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Penistone Conservation Area Heritage Statement
(a) The historical context is enclosed as an appendix to this report.
(b) The designated Conservation Area boundary touches the H25 site at the extreme eastern boundary with mainly Victorian or later domestic property along the Bridge Street entrance to the town. The Penistone Conservation Area generally has no visual relationship with the site for the following reasons:
1. It is elevated considerably above Bridge Street and cannot be seen from the highway by reason of elevations and existing boundary planting (which remains outside the proposed development area)
2. The former railway bridge to the above highway effectively separates the site from the bulk of the town in visual terms.
3. All structures and buildings of interest in Penistone including the Church are sited away from H25.
4. Talbot Road is mainly developed with new housing to the southern boundary and a small number of older cottages and commercial units of minor interest.
The site will be expected to deliver a modem housing scheme when developed and opportunities should be taken to introduce interesting properties driven by the challenging topography of part of the site. It will be constmcted in appropriate materials for what is a mainly stone built environment and add new quiity and interest to the historic town of Penistone which has always responded to challenge and opportunity over many years.
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0 attorney, keeper of his land and guardian •3 .=!• SHiSifSiHisgS?:-Don towards Penisale and all things within Penisale except the bovate of John r:‘-> Page one de Stainborojgh. also three bovates there of the land whion Bobert de Bi.tclitt held of the grantors father in Langsett witii other parcels and common of pasture M- in Langsett and Swindon and in his woods except in Hordron. ;i A further charter dated January 1241 records that Juliana, daughter of Peter de Birthwaite, conveyed the manor of Langsett, Penisale and Swindon with the demesnes, to Walter de Ludham, a relative of Godfrey de Ludham, vicar or r ■ Penistone. later Dean of York and subsequently Archbishop. In common with manv of the Cistercian abbeys of.Byland and Rievaulx the systems of grange economy was set up at Suniidcliff in the common pasture of Langsett. Between • L. S 3> 1208-1211. Peter de Birthwaite granted to the monks of Kirkstead four novates ■7^ ^4’- c: .. ■■wy of land in Penisale except three bovates which they held of the grantors or - lp-% ■ PTC" shillings yearly. In 1252 the abbey of .Kirkstead held the entire V V v.- in free^aL perpetual alms and at the same time acquired extensive ^ ; ■ Ecclesfield and Handaworth. In addition to their grange at Penisale, they ^ .4" It* a wide "tretS of moorland for sheep grazing; for wool was a profitable commodity - V—!.' 9
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'■ -‘l '.■ • ,- -■:.•• :, = • ‘ ■:•'>•■• ■ ft-, Wi' - -' /• ■•; .. -V. '...'ij GROUND PLAN OF THE OLD ROSE <- •' -i AND '‘V\ i:'- PREMISES PENISTONE AS IN M- The township of Thurlstone possessed for many years a larger population ^ (1750 -1860) than Penistone, and had a number of inns. The most important of these were the Homely House, Last Shift, and Brass Bapyer, all of which are no more, but , 7 the Crystal Palace, built by Thomas Marsh, the Commercial and the Black Bull, - ANK£R OR CORKER are still in existence. On the road across the Pennines to Woodhead stood the I. YARD. CROPT. New Inn built in 1827 by George Heward. However, the landlord had the ____ misfortune to possess a hare lip and it is believed that the inn became known 5 a, CHAISE & IMPLEMENT ROOM. a as the Slooch-which was later corrupted to Flouck, and it bears this name at the D IHN GARO&N And ROOWl OVER. -present day. X r- U 3. these Places & messuage o u Another important inn was the Miller's Arms, situated on the Yorkshire WAf-na VrdAflA&C VICARAOe OCCUPIED BY MR.HADFIELO. side of the bridge at Saltersbrook. This was a meeting place for carters from CHURCH la. I 4. CflAlSE HOUSE ETC, Q STRAW w ground Cheshire bringing salt to exchange for wool. Later, it was the meeting place .J O for the Shepherd’s Society, which met annually to allocate all stray lambs and kl YARD. -1 Yard. 5. MISTAU FOR MARKET CATTLE sheep to their rightful owners. ir 3 ta. a. G Piggeries. u S 5 b 9 The old road past Lady Cross contains ruins of what may have been alehouses 7 m \ 4 7 STABLE FOR TRAVELLERS or inns. This road was used by merchant'^ and traders on their way to Uotherham YOtA market, then a mpre important place than Sheffield. In Thurlstone stood Bank- MORSES. house now no longer an inn, serving the old pack horse road over Hartcliff by ^ e S. UAtTHE. the old cottages. The old Hotherham-Penistone sign post still stands. This rout(^ avoided a journey through Penistone by passing Doubting and Mosley farms, : fO 9. Long stable for coach continuing to the cross roads and Cranbery farm which was formerly an inn, ^ 17 CATTLE ard and so along to Rotherham. By far the jnost interesting all the inns was the Y and POSTING HORSES WITH I Angel Inn at Ingbirchworth, now known as Grange Farm. It was built by the MARKET CHAMBER OVER. Micklethwaite family in 1624 whose name and sun dial can still be seen over the 10 COAL fo ASH PLACES. door. Originally it served the pack horse traffic but with the advent of wheeled IE 14 tn transport it became a coaching house for the Sheffield-Halifax coach. Pump 11. BEmontis stanves house IS IS IS 12. MR. DRANSFIELD'S This house was often visited by Adam Eyre, the diarist who lived at Hazle- 2t n Eiriil tfl head Hall in the seventeenth, century. One gathers from his diary, however, that WlLCOCliS JEAUMONTS Id 19 E SOLICITORS OFFICE, his favourite hostelry was at Catshaw andl he also visited Swinden Walls off the PROPERTY 5 PfloPERTT IS O 29 13. WASH HOUSE ETC. Boardhill road. It was j^robably at this inn that Eyre called, after attending 26 20 ;u 3 <33 a football match between Penistone and Thurlstone when the crowds were so large"^ . DAIRY, j;osTPAm___ ^ ______•______eS^CL^^fi------that it was impossible to play the match. u>tvpesT IS. BREAD HOUSE. The increase in population which led to a growth in industry and a demand TO MIDHOPE IG. BOOT HOUSE. for more food called for better transport facilities. Hence the growth of the MARKET street Turnpike Trusts, which were private companies who built and maintained sections y n. stables for farm horses,
of road by charging tolls from those wliu used them. In 1777 an Act was passed ? for constructing the turnpike from Sheffield to Penistone and Halifax which was 19. SCULLERY. E5. CATTLE DEALERS ROOM. enlarged in 1793, 1796 and 1797. At a town meeting on 11th April, 1783, the sum 19. KITCHEN. of £100 was given towards improving the oomniunicaLion between Green Lane and 5 2G. COMMERCIAL ROOM. Penictone Turnpike it the owners of the property in the neighbourhood were EO. market room. 27. PIGGERIES. prepared to contribute the balance of the money required. This appears to have been undertaken, for in 1783.the town w'as credited with £187 Os. 8d. as its share of Ei. FILLING BAR. E8, DAIRY, the profit and interest on the Penistone Turnpike. The Saltersbrook turnpike was very profitable, for in 1795 no less than £1,800 was taken at Boardhill in tolls. ^ I EE. SITTING 6AR. 29. SHOP OCCUPIED BY JOHN HARSDEN, The Doncaster to Saltersbrook turnpike passed through Hoylandswaine and ES.. PASSAGE 30. COVERED ARCHWAV. . 7 Thurlstone, while the Sheffield to Halifax turnpike passed through Wortley and fiuy 1 ; a4. PANTRY 31. JOHN PEHIULS COTTAGE, Penistone. There were five toll gates between Sheffield and Penistone, with a THOS. wood's cottage,’ further three in Penistone at Bridge End, Church Hill and Penistone Green, The 32. coming of the railways led to a decline in road transport and in 1901 the Doncaster* .V Saltersbrook turnpike property was sold by auction,, including the toll bar houses.
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rm^mirnM■ t used Penistone a-calling place were as follows "»ii| 0 »■ to Londop called weekly ; v v Fleece frpnv Halifax to Sheffield on three days eadi week. M ■ ■ ;: ...... ,.._lMm Ar jXX;/ e^h week, from Sheffield via Penistohe. Hudders Wgr fTto Tiust^s ^ae^ital of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury’2 iSStf aa •.. . ,u •■ , r*: ^ [ ^ X.: Halifax,: Brough and Penrith to Carlisle. ^ bn'tbr^uTTK Property in Pemstone pay to the officiating Minister ,::, i;.| -;V> ■ ' ■..-'4 tb„ p1 in May the sum of 6/ad, to be by him, distributed amongst ' iw ' ;V V.:-,.-- Sheffield to Penistone, Joseph Gamble AD^T' P^y““‘ dueht Easter and was fixed upon the Rectory in = )’ |||f: twf ^ headman’s wagon. In addition to these, . -fi, there was a coach between Barnsley and Manchester. -*5 i The construction of Mortimer Road is interesting to record in detail. i2iirf.fe::: I, MORTIMER ROAD There were always officials who from time to time attempted to divert a ■ charity into their own pockets. The Terrier *of 1829 records a list of charities lost X,c: The first record of this road is an Act probably passed in 1771 "for in this manner by the parish. BridKe^fnTthJ^'^^^w'"® Penistone Bridge tO Grindleford : ■ i bJ dfp’t^^h. ■a '^^ severally leading from Bamford Wood Gate over Yorkshire Woti? ^ ^ Thornhill Moor to or near the eighth milestone on f Donations Lost by the Parish of Peniston th^sage Moor and to the village of Derwent in the County of Derby E^inford, died insolvent Fifty shillings given by Mr. John Mitchell of Nether Denby and lodged in m 1807. He was of Caldwell Hall, Derby, a son of Crom^l^eU Mortimer who at the hands of Robert Booth of Denby for which he was to pay to the use of the Poor Peak ^Sth^thp^r^^n^^^ Society. Mortimer’s idea was to’link the of Denby quarter yearly at St. James Tide. Four shillings and there was a Bond for toRs In n68 L r districts and reap profit from the road I It m the hands of Richard Micklethwaite of Ingbirchworth AD 1640. ^lls. In 1768 he mortgaged his Bamford Estate for £8000 and perhaps the monev the's^amford Estate^ road (which he never finished). Before 1807%e had sold And there is in the hands of John Micklethwaite of Ingbirchworth fof Upper Si'Jnlllf™ t w n oi Mathorn. Three pounds given by John . of ParLment fofshfew^bw Member Bilclyffe of Water Hall Mill left to the Poor of the Parish of Penistone. And they are to pay to the Poor of the said Parish yearly on St. Thomas Dav Bardike, Agden Bridge, and five shillings. 1640. Cutthroat EWdne X ld‘*nT Piece it turned past Moscar House Farm to • i 1 Bridge north of the present bridge) along the line of I I j Overseers of the Poor with this money bought a cow in the year 1653 and the present pylons and across what was the Croft opposite Lady Bowe? Inn thence I- lodged her in the custody of William Ibbotson of Hoylandswaine and he agreed la Lady Bower Bridge to Yorkshire Bridge and so on to Thorndike. I to pay to the Overseers yearly upon every Michaelmas Day, five shillings. Edge^auTth?“*etvbS’''‘'"‘?''’f **'*’ '■P®'' Bamford » Par^ uulr Itauafe Edge Overstoues I THE PARISH REGISTERS 1824 S^'Mrf NeTdi>at'’‘of“n Village was a private road, made about These are a most valuable .senes for they give many details of life in Penistone and its parish between the years 1643 and the present day. They have not alway.s authorftiea Hall, and was later taken over by the been maintained with the care that ought to be given to.such documents so that the earlj register is badly torn and the transcripts made from it by some unknown shire Sge''lu^°nnd?“B X "f ^om near ,the York- scribe are not so perfect as they should be. These defects apart from the records • Tarvi-s ri n •? Bamford Edge to head of Priddock Clough: then across i reveal that between 1644 and 1760 the average number of baptisms ranged from 23 Moscar Crost ““ “ordron Edge and went to \A ^ majority being in the low forties but a poor year like 1722 only yielded 22 baptisms. The increase in population after 1760 is marked by a rapid Further details are found in the Ronkolny arcliivcs as follows: — increase in births so that baptisms rise from 57 to 85 by 1795 and after that date the rate of increase is rapid. twn was made from beyond Moscar to the Bardike two Bridges over Stnndes Clough and another over Agden Water. MarriiigeB alao reflect the number of births. Only rarely between 1643 and 1747 do they run into double figures. Frequently three, seven, five or nine are the totals the AmoTf.flf nf one hundred loads of stones were lead from a! j a ? ^ Stones to the new Turnpike at Agden for road coverc? “ r in many jears. Like baptisms the marriage rate increased rapidly after 17^, ^ attended but found nothing but an old. lead pipe.” ' ^ reflect the length of life in the parish. These are fairly constant ••i 1701 each year although disease may have accounted for the SO burials in Page seven mgs the death rate does not increase after 1760 except for two drastic years of 1792 ';‘s with 57 and 1794 with 63 but remains steady at about 40 per annum. 1- i -,- •'
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r-‘ ■A- A Foot Bridge at Softley o%'er the Don. Dunford Bridge near Windleden over Don. Carlcoates Bents Bridge over Sledbrook. and touch sought after by Flemish and Italian merchants. On this moor they '•*; Hazlehead Bridge over the Don. built a sheepfold and the hamlet of Sheephouse stands on this site near Mortimer /—• ■ i" ‘ Shore Hall Bridge over the Don. Road. A Gratuity of £10 in 1816. Thurlstone Bridge over the Don. In 1290 EUas_de Midhope obtained a charter of free varren and a grant of $ A gratuity of £25, 27th April, 1767. /« a market on the eve and morrow of St. Barnabas day, with all privileges belonging '■ to a market and fair. There was an old yew tree at Aldermanshead near the river Oxspring Township under which was held the manorial court for Penisale. The market and fair were Now Biidge over the Don near Oxspring. held round the tree. After the death of Elias de Midhope the manor passed, together with Bolsterstone, to the Dukes of Norfolk in whose possession it remains. Denby Township Denby Bridge over the Dern near Denby Mill. INNS AND TRANSPORT Public road and highways of Penistone and District as set down by Com missioner “'Thomas Gee” July, 1811,. From early times the English inn has provided refreshment for travellers Thurlstone Road. Thirty feet wide running from Langsett Turnpike to Ful- along the tortuous roads of the countryside, especially in days when journeys were shaw Cross over Fulshaw Common. slow and transport primitive. Their rise and fall have been accompanied by Midhope Road. Thirty feet wide running from "Greyhound stone” s.e., to changes in methods of living, the coming of the railways and the private motorist. the Langsett Turnpike, crossing the Rotherham Road. Due to objections made this road was discontinued on the order of the above Commissioner and James The oldest inn in Penistone is the ‘ White i/art,’ built in 1377 and having Cockshutt; Esq., -J.P. as its sign the badge of King Richard H. At a very early date it became con nected with the grammar school for in a Charity Commission enquiry into ‘the STAR CHAMBER CASE, December, 1524 revenues of the school in 1604, the croft of John Lcadbeater of the White Hart paid .3d. per annum to the schoolmaster. Opposite was the Hlar.h Swan, an old \ Henry VII. had created Star Chamber as a committee of the Privy Council hc-use which was closed in 1862, when Penistone liridi/e was rebuilt in 1866. The in order to deal with over-mighty subjects who, during the disorders of the fifteenth ‘Old Crown’ is the second inn to be built on the site from local bricks. In St. century, had assumed power in their own locality so that the ordinary citizen Mary’s Street stood the old Commercial Inn which together with the Railway Jnn received no justice as the local juries were intimidated into giving favourable has disappeared. The Wentworth Arms replaced the latter wlien the site of the decisions to the local magnate. In 1487, Star Chamber, so named after the room railway station was moved. in which the court sat at Westminster, began to operate to restore the authority of the crown throughout the country. Penistone had at least one case before the Part of the Wordsworth Cloth Hall was converted into the White Bear in court in 1524, concerning the murder of Robert Moxon of Thurlstone. 1861, but it closed in the 1920’s and was converted into the British Legion Club, ^ \ An eighteenth century coffee house known as Horn’s Coffee House and. Tavern f The matter arose over the grazing rights of Thurlstone people upon the moors occupied the site of Marsden’s butcher’s shop. The Spread Eagle in Market { leading to Holmfirth, for there appears to have been some dispute between those of Holmfirth and Thurlstone that trespass had taken place. Sir Richard Tempest Street was owned by William Henry Fieldsend in 1862, who combined the occupa ■! tion of landlord with that of tailor. The cattle market was held in the street of Sandal Castle had sent his servants to Holmfirth to deal with the “rebellious’ outside until 1910 and the inn catered for the needs of farmers, drovers and people of Thurlstone as represented by their cowherd. He received such ill treat corn merchants. Another landlord who combined two crafts was George Brown 3 ment that he died shortly afterwards, and at the inquest, Tempest had/ terrified of the Old Rose and Crown, rwho made as much as £50 a day on fair days and the jury into passing a verdict of hatural causes. The leading men of thef village owned the Green Moor stone quarries. petitioned the crown for the matter to be heard in Star Chamber and so we possess the depositions of the witnesses. Space does not allow all the evidence to The building of the railway brought an influx of labourers into the town s be recorded in detail, but the essential details have all been preserved. and four inns and three beerhouses were opened to cater for their needs. Just over a century ago there were no houses between Penistona Church and Kirkwood farm Page eleven but with the building of the steel works in 1862 an inn was needed, so the [ 7 gueew was built, to be followed at a later date by the Britannia. Down Sheephouse ■I Hill stood the Old Rose and Crown, now a farmhouse, which was a coaching house until 1873 for the coaches between Penistone and Hope, which followed not ■ i i' the present route but went via Hollins Lane, now sadly overgrown: and neglected. mm, a .- rt The Rose and Crown was a coaching house with an extensive yard and stabling* ., .f: • "■ •%, • . V'B-.'' The present building erected in 1869 occupies a slightly different site from the VV- previous one, which completely blocked tlier junction of Shrewsbury Road and 4, Market Street. The coaches left Penistone by way of Market Street and i. Green or by Church Hill and then crossed over the.present memorial ..MT.^ r ■''■iiV iL'iiiiiiii ■ III m: ^football-ground to Green Road. •• i-''' *,«guw!i»wswii gw
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'.T or township in the days before any accurate cartography was possible or' eveii WiPpwfiiiiM.,j- contemplated. These were carefully inspected during the Rogationtide procession - ;■ s
: Mil-'' and boys were often caned at each important point so that they would remember i ,• the place and site of the boundary stones. One of these is in the wall of a field L^’ I" ""■ ■' «ipi f.£Ki along the road from Hartcliff to Bella Vista and has the figure of a greyhound-**^ ,ff fairJ upon it. This stone is mentioned in the survey of the old boundaries of Langsett and Thurlstone in 1695 but the present boundaries are several yards away. It is Measurements of roads through the Pari^ of Penietone from the Pat^ Hoi'ae^^ > . .£ also mentioned in the perambulations of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and may Inn in Huddersfield to the Kings Head in Sheffield, 1 July, 1829 by George Calvert: ■■■ .* £’ have marked the boundary of the Lordship of Hallamshire. Thomas, Lord wm*'''" S. Furnival, paid annually to the king on the feast of St. John the Baptist two •i' :' •- .'■ ■ m.qr.yds. m.qr.yds. ■a ' .E'-' £.1 !t , To New Mill...... 6.0.132 6.0.132 white greyhounds as quit for this lordship. The letters of M.W. P. on the stone To Cross Pipes ...... 2.1.352 8.2. 44 may also indicate the boundary of the estates of Lord Melbourne and William i. •‘ . ■'. To Penistone...... 4.1.220 12.3.264 Payne. To Wortley ...... 4.2.418 17.2.242 The Standing Stone which is still marked on ordnance survey maps had ten 1. marks upon it. William Marsh demolished the origipal between 1703 and 1753 To Sheffield ...... 8.3.330 26.2.132 .t and by the new road by hut John Hatfield of Bullhouse compelled him to replace this and mark on, so far Ingbirchworth and Almondbury 26.2.005 as he could remember, the original marks. This stone was the old boundary of From Doncaster to Manchester p'iveral small communities. Lady Cross near Boardhill, Hartcliff Cross or Penistone Cross stand in a field between Brockholes and Hartcliff Lane which m.qr.yds. m.qr.yds. was formerly Thurlstone Common. Catshaw Cross is in the wall on the south To Darfield 10.0.0 10.0.0 side of Lee Lane at Gatshaw farm. The Penisale Cross was erected by Richard To Barnsley ... 5.2.0 15.2.0 Lovetot C.U34 in a field on the left-hand side of the road to Hartcliff, on the ^ To Penistone 7.2.0 23.0.0 west of the town. To Thurlston 1.0.0 24.0.0 Inside the churchyard can be seen the base of a cross of good design and now To Salterbi'ook 7.0.0 31.0.0 used as a base for the flagpole. This formerly stood outside the churchyard on To Tintwistle 7.1.0 38.1.0 the site of the present War Memorial and is all that remains of the old market To Mottram ... 2.3.0 41.0.0 cross. Beneath the surface and near to the west door of the church is the stem of To Staley Bridge 1.2.0 4.5.3.0 an ancient cross with a peculiar base which appears to have formed support for^ To Manchester 6.2.0 52.1.0 two cross shafts. It is rudely inscribed with characters suggestive of the Anglo- The Parish Terrier of 1829 gives the following details: — Danish work. These are all that remain of the many ancient boundary marks. County Bridges connected with Penistone Pcurish:— A valuable Terrier in Penistone Church dated 1829 records details of the Saltersbrook Bridge over the Etherrow supported by Cheshire and West roada in the Penistone district and also the distances between places served. Riding A valuable Terrier in Penistone Church dated 1829 records details of the roada Miln House Bridge o^er the Don, in the Penistone district and also the distance between places served. Middop Bridge over the Porter, ch. 1 yds. Scout Bridge over the Scout Brook, Penistone Lane ... 21 50 473 Thurgoland Bridge over the Don, 5 Bridge end Lane 18 50 507 I Sheffield Lane ... 72 75 16004 Peniston Parish:— Mortimer Road ... 110 00 2420 Peniston Bridge over the Don. A Gratuity of ??? HartcIifF Road ... 100 50 2211 Whilley or Oxspring Bridge over the Don. A gratuity of £10 in 1706-7. ! Brockholes Road 43 75 9624 Cubley Road ... 52 25 11494 Peniston Parish and Wortley L^dship:—
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■■ ■'&# i 4 ^ -i :1 V s: ... :s ■ . 5i‘ ; PENISTONE -mmm. and district. if: h , ■ •• G- .1 vA'- ■ N 's :h’ \ bAKIlA ^0. I ' n % UPPER y’ DENBY oCaTCi 4th December. School swept, but not dusted. INS MSHkCY xeus fiurnxf'M « UOH i4th. December. Boys played Thurlstone School and won by four goals to *^aATe s none. < PAS BSOAD LAN / ClAK r / 1878. 7th January. No fire in school this morning, very wet and cold. fiiUtOM (aUlfrHUWTt BAOO OAK HALL woee Mrs. Windle states that she is not paid to make fires and does not intend doing so. sMYD s«i /c iSiLL t««i5 18th March, School unusually clean, owing ho doubt to the fact that that 1 SUKTHWAJTH N. A^ClA6MaoA ELWHiaaT Vicar has returned to Penistone and may call oftener. ING CH ;TH J 0AM \ ,4 CA'HKILL Sometimes references are made to the existence of acute poverty, arising CARS LAMB fO >T ------sj/h •I hou&l from the slump in trade in the latter part of the last century. KlOPlCU bU«tB Bottom 1892. November 25th. Thurlsione School. There has been much distress in OAT lt.L HOUSt the place recently, owing to lack of work ali the steel wox’ks. ITAL HALL The children (over eighty) were supplied with free dinners on Tuesday and WtITHOAPe'y, to-day they seemed greatly to relish their meals. IklYD fi£l r « RCS. Roy Si December 9th. The free dinners have been discontinued for the present, the HOYL AINE 'TfSlLLWOUSt’’*'^ works being somewhat better. nO
1893. November 10th. 85 of the children were given a good dinner (apple Roto HIbHl Mooa (^o'th' HI GHLt ftOYO, pudding) on Wednesday, and 100 had a free tea on Friday. PAAm town, V L 1895. January 25th. There is very little work to be had and the di.stress WEST Pit KILL ‘ in the village is very great. Houai M & February 1st. Compelled to close the school this afternoon on account of KI6N N WHiTC^ O13PR1N0 the storm. Gave away twenty pairs of clogs to the children most in need of them S « •• 4 FILLS Sr^LS>feftNTH«A'« 0 .O' to-day. PENISTO E. om VALt <3 A February 8th. There seems to be no prospects of a change and the distress a-*Ml ✓ .A. WlUMILL,'' is very great. y SCHO 0 H HILL V^CASTLt a? ILL BID February 22nd. More clogs given to the poorest of the children this week. aiKE Hou8taftAvu.s uancEN The attendance is still affected by the severity of the weather. \CA9TLC SB' V HILL )X ( April 5th. The local steel works shewing signs of better trade, several of L oign|n\«» Miss Jane Crossley who afterwards became Mrs. Jonathan Thorpe and one in .i*' Uijwin Street, kept by Miss A. H. Peddie, formerly a governess at the Vicarage. 'i IIS; I ' r ■ r. T. nfortunately her fondness for the bottle brought her down in life but she V'.. i iff: ...... i V continued her efforts as a good teacher, especially in English and Handwriting. -:ii' s Her last schoolroom was the front room of a terrace house, and the staircase was .4* ;.R.' s-:-- i.' -1 .1 a handy place in which to take a nip during lessons. When the bottle ran rr 41. ■ " ■ •' *• i 1 - - .f Page twenty tfi!' I’-WF- ■ , T’ I " ssm ''i • S '>1 fc'' ■ ^ ■ ^.. • •- S' • i. • 0 ■ •ir m iir ITHiTifriXh rt ,,,, ;,A!. •-V ■ - {■ : v. ■ . ■: r'. i. 5.^ '• .'f. V V 3 mxm ■ ;'j of the boys to go to the pub and get a-refill- However,I ■: s (-■8 , ■■ ^ea in 1917, aged 84. There were other Ladies’ Schools, one being kept by the -i Misses Nokes, daughters of the Registrar of Births and Deaths. ® ^ ^ the day amongst all those who applied for his instruction. He set out with the vr explanation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Optics, an extraordinary attempt for a blind ...I I man. He had many contrivances to supply the want of sight. He had a board, Professor Saunderson, LID., F,R.S., M.A. with a great number of holes in it atJ small and regular distances from each other, on this he easily formed any diagram he wished to have before him by merely . Professor Nicholas------Saunderson was one o fixing a few pins in the proper places, and extending a piece of twine over them most famous old boys of to represent the lines. In this manner,, we are told, he formed his figures more was born at Thurlstone readily than another would have done with a pen and ink. On the same board, he performed his calculations by means of a very ingenious method of notation a year old, Nicholas was deprived by smallpoxt not only of his sight, but even which he had contrived. The holes were separated into sets of nine, each set themselves, which were destroyed by abscess. Popular tradition forming a square, having a hole at each corner another at the middle point o' tr attainment of letters to a habit of passing his fingers over the in- each side, and one in the centre. It is obvious in such a figure one pin placed scriptions on the gravestones in the churchyard of Penistone (150 years before at the centre might be made to stand in any one of eight different positions with afterwards sent to the Grammar School of reference to another pin placed on the boundary line of the square; and each Penistone, then under the care of Mr. Staniforth, but not being able to read of these positions might represent, either to the eye or the touch, a particular himself, could only listen to others. Yet he soon made considerable progress number, thus affording signs for eight of the digits. Saunderson used to emp oy in a.ssical mathematical learning. He improved so far as to be perfectly able a pin with a larger head for the centre hole, so that even when it stood alone, £ to underhand the works of Archimedes, Euclid and Diophantus, in the original it formed a symbol distinguishable from any other. Lastly, by using two laige- Greek.^*eek. On his leaving the Grammar School, his father began to instruct him in headed pins in one of the positions, instead of one with a large and another the common rules of arithmetic, and here his genius first appeared. When eighteen with a small head as usual, he formed a tenth mark and so obtained representatives years of ap, he was introduced to the notice of Richard West of Underbank Hall for the nine digits and the cypher all the elementary characters required in the 5 Ihia. gentleman generously took pains to instruct him in the principles of common system of notation. He seems to have made use of sensib e repre .Jgc-bra and Geometry and soon after Dr. Nettleton took the same pains- to sentations chiefly in explaining the theorems of science to his pupils. In the piin^ these gentlemen he owed his introduction into the mathematical sciences prefixed to his Algebra, he is represented discoursing upon the geographical and They t instructed him by the sense of feeling, furnishing him with books anc often astronomical circles of the globe by the assistance of an ancilliary sphere con 3 read and expounded them to him, but he soon surprised his masters. His father structed of wood. When Mr. Whiston was removed from his professorship the 6 was extremely desirous to improve his love of knowledge, but he could not afford superiority of Saunderson’s merit was so evident that a very uncommon to send him to Oxford or Cambridge, and therefore placed him at a little academy taken to qualify him with a degree which the statutes required. The headsi of the m a villap c^ledcalled Attercliffe,Atterchffe, near Sheffield chiefly intended for the education Colleges made application to the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor, who, with ^ dissenting Ministers. Here Nicholas made him,self master of Logic and Meta- Sir Isaac Newton and some other persons, waited on Queen Anne to mtercedd for physics in a short time and then, as nothing else was taught there, he left. From a mandate for a master’s degree which her Majesty wag pleased to grant. Upon this he prosecuted his studies merely by the force of hia own genius. His frieuls . --•/ ------wx vwii gculua.genius. XllSHis iriBllfrieuls IS this he was chosen Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in November 1711. were even now determined to put him in the way of maintaining------ning himself,himself, andand it was at length agreed that he should A letter from Godfrey Bosville gives further information. It is dated 12th siiuLuu go to Cambridgeuamoridge and teach philosophy ini Anvil, 1735. written at the age of 17, from Cambridge to his stepfather. _ The address I. the University. He was perhaps the only person that first entered a University, I rinf. fn r(>,f>a^va 4-^ ______i___x- i____ i i. reads To Mr. Bosville at Gunthwaite near Barnsley, Yorkshire, and is as lollows:- not to receive, buti to communicate knowledge. He was not admitted to any Hon.'sir. I have begun to learn algebra with Mr. Saunderson (followed by) college but chose Christ Church for his residence, The Society, pleased with so We have been to one Lecture and have finished Multiplication, and Reduction. extraordinary a guest, allotted him an apartment,apartment/, gave him the use of their library, and admitted him to every other privilege of a member. Still, however, The letter is franked by P. Caxton- he had many diffi.eulbies to conquer. He was about 2o about 25 years of age, he had no In the year 1723 he tqok a house in Cambridge, and soon after married a fortune, and he had to teach philosophy when he had but une inena, jonn jjunn daughter of the Revd. W. Dickens, rector of Boxwith, in Cambridgeshire; by whom a fellow commoner of Christ College, and when Mr. Whiston, the most emineni he had a son and daughter. In the year 1728 his Majesty honoured the University mathematicianT XT . of hisfais time was in the------chair- (a chair in which he naahad sisucceeded with a visit and signified his desire of seeing the Professor. The Professm- accord Sir Isaac Newton). But Mr. Whiston was remarkably good-natured, and a great ingly attended hia Majesty to the Senate House and he was created a Doctor of eucourager of learning, aud therefore, instead of prohibiting Mr. Saunderson he the Civil Law on His Majesty’s command. Dr. Saunderson continued his lectures ;3 - gave him permismon to read lectures and recommended him whenever the oppor- for eleven years after this event. Several of his works were published after hia 1,unity offered. His lectures were so crowded that he found it difficult to dividA V.' ■' death, namely his “Elements of Algebra” in two volumes. His “Treatise on Fluxious ” and a Latin commentary on Sir Isaac Newton’s Principle. Great Page twenty-one crowds came to hear the blind man deliver lectures on Optics; discourse on the 4- , nature of light and colours; explain the theory of vision, the effects of glasses, the phenomenon of the rainbow, and other subjects of light. This must appear i.. -"oft. u l\ Page twenty-two I -- •' ■V ...I ■V -,v r- •• r- > • -a-" ; - ” Bhf&i-i.v - •• ‘■'I ;• t i *' f, ■c- t ■ '"s •1 -.t--- /.-8 iJt-v : TT.- -r •=■ ■.4;. 1* V- ,41= =*;.«■" It.. ■:, ->• ri •S' y .i' A yi' '7 ■■ lAs^ A rSliftfil:■■■ t■ir- ■ -‘^ m- •; ,,...... ^77^^‘.;yA '!.■ surprising, buh if we consider that this science is altogether explained by lines, ■A;. 4 and is subject to'the rules of geometry, it is nob difficult to conceive that he might 7y.Aitj: ■ ■ become a master of these subjects. A-®-'-" He played the flute with great skill and was fond of hunting. When resident ■ ■ ■"" ^ at Cambridge he hunted regularly and was attended by a mounted servant whose horse his own followed. The cry of the .founds stirred and delighted him and he ;i;l7 was accustomed to say 'that to hear the hounds but once was sufficient reward for •t 4 a whole day’s riding. He had a remarkable retentive memory. Visiting Thurl- 's'-' stone after an absence of forty years he was going down the Stottercliffe with his friends when he went before them to open a gate. He however got to the wrong ■■ 7: side of the gate, and he said. “ I can tell you that forty years ago this gate opened on this side.” This on enquiry was found to be the case, though it had been locally ■ A VIEW ?• forgotten. He could with the greatest nicety observe the least sign of roughness, T^ CONTESTED W^TER COURSE AT PENNISTONE 'r-. ¥ or defect of polish on a surface. In a set of Roman medals he distinguished the SOUTHWARD genuine from the false, though counterfeited with .such exactness as to deceive CHURCM Kj a conniosseur who had judged by the eye. THE CHURCH PLATT t Hospital Nicholas Saunderson died due to a raoi’tification of his. feet on April 19th, sj:losc. 5 I X LANp .1739, aged 57, and was interred at Boxworth. The cottage in which he was born o COMMONLY VICARIOGE was pulled down many years ago. It was situated near to the residence of Mr. ^^W£UCK 3 CALLED John Crossland Milner in Town Gate near to Thurlstone House. When a coach /fo VS£ ! 5 PROCTOR house was erected on the site of the cottage, Mr. Milner identified the locality by causing the following record to be cut upon a stone in the gable end of the o taro. land. land. cf building, “ HIC NATUS EST DR. NICHOLAS < SEAST a 5 a. SAUNDERSON 1682.” The stone t- flO t is at present fixed in the wall of the annexe of the Town End School Plaj'ground ■e •j ^ote.—The Academy at Attercliffe was named Jollies’ Academy, and Saunderson. bJ market WELL CaOFT. ^ $ to i had a.s school fellows two youths w'ho became famous as Bowes, Chancellor of i<9 P John /y a aviLoinm u Ireland, and Seeker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Eh^ ^ CwoNo AjcsMts firm fotto ? i the c'-r ------X I ® . ;■ -i--' A 9 a /V. j\)<, SiA)kA<- *u A i- .. Amongst the chief rents paid to t’apt. Bosville two items'. MC>i 8. ^UL. ‘A:'* .v-’V'' ■ 1722 John Wordsworth of Snowden Hill for land there, Id. ns, '9 1722 The heirs of John Greaves of Hallfield for land in Hunshelf called ■f-: 2:9 Q 7H6. t> Dunning House, 16d. • % T£KTER WOOL TRADE A INd. RiCHAftQ ■ As recently as the beginning of this 'century there were wool sales in d Penistone The Penistone sheep an old white faced horned sheep were noted lor COMMON 2^ IN3. their mutton ac well a« thei. wu<;l and as far back as 1804 there were eleven classes Sv CLIFF of sheep at the local Agricultural Show. The wool was of a medium length and a Si A silky appearance but harsh and wiry and from four to five lbs. a fleece. Both rams MILNE \ and ewes have horns which are very large and a distinguishing feature is an ex- _ tN6D HEAD ucme coarseness of form especially of the extremities. The singular characteristics \ SAiAs/t6 CHUACH FLAT! in the length and muscularity of the tail not analogous to the growth of fat uhich 3NAUIN0 / takes place in other .sheep \ CAAA J Until the invention of the steam engine the manufacture ot cloth was MASKIT undertaken by the small holders who combined two crafts that of farming with some branch of cloth manufacture. Hence, when one was in a period of inactivity tne cither would enable the family to live for it was extremely rare for both ciafts to MAAKET be in a state of depression simultaneously. The wool used was that from the place aaaiaoe WA'/ TO FIELDS & Penistone breed of sheep and it was manufactured locally into a white cloth known . )AIDLE WAT TO thoalstone AHHAH \mm as Penistones. The clothier supplied the raw wool to the spinner and then passea it to the weaver and collected the finished cloth to be sold at one of the recognised V CAOFT PAASON <0 A cloth markets. .Q 'm€8 / In 1743 the majority of the clothworkers or clothiers of Penistone had for ns paasoN S? o* g S'? o O < H ?3- s s P » «e S ^ Q- 2 s ® O B I g- ■’ N H JL C a 5-d* « *<* ^2 5- «C| » Cd i.s: i.F h-i £■ O E* ^ C_i S'<5 ?b;s fti a? 2 n 0 0 <-> loi» «« 5r*- » 5" g. ts / ' H5 0" 0- V ^ cc ^ J 05 B g. 3 r a rg S-|?|=|;?i *T3 C c o a a o p » ® O' c a g 3 3 5 ^ ® K OQ a w 2 a?: irg ^^^'2 a i p. cl' P s s CO V! W Hj ! V'.' rfT® I •i be" : A Pa '-Vi ■■i< '•.'C-. ► '.* •^' '■- i i'i-‘'-' rffiV »;‘V. •>>..: ’•v:v;v;i^: v.i-: -/■N'V d- M* ®- 3 p & >-« - - CD — ?■§ B - g g:® § *0 Ct- O * I ^ 8 o ^ ® g.wa trtS.^» "-"f” ® r _ - - § p «r-0 0;, o S'a ^-5•a gp S’ o p a oa 0) p So : o; a B -a? s;::;3 • -f 3* ' a r ii-;: S' .s ■r s' P “g p p ? •V i ..a>§ fSii -•- ■""liaiiB -..i £.' 'A -'■; ■"! ■ ••■■'■' V •• ■':- -». 1 - ■ V-^ V -. :■ nr^ -V. rj VI i:' 4^ IW iHl'i iA 'VV-'Vj.v'i ■-■ -i'" •■, ? ■ia -:' .r • • -- About 1827 part of the road between ;Bridge End Penistone and Watch Hill :;^^V ;5,. House, Thurlstone, fell into a very bad state owing to a dispute between the two townships as to their respective liability. An Indictment was the result, which ■ % being tried at the Assizes, it was decided that the liability to keep the road in repair •faij '1 laid on the township of Thurlstone. In 1891 John N. Dransfield thought of starting a newspaper and had a circular which contained the■ following entry: Bequest of Bread to Hiurlsltone THURLSTONE contains fine Congregational and Wesleyan Churche^ and several Chapels and Schools. Is a Local Board District. Also a School Board Extract from the Will of James Walton of Thurlstone in the parish of Penistone in ihe county of York, Esquire, dated June 1st, 1792. District. Is lighted with Gas. “I give, devise, and bequeath unto Askham Eyre of Thurlstone aforesaid gent, and Here are the Woollen Mills of Messrs. Thomas Tomasson & Son,, long noted • V • to his heirs assigns all those two messages or tenements with the appurtenances as the manufacturers of the well known “Livery Drabs” which may probably be the situate and standing in the Syke near Mottram Welkin Thurlstone aforesaid now Cloths called the Penistone or Forest Whites refered to in Acts of Parliament as in the several tenures or occupation of Jones Kinchliff and Elizabeth Byrara. To far back as the 5th and 6th of Ed. VI, 39 Eliz.,. and 4 James 1. the uses upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned There are also Gannister, Sanitary Pipe and Fire Brick Works, Wire and a e.vpressed and declared of and concerning the same, that is to say upon trust that my said trustee his heirs and assigns do and shall apply and dispose layout and ^ Umbrella Frame Worlcs, Collieries, etc. in the district. expend some and such part and parts of the rents issues and profits thex’eof from time to time for and towards the repair and maintenance of the said messages cr ' i tenements as shall be needful and necessary and also do and shall pay, lay out, and expend the rest residue and remainder of the rents, issues, and profits thereof from THURLSTONE before the Conquest one of the most valuable holdings ^e time to time in the purchase of bread to be distributed and divided amongst such Wapentake, 16 years after Conquerors march it was lying useless in the hand of poor persons ns are hereinafter mentioned that is to say To the poor of Thurlstone cle Laci. Thurlstone is not named in Kirkby’s Inquest 1284. It is mentioned m 12/- worth of bread on Christmas Eve, 12/- worth on Valentine Day, 12/- worth ‘•Nomina Villarum” in 1316, It was taxed with Penistone at the Inquisition of the on Whitsun Eve and 12/- worth on Michaelmas Eve. And I do direct my said X xr^T-.fVio 114.1 trustee his heirs or assigns to distribute and divide 120 penny loaves as Solmass cakes yearly on All Hallows Day to the poor of the town and township of Thurl- . In 1379, Thurlstone was more than 3 times the size of Penistone, it was called stime aforesaid and 4JJ half-penny rolls of bread to the poor coming out of the ' DHUELSTONE and 56 persons were taxed—16/lOd. was raised and twelve persons township of Thurlstone and to the respective tenants who shall occupy the said two were in business:— messuages or tenements at 6d. loaf each, on each of the several days and at the d. seve>'al times mentioned. And in case any of tlie rents and profits of the said Willelmus Ryhs and Alicia ejus Mercer lllj ! picraises shall remain, I direct my said trustee his heirs and assigns to lay out Alexander de Hesilhed and Johanna vx ejus Selaster vj and expand the same in the purchase of bread and to make such judicious donation Thomas de Turton and Beatrix vx ejus Smyth vj I tJiereof to such poor person a.s he shall think objects of charity but in case the said Thomas Russell and Johanna vx ejus Souter ■vj rents and profits will not extend to answer the purpose aforesaid, I do direct that Hugo de Rodword and Beatrix vx ejus Smyth vj such rents and profits as arise and remain after such repairs as aforesaid shall be Rogerus filius Robert Herryson Taylor vj laid out in due equal manner so as to answer my intention as near as can be. Thomas de Apilyard and Cecilia vx ejus Shereman vj Signed, James Walton Johnannes Roukeslay and Agnes vx ejus m lllj Witnesses Josh Moorhouse, Jsaac Jackson, Thomas Heiln. » Thomas de Ranar and Isakella vx ejus Johannes filius Johanna and Alicia vx ejus Hlj «• No bi-ead is now distributed in Thurlstoue under this bequest. Two houses Thomas Huddoaon and Alicia vx ejus lllj called "Bi’ead Houses” now form part of the Infant School premises and thrown Willelmus Russell and Alicia bx ejus lllj into one house occupied by the caretaker are no doubt the cottages devised by the Will. But how is it that the bequest has failed ? On December 4th, 1587, at the alarm of the danger of a Spanish Invasion, Thurlstone sent a strong detachment to the muster at Barnsley — Private men. In 1882 there were fourteen woollen manufacturers and several black warp Edward Rich, William Marsden and John Skott were Pikemen, William Scott sent and cloth dressers. William Wainwright was a pocket book maker and Thomas his man Nicholes Lee an archer. Included in the paid village soldiers were Edward Crossley of Bullhouse Hall had a fulling and scribbling mill. Firth and John Mitchell, archers, and William Thomson and John Nichols pike- Up to about 1864 the cloth trade was pretty brisk at Thurlstone and every men. n I %» '.s I Tuesday morning eight or ten connected with it could be seen at Penistone Station In 1587 at a Muster of the Militia at Barnsley to repel the Armada two taking the train to Huddersfield Market. The commons were enclosed in Thurl X Penistone men, William Wordsworth and John Biltcliffe were sent. stone in 1812. In 1811 and the few following year Militia were billeted at Penistone for the -.■> SI Luddite rebellion. Page sixty-one / In 1831 Constable certified that there had been four carts pressed to conv r P:-'^'- . ' ♦;, ^ baggage of the 3rd Dragoon Guards to Sheffield, 13 miles at 6d. per mile per cart ■ V-V‘''4 • .JH ,■ -A. ' Page sixty. ' ';i ; V.-- ^V• V: r .1 i feill >• \ ' . v: /if, ^-' # 'C- ':vn ^ -vl/. ?• • •.V ISife ■itilil/Utijaasw# * , . /-i' ■W'" IW! ■•'li ■K- . if-' ••1 iiiissiia*-;.. K .T.-s-y. a;- • <• > :'. V. J ? - v^---rt-,, lUilsiPi .A ‘.-. I- i - ■ :X-:..;^ k.^-M a - g ■jf ' ' ; i •&. . .*.* <4- had four Wate/^edl wf the oWwater Vhtef wh”h*'" >’’«• The old mill 4 . ■ • above mentioned and which has nevpr h^ which is the same old water wheel ^ !• •ds ftaiaiiligiaife Kfe-«i,VliZj:X4 v? of man . . . and wMoh being hrg offa d Me'^e T ■ ^ ^I . »::SI ’i’A-A situation than the new wheel and being a brea,t f V n® “i • ® “*‘‘0^ ■;t ,rV backwater except in floods. And thref other nlH^ h whee is not at all affected by Sieystone wheel another a fan whe‘el “d^t: olhera^sheHi'ng^heer ^ ’i‘S| V ■\ wheel in anoSer™Mrbrthe”s1dro£ it^Se sheo'^ one wheel race and the shelling the other race by a stone wall. And these three wlw®l separated from fhe greystone wheel was U feet 7 n fT?™'" “‘'*^^'’‘'0''*''buttle, The woollen cloth trade seems to have been more common in the township, feet from the head of its sheeting (viz the fioo^J.^ ‘‘ ^‘“o*^ ® besides other mills at Bullas, Plumpton and Thurlstone. The paper mill at Moor- '"•i sheeting as it possibly could. ^ ^ ^ race) and run as near the hallas (now Ecklands Bridge Umbrella works), was then in occupation of Messrs. George Brown & Son. Jonathan Woodhouse who died in 1886 at the age of 90 was , sheetingThe and fan ^nTgS^HboufrLt'i? d^ia^m T ^''^^el in the ____ apprenticed to this firm in 1810. Previous to this time, a Thomas Martin had been same in business as a paper maker here in 1755 Hair cloth chemicals were conveyed from sheeting. The shelling wheel was abou/l W ^ place to place and also to hold Ijnseed whilst being pressed and allow the oil to escape was manufactured at this time hy John and Benjamin Wainwright of Thiirlstone, but this branch of industry died out-with the persons names. In 1853 Lord Scarborough as Lord of the Manor.of Thurlstone claimed all the stone in the common lands of the township that could be worked through stone quarries. Mr. William Bailey of Stamford Lodge, Stalybridge, a large landowner mgs in the township resisted his claim. A Writ was issued against Mr. Baylcy in for the water. proportion and rather widened a little to give way January, 1854 and after a trial at York assizes and another in London a verdict was on June 8th, 1855 given in favour of Mr. Bayley. (Mr. John Dransfteld was «me i-n“ t^t as --i for his solicitor in this particular action). wheel. And as to the shelling mill iLet and th^ TT"' 8foys‘one I never altered from time immofial to the ^ebuHdi^. c® 11.''“' ™s Thurlstone or Hornthwaite Corn Mill as to the Fan Wheel the same was never»h^ j f * “d entirely taken away which was done sonre lilurtim^:f:;.ri7i?"°""* In a lease of 1724 Joseph Crossley rented Thurlstone Corn Mill for £22 per annum and in the document is this brief description of the mill. ■•vas thought more'SnvlnL^nt'to Tt "All this one corn mill containing in it two pieces of graystones, one pair of black graystones commonly called or known by the name of Thurlestone Mill or Horn all three old wheels together did and upon that^nlLn^fl" business which thwaite Mill situate standing and being in the parish of Penistone, together with constructed, and is broader in the bucket than ;n ^as one kiln containing in it two Harths belonging to the said mill and also the mill IS less by 3 inches in diameter than the old wheels together but dams or dams of w'ater ways go its banks, streams, water, watercourses, way, ■^ inches in diameter than the Fan Wheel. ° ^ ^reystone wheel and larger by 5ft. passages, easements, profitts, commodities and appurtances whatsoever to the said mill.” In order to found it necessary to Uke^awarthrni^'Ji.?! ^he workmen In a lease of 24 January, 1761 the ground between the goit of the Mill and unme ciie .sheeting of the s^li'^lHng muTwhed Biver Don is called the “Greavesholm”. n greystone wheel and bring the centre of tL np,v ^ sheeting of the old In 1764 Aymor Bich of Bullhouse as owner of the mill was in dispute with of the greystone wheel sheeting which was obut 4 Waltons who had the Oil Mill "close by" and In the notes prepared for Counsels centre of the old greystone wheel was and thp no - t down the race than the advice is the following description “Aymor Rich is the owner and his ancester from higher than the greystone wheel and being made 3 indtori ^ inches time immorial have been the owners of a corn mill in the township of Thurlstone 6 inches from the sheeting. The new wheel now H ^ Ti! now hangs called Thurlestone or Hornthwaitc Mill now (1764) under lease to Thomas Askham pair more than the old wheels) and will drive than either of the old wheels did. ^ with less water i. (tenant from about 1751 to 1762) when Aymor Rich leased the mill to him 16th December. 1762 for 21 years at a rent of £30 per annum when it contained 2 pairs of graystones and 1 pair of black stones and 1 pair of french stones. The mill has the me“:f‘mTn wifhiu -Ut always been supyjlied with water from the River Don by a goyt from which the water after it ha.s served the purpose of the mill is again conveyed by another goyt of equal antiquity with the mill and about 120 yards long into the main river. I ■* J^age sixty-three :—• . This mill has two other water wheels one which is very ancient and the other -.- *5J ■*'• has only been well set up about 3 years in the place of some old wheels. The old 4? wheel is a breast fall wheel and the new wheel an overshott wheel, a breast wheel m A? is not so much subject to the inconvenience of backwater or lading as an overshott i .m wheel. For that the waterfalls upon a great fall wheel on the upperside and turns ^:d:m it with the fall of water down the sheetings or bottom of the race but that the water is carried in a trough quite over an ovefshott wheel and falls on the lower fit side of the wheel and turns it inversely and therefore it ought not to touch any ■vV ,mm-:% water at all on the sheeting. %: [ Page sixty-two t |«fe w 1-- r' ii A ., A "WiwfiaAaiA' 4..- 'E: A- c:, s • •> 4 ■A',. -..Vr . i- '] . 1 ■ - - ’'-ciEsftSar;, 'M .A : -i: ir •• V: ..>. tag c / \ FAR' (si / IN& FAR. .<3 Vl Page fifty-fowr Vlos CLOSE a: ^ sfa ' y«WR W IN@ 5 z ALLEM NEAR -£ . t-. r-' ;=• ■f S. FIELD \ I ' - > CLOSE ^£3 ! 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