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Habergham Eaves
Habergham Eaves is a civil parish in the borough of Burnley, in Lancashire, England. The parish consists of a rural area south of Burnley, and suburban areas on the outskirts of the town, including a large industrial estate in the north-west corner of the parish. Habergham is also the name of an area west of Burnley, although it is no longer within the parish. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 1,466.
The A646 Padiham to Todmorden road runs approximately along the northern boundary of the parish. Surrounding areas include the unparished areas of Burnley and Rossendale, and the parishes of Hapton, Dunnockshaw and Cliviger.
Early forms of the name include "Habringham", with the third and second elements probably from the Old English words hām, meaning home and ing in this sense meaning "of the". Its first is less certain, possibly hēah with beorg meaning high hill or mountain—perhaps the origin of Horelaw, the name of the hill on which the parish is situated—or alternatively a personal name. The addition Eaves OE efes could mean "edge of a hill". There is also part of the parish called Oaken Eaves.
Habergham Eaves township historically extended further to the north from Gawthorpe Hall in the west to Towneley Hall in the east, the River Calder generally separating it from the neighbouring townships.
Now located in an isolated position in Cross Field near the former Bull and Butcher Inn is the base of a cross, thought to be a butter cross possibly of late medieval origin.
Considered part of the Burnley Coalfield, coal may have been mined here from the mid 15th century, but certainly by early 1500s. After Richard Towneley obtained a lease from the Crown to mine at Broadhead, he launched a legal action in the Duchy Court, complaining that on 7 May 1526 a group of about eighty of the king's tenants had entered the "coal beds" here to obtain coal for themselves. This group included Hugh Habergham and another Richard Towneley from the branch of the family at Royle Hall. The tenants claimed the right to "sufficient coal for their fuel, for their necessary occupation and burning within their houses". One witness said that around 1450 two men who had a smithy in Bentley Wood searched for iron at Broadhead and found coal and began mining it. With the son of one of them later setting-up a windlass.
The Towneleys where involved in another legal battle over land rights here in 1568. Local farmers alleged that half a century before Sir John Towneley had used forged documentation to create an enclosed area that had become known as Horelaw Pasture. A Duchy Special Commission subsequently found this to have been an encroachment and confiscated the approximately 400-acre (160 ha) area, situated directly south of another enclosure called Hollin Hey. However shortly after James I came to the English throne, the land was granted to the 1st Earl of Devonshire, and before 1612 another Richard Towneley, the great-grandson of Sir John, was able to reacquire it. This made Sir John so unpopular with the local people a tradition arose that his ghost wanders the hills calling "Be warned! Lay out! Be warned! Lay out! Around Horelaw and Hollin Hey Clough".
Crown Point Road was built as part of the first attempt by a Turnpike Trust to improve the journey between Burnley and Rochdale following an Act in 1754–55. From Bacup it connected to the existing roads at the junction of Cog Lane and what is now Rossendale Road. The Burnley and Edenfield Trust built the A682—formerly the A56—Manchester Road soon after 1795, crossing the other at the former Bull and Butcher Inn where a toll bar was situated. In 1817 the Rochdale and Burnley Trust commenced work on what is now the A671 Bacup/Todmorden Road, which forms part of the modern parish boundary (along with a branch through Cliviger to Todmorden). This was connected to Crown Point Road at Windy Bank in Cliviger, before continuing to Burnley at Turf Moor, greatly reducing the older road's importance.
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Habergham Eaves
Habergham Eaves is a civil parish in the borough of Burnley, in Lancashire, England. The parish consists of a rural area south of Burnley, and suburban areas on the outskirts of the town, including a large industrial estate in the north-west corner of the parish. Habergham is also the name of an area west of Burnley, although it is no longer within the parish. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 1,466.
The A646 Padiham to Todmorden road runs approximately along the northern boundary of the parish. Surrounding areas include the unparished areas of Burnley and Rossendale, and the parishes of Hapton, Dunnockshaw and Cliviger.
Early forms of the name include "Habringham", with the third and second elements probably from the Old English words hām, meaning home and ing in this sense meaning "of the". Its first is less certain, possibly hēah with beorg meaning high hill or mountain—perhaps the origin of Horelaw, the name of the hill on which the parish is situated—or alternatively a personal name. The addition Eaves OE efes could mean "edge of a hill". There is also part of the parish called Oaken Eaves.
Habergham Eaves township historically extended further to the north from Gawthorpe Hall in the west to Towneley Hall in the east, the River Calder generally separating it from the neighbouring townships.
Now located in an isolated position in Cross Field near the former Bull and Butcher Inn is the base of a cross, thought to be a butter cross possibly of late medieval origin.
Considered part of the Burnley Coalfield, coal may have been mined here from the mid 15th century, but certainly by early 1500s. After Richard Towneley obtained a lease from the Crown to mine at Broadhead, he launched a legal action in the Duchy Court, complaining that on 7 May 1526 a group of about eighty of the king's tenants had entered the "coal beds" here to obtain coal for themselves. This group included Hugh Habergham and another Richard Towneley from the branch of the family at Royle Hall. The tenants claimed the right to "sufficient coal for their fuel, for their necessary occupation and burning within their houses". One witness said that around 1450 two men who had a smithy in Bentley Wood searched for iron at Broadhead and found coal and began mining it. With the son of one of them later setting-up a windlass.
The Towneleys where involved in another legal battle over land rights here in 1568. Local farmers alleged that half a century before Sir John Towneley had used forged documentation to create an enclosed area that had become known as Horelaw Pasture. A Duchy Special Commission subsequently found this to have been an encroachment and confiscated the approximately 400-acre (160 ha) area, situated directly south of another enclosure called Hollin Hey. However shortly after James I came to the English throne, the land was granted to the 1st Earl of Devonshire, and before 1612 another Richard Towneley, the great-grandson of Sir John, was able to reacquire it. This made Sir John so unpopular with the local people a tradition arose that his ghost wanders the hills calling "Be warned! Lay out! Be warned! Lay out! Around Horelaw and Hollin Hey Clough".
Crown Point Road was built as part of the first attempt by a Turnpike Trust to improve the journey between Burnley and Rochdale following an Act in 1754–55. From Bacup it connected to the existing roads at the junction of Cog Lane and what is now Rossendale Road. The Burnley and Edenfield Trust built the A682—formerly the A56—Manchester Road soon after 1795, crossing the other at the former Bull and Butcher Inn where a toll bar was situated. In 1817 the Rochdale and Burnley Trust commenced work on what is now the A671 Bacup/Todmorden Road, which forms part of the modern parish boundary (along with a branch through Cliviger to Todmorden). This was connected to Crown Point Road at Windy Bank in Cliviger, before continuing to Burnley at Turf Moor, greatly reducing the older road's importance.
