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Walton le Dale in Lancaster County England History and GeographyWALTON le DALE, a chapelry in the parish and lower division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (S.E.) from Preston, containing, according to the last census, 5740 inhabitants, since which period the number has increased to about 7000. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £1400 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £1300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Blackburn. The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, is principally in the later style of English architecture. It is situated on an eminence which commands fine views of the vale of Ribble on one side, and of the vale of Darwent on the other. Both these vallies are extremely picturesque, the banks of their respective rivers being steep and richly clothed with wood. The back ground of the Ribble is formed by the high and extensive ranges of Longridge and Pendle; and that of the Darwent by Billinge hill, and an abrupt elevation crowned with the ruins of Houghton Tower, the ancient baronial residence of the family of that name. Here are three large cotton-manufactories and several printing-establishments, affording employment to the greater portion of the inhabitants. There is a National school in the village, capable of containing one hundred and fifty children of each sex, established and wholly supported by voluntary contributions: the building is also used as a Sunday school. Another school-house was built by subscription among the inhabitants in 1672; it is endowed with about £16 per annum, for teaching all children who apply. In 1701, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Derwentwater, and other leaders of the jacobites, incorporated themselves by the style of the 'Mayor and Corporation of the ancient borough of Walton,' and held their meetings in a small public-house here, concealing their real motives under the guise of ludicrous transactions; they kept a register, a mace, a sword of state, and other mock insignia of office: the society, notwithstanding the diminution of the number of its members by the unsuccessful rebellion of 1715, existed till about thirty years ago, when it was entirely dissolved. Walton is distinguished as the scene of a great battle, fought August 17th, 1648, between Cromwell and the Duke of Hamilton; also for a gallant achievement performed, in 1715, by General, or Parson, Wood and his congregation, in defending the passage of the Ribble against the Scottish rebels. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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