The History of the King-Wilkinson Family and the Slaidburn Estate

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A much anticipated, new history of Slaidburn, which will complement the Where in Slaidburn village is Parker House (built in 1707)? Place ‘Short History of the Parish of Slaidburn’ by Alice Peel published in the Houses? Bannister’s? Bait Hall? Bond’s? All are still standing but their 1920s, Chris Spencer’s forthcoming book will be substantial and will former names are long forgotten in the mists of time. detail all the purchases of property made by the Wilkinson (later King- Wilkinson) family in and around Slaidburn over a period of several Which well-known architect designed Croasdale Bank near the War hundred years. It has been possible to trace almost every conveyance of Memorial in Slaidburn? Which other house in Slaidburn did he design? every farm and every cottage in the district. Ingbreak, Barcroft and Raw Moor were once well-known, large areas of

Leonard Wilkinson came from Aysgarth to live at Swinshaw farm in Dale agricultural land around Slaidburn but their names have vanished from Head in the 1730s and thereafter began buying up nearby lands. His sons the maps? Where were they? bought more nearby farms (Bridge House, Cocklick, Hesbert Hall, Eggberry House and Black House). By the late 1790s, Leonard’s grandson, What did ‘Bounty’ look like? The Reverend Henry Wiglesworth’s another Leonard Wilkinson, began buying up farms, cottages and lands favourite hunting hound and after which the village inn is named. in and around Slaidburn village, and also in Lower Easington and Newton in Bowland. By 1927, the King-Wilkinson family owned almost 6000 acres Why did Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, Queen Victoria’s surgeon, visit in and around Slaidburn, scattered over 40 farms. Slaidburn twice in 1883? Why did the Wilkinson family take the additional name of King later that same year? Large parts of the outlying Estate were disposed of in 1927. Procter’s farm, one of many Slaidburn Estate farms until 1927, had been bought What is the true story of Dunnow Hall? Why was it built and why did for £7000 in 1883. With a reserve of just £2500 at auction in 1927, it and the King-Wilkinson family never live there? many other estate farms failed to sell. Why? The big sale of 1927 is covered in detail in Chris Spencer’s book and the aftermath is chronicled How much did the Wilkinsons pay for the Town Head Estate in 1855? via a Northallerton property speculator and All Souls’ College, Oxford, into the modern era. What was the family’s connection with the composer Edward Elgar?

What did Whiteholme look like before the present house was built in the 1850s? The old Slaidburn rectory built in the 1600s was demolished

About the Author in early 1863 to make way for a grand Victorian replacement. What did the original building from the 1600s look like? Chris Spencer is a graduate of Imperial College, London and has been researching the Slaidburn area for over 40 years. Recently retired from Where was ‘The Huntsman’ in the 1700s, Slaidburn’s third inn? teaching at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, he has now catalogued the 400 boxes of King-Wilkinson family deeds and papers in the Lancashire Where was the Hare and Hounds Inn in Newton in Bowland? Archives and this family estate collection has provided the bulk of the material for his forthcoming book. All the answers will be found in Chris Spencer’s forthcoming book.

Index of Farms & Places in ‘The History of the King-Wilkinson Family & The Slaidburn Estate’

A House in Croasdale Agnes Land, Champion Huntington’s farm (part of Laytham’s) Huntington House, Slaidburn B Huntsman Inn, Slaidburn Back Lane, Newton Hyde’s farm, Newton Bael Grove, Slaidburn Bannister’s or Howson’s tenement (Field Head) I Barcroft Ingbreak, Slaidburn Bate/Bait Hall, Slaidburn Ivy Cottage, Slaidburn Battersby Copies (Ingbreak), Slaidburn Battersby Hall K Battersby’s cottages, Slaidburn Kendall Moss, Champion Bawgreaves (now called Horns) King’s House, Slaidburn Beatrix Knott Gate, Slaidburn Beck Side, Slaidburn Knott, Slaidburn Bell Sykes Knowlmere Birkett, Newton Black Bull Inn, Slaidburn L Black House, Easington Lamb Hill Bleazard’s cottages, Slaidburn Lane Ends near Harrop Bleazard’s farm, Easington Lane Ends, Easington Blue Butts (with Beckenshaw) Lane Side (Sandbeds) Boarsden Langcliffe Cross, Champion Bond’s cottages, Slaidburn Langden Holme Brabin Field, Slaidburn Lanshaw’s farm Brennand’s Endowed School, Slaidburn Laytham’s farm Bridge/Brigg House, Easington Livingstone House, Slaidburn Broadhead, Easington Long Stripes, Newton Brock Thorn, Easington Lower Edge Brooklets, Slaidburn Lower Highfield Brown Hills, Newton Lower Moor, Newton Browsholme/Browsholme Hall Lower Stony Bank, Easington Brunghill Moor (Turner’s farm), Newton Lowlands, Newton Burn (Mountain of) Burn End (Rudd’s farm) M Burn House Manor House, Easington Burn Moor Meanley Burn Side Mellows, Slaidburn Butterfield House or Standridge Merrybent Hill Butterfield Tenement, Easington Mill Hill, Dale Head Mitton’s farm C Moss House, Dale Head Carr House, Slaidburn Mount Pleasant, Slaidburn Champion Chapel House (Spencer House), Slaidburn N Church Stile, Slaidburn New Bridge, Slaidburn Clarke Laithe New Close Cloo/Clough farm, Woodhouse New Laithes Clough barn, Woodhouse Newton Clough farm, Raw Moor Newton Chapel, Newton CE School Cocklake/Cocklick House, Easington Newton Hall Cockshutt’s cottages, Slaidburn Newton post office Cockshutt’s Part, Easington College Close cottages, Newton O Collyholme Oddie’s farm Cragg House, Newton Old Bridge End, Slaidburn Cragg’s farm, Newton Oxengill House Crawshaw Croasdale Bank, Slaidburn P Croasdale Fell farm Page’s farm Croasdale House Pain Hill Croasdale Moor Parker House (Ivy Cottage), Slaidburn Cross Bank, Raw Moor Parker’s Arms, Newton Parrock Head (Bank’s farm) D Peart Copies Dale Head Church (St James) & Vicarage Phynis Dale Head school Place Houses, Slaidburn Dale Head, Easington Poor’s Land, Slaidburn Dale House, Slaidburn Procter’s farm, Woodhouse Davison’s farm, Woodhouse Dog Inn, Slaidburn (Hark to Bounty) Q Duckmire Quaker School, Newton

Dugdale’s farm, Easington Dunnow (Dunnow Hall) R Dunnow Lodge Radholme Laund Dunsop farm, Woodhouse Raingill, Easington Ramsclough E Rishton Grange, Easington Easington (Lower), Lordship of Robinson’s farm, Easington Easington Fell Rock House, Slaidburn Easington, p. Slaidburn Eggberry House, Easington S Ellerbeck Hall (Woodhouse Hall/Smithson’s) Salisbury Field, Newton Elm Tree Croft, Slaidburn Salisbury Hall, Newton Scawbreak, Slaidburn F School Lands, Slaidburn Far Laithe, Easington Sharp’s Houses, Slaidburn Fell Moss, Easington Shay House Fell Side Simfield Field Head Simpson’s Moss Flatts, Slaidburn Simpson’s Tenement in Easington Fober Barn, Newton Skaithe, Slaidburn Fowlands, Newton Skelshaw Slaidburn G Smelfthwaites Gamble Hole Smithson’s farm Gaughey Hills South View, Slaidburn Gaughey House Sparrow Hall, Slaidburn Gawcar, Easington Stabley Banks, Slaidburn Gillwill, Slaidburn Standridge (or Butterfield House) Glebe House, Slaidburn Stocks Reservoir Gold Hill farm, Woodhouse Storth, Newton Grange Hall, Easington Sturzacres, Slaidburn Greenwood cottages, Slaidburn Sunnyside, Newton Sutton’s farm, Newton H Swinshaw Hall Gate, Newton Hammerton Hall T Hare and Hounds Inn, Newton Tan Yard Garden, Slaidburn Hargreaves Houses, Slaidburn Tea Pot Hall, Slaidburn Hark to Bounty Inn, Slaidburn Tinklers Harker’s farm, Raw Moor Tosside Harrison’s Croft, Slaidburn Town End, Slaidburn Harrison’s farm, Woodhouse Town Head, Slaidburn Harrop Hall Townson’s cottages, Slaidburn Hartley’s cottages, Slaidburn Turner Hills, Newton Hasgill, Easington Head of Green (Green Head), Easington W Heaning, Newton Wainman Houses, Town End, Slaidburn Height, Easington Wallbank’s/Wald Bank, Slaidburn Hesbert Hall War Memorial, Slaidburn Hey farm Waterloo Buildings, Slaidburn Higher Birch Hill, Easington Weatherhead farm, Slaidburn Higher Copy, Newton Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Slaidburn Higher Edge White Moss Higher Highfield Whiteholme Higher House, Newton Winder’s cottages, Slaidburn Higher Stony Bank, Easington Windyates, Newton Higher Underhand, Newton Witton’s farm, Slaidburn Highfield Woodbine cottage, Slaidburn Highfield Quarry Woodhouse Hill House (Hill Top), Newton Woodhouse Cottage Hindley Head, Gisburn Forest Woodhouse Gate Hodder Bank, Knowlmere Holden Clough Y Hollings, Easington Youlston Wood, Newton Horns/Thorns, Slaidburn Youth Hostel, Slaidburn