Summary
This booklet explores the history of the Manor of Bradshaw, a rural area in south-east Turton. The story takes us from the times of the Manor House and its Lords through to the Industrial Revolution with textile bleaching, coal mining and quarrying. Also covered are details of the water powered cornmill and twenty or so farms spread over the upper reaches of the township. The book is well illustrated with about eighty photographs and maps.Details
| Publication Number | 35 |
| Title | The Bradshaw Estate 1542 - 1919 |
| Author | J J Francis |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Number of Pages | 104 |
| ISBN Number | 9781904974352 |
| Amazon ASIN | 190497435X (view on Amazon) |
| Price & Availability | See publications list |
Cover Photo
Contents
1. The Bradshaw Families2. Estate Leases, Rents, Tithes and Boons
3. Mineral Rights
4. Bradshaw Hall and Demesne
5. The Corn Mill
6. Tenements at Bradshaw Chapel
7. Bridge End
8. Rigbys
9. Meadow Barn
10. Brookbottom
11. Cromptons
12. Hollins
13. Higher Barn
14. Harry Fold
15. Arthurs
16. Brown Barn
17. Waterfold
18. Walsh Fold
19. Birches
20. Toye
21. Bradshaw Head
22. Eccles Wives
23. Baxters
24. Butchers
25. Lower Nuttalls
26. Higher Nuttalls
27. Baxter Fields & Bradshaw Fields
28. Old Neds
29. Properties in Tottington
Surnames Included
Ainsworth, Altcroft, Appleton, Ashton, Ashurst, Atherton, Bancroft, Barcroft, Barton, Baxter, Belasyse, Bellairs, Berks, Bernard, Bradshaw, Bridge, Bromley, Brooks, Buckley, Butterworth, Calderbank, Chantler, Chetham, Cort, Duxbury, Eccles, Entwistle, Fairclough, Farnworth, Greenhalgh, Hamer, Hardcastle, Hardman, Hartley, Haslam, Haworth, Heywood, Hickson, Hilton, Holding, Holt, Horrocks, Isherwood, Jackson, Jenkinson, Johnson, Kay, Kenyon, Kershaw, Knowles, Leach, Legh, Leicester, Lever, Lindsay, Lomax, Lowe, Makinson, Merrills, Morris, Nightingale, Nuttall, Ormerod, Orrell, Parker, Partington, Paton, Pendlebury, Pilkington, Pilling, Pimlott, Platt, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Ramsden, Ramwell, Rawsthorne, Rigby, Riley, Rothwell, Rushton, Ryle, Salisbury, Scholes, Scowcroft, Settle, Sharples, Shaw, Shipperbottom, Slater, Smith, Stanley, Starkie, Street, Tale, Tebay, Thomasson, Thornley, Thwaites, Thweat, Tong, Townley, Walker, Wallworth, Walsh, Warburton, Welch, White, Whitley, Willis, Wood, Wright, Wrigley
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| Word Cloud of Surnames Referenced in Booklet |
