorley plans 1734,
> 1769; Ashley Hall estate plan 1822
> page 237
> Accounts:..... Ashley Hall estate accounts 1849-88
>
> Also indexed under Ashley Manor there are the following deposited
> records...
>
> page 328
>
> Taylor Kirkham and Mainprice (DDHm) Ashley manor court rolls 1564, 1569,
> 1571, 1572, 1608, 1623, 1654, 1744-46; Ashley Bedford and Tyldesley
> deeds 1385, 1522-1891
>
>
> In "The Lancashire Countrygoer", Jessica Lofthouse 1962 page 182
> says in her own inimitable, enthusiastic way..
>
> "Too often we come upon 'site of' on Yarrow banks. The Duxbury
> Standishes lived for generations in valley and woodlands; a son sailed
> to America in the Mayflower and helped to put the new colony on a firm
> footing; he was Miles Standish. The Gillibrands have gone too and the
> family of Park Hall - but Ashley Hall remains, safe in the care of
> Chorley's town fathers.
> A Park is the next best thing when the country is too far away, think
> the townsfolk of Chorley promenading the long drive and roaming the
> paths of the rivulet at Ashley Hall. The loveliest surprise as we emerge
> from the paths or drive is the sight of the Hall, its splendid 17th
> century facade reflected in the ornamental lake; when the evening sun
> winks in its windows it glows like a casket of jewels. Which is what it
> is; inside are many treasures, Tudor carvings, ornate plaster ceilings
> and a superb shovelboard table in the Long Gallery among them."
> --
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