Author Archives: Joan Lakeland

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Elsie Barnaby, b 1920, her memories of Hapton as told to Joan Lakeland Education Whitefield Street – Church of England (now site of Methodist Church). School doubled up as a Church until St. Margaret’s was built. First sod dug by … Continue reading →

The Lady Sybil Legend – Bearnshaw Tower and Hapton Tower Legends                                     Lady Sybil and the Milk White Doe Through the great gorge of Cliviger, Where cold, abrasive winds scour, In a ravine beneath Eagles’ Crag Stood the ancient … Continue reading →

CLITHEROE Court Rolls v 111 TITHES AND OBLATIONS RECEIVED BY THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF WHALLEY FROM THE WHOLE PARISH OF WHALLEY AND PAROCHIAL CHAPELRIES IN THE YEAR 1536. In the account of Brother Richard Mersden in the office of … Continue reading →

‘In 1911 the lord of the manor was the seventh Earl of Abingdon, in right of his first wife Caroline Louisa, eldest daughter and co-heir of Charles Towneley. In Lord Abingdon put 2500 acres out of a total of 4,008 … Continue reading →

Hapton and the Leeds and Liverpool. Perhaps the first thing any visitor to Hapton cannot help but notice is the close proximity of all forms of terrestrial transport. For more than three centuries pioneering engineers have chosen to route their … Continue reading →

FORWARD by Brenda Hayman I am indebted to Mrs. Joan Smith of Hapton for drawing my attention to this all but forgotten part of Hapton. Bridtwisell was the original name of this small hamlet in the south-east corner of Hapton, but … Continue reading →