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- Tourist guide to Worsthorne [1]
- Worsthorne - Lying approximately three miles east of the town centre, this historic village with its close association with the Thursby family, great benefactors of the Burnley area, has a number of interesting listed buildings including the Church of St. John the Evangelist with its fascinating wrought iron work. [2]
- In 1835 Worsthorne with Hurstwood was a township in the parish of Whalley. [3]
- map 1848 [4]
- Stone circle on Worsthorne Moor (Slipper Hill) "This site is found a few hundred meters along a dirt track and public footpath just above the village of Worsthorne." A 6" long flint dagger was found on Worsthorne Moor and is now in Towneley Museum - presumably this was found at one of the two Worsthorne sites. (History of Burnley, 1946).[5][6]
- Primary school 188 pupils [7][8]
- Worsthorne Moor [9]
- The Crooked Billet Inn, Worsthorne [10]
- BNP win [11] ... Howard was worried that his natural supporters were turning to the BNP. With good reason: after the 2001 count, we had traipsed up to Worsthorne, a picture-postcard village which could sit nicely in the Costwolds if its geology were different. There a retired police inspector said he had voted BNP because the homes of Asian people in the Daneshouse area had been given new hardwood front doors. Worsthorne has since acquired a second BNP councillor. Each year, Burnley council's media team prepares a fat election fact pack. This year it shows that the ward known as Cliviger with Worsthorne, on Burnley's rural eastern fringe, is the least deprived part of the borough. It is seen "to be a desirable place to live" and has "some of the highest property values in the area". Just 0.75% of local residents - about 40 people - are Asian. Its crime figures are way below the local average and the educational achievements of its children are much higher. [12]
- And then of course there’s Worsthorne, where I was born, an historic village associated with the wealthy and generous Thursby family. The extremely old Church of St John the Evangelist gets a surprising amount of attention for its “fascinating wrought-iron work” but, not to be disrespectful in any way, I get a kick out of knowing that my uncle, John Leaver, is buried there. He was a great guy, and we’ll meet him again later......If it’s spirits you want, I can recommended two great pubs in Worsthorne (I think they’re the only two there): the Bay Horse Inn in Church Square and the Crooked Billet on Smith Street, which used to be my dad’s favourite haunt (in keeping with the spirits theme). [13]
- WORSTHORNE, St. John the Evangelist (1833-1839) original architects plans [14]
- twite Carduelis flavirostris breeding in the South Pennines near Worsthorne [15]
- Rowley Hall and a Lady Boggart - Near Rowley Lake off Brunshaw road, Burnley is the ancient homestead of Rowley Hall, for many years the residence of the Halstead family. In true tradition with many old halls and mansions, Rowley Hall is said to be haunted. In this particular case, the ghost in question appears to be a lady boggart, who would make her presence known by an appearance dressed in a ball costume. Boggarts, although un-nerving to have around, tend to be mischievous in their acts rather than frightening. Legend tells that the Rowley boggart would stop people going about their business around the hall by a very definite but invisible force. Doors would unaccountably be impossible to open, yet at other times would slam open and shut for no apparent reason. It is said that William Chaffer, a Worsthorne joiner was at work late one night at Rowley Hall, when he received a silent but very determined visit from the lady ghost. The Rowley boggart was 'layed' at the confluence of the two streams just below Rowley Hall, at the water meetings at Netherwood Bridge. A treaty was agreed that the boggart would never again appear from the spirit world. The agreement was ratified by placing a headstone in the ground there as a seal. Just down the road from Rowley Hall at Brunshaw Bottom might be seen the 'Bee Hole Boggart' who was reported to have carried off 'Old Bet' leaving only her skin on a thorn bush to show what had happened to her.[16]
- Bay Horse Inn - The original Bay Horse pub in Worsthorne was once owned by a man who also leased Extwistle Mill, the remains of which can still be seen below Swinden Reservoir. His wife helped out at both places and graduallysaved up a bunch of money, which she hid from her husband at the inn. She was on her way from mill to pub one winter’s night when she fell into the swollen stream at Heckenhurst and drowned. Soon strange noises could be heard coming from a disused room at the tavern, and rumour spread that she’d returned to claim her hoard. The door was sealed to confine the spirit, and the noise ceased until, in the early 1900s, the landlord reopened the doorway so his family could use the room. “Old Thrutch” reseumed her nightly visits, wearing a rustic silk dress, sometimes stealing the children’s bedclothes. The room was soon sealed once more. In the top right of photo above, by the way, you can see The Square, where I was born. Hey! Also in Worsthorne is (or was) a spring called Jam Hole Well, where legend has it that fairies could be observed using little milk cans and making little pats of butter, but they haven’t been seen since 1883. [17]
| “ | The Akroyd or Ecroyd family, of which Mrs. Jesse Haines is a representative, was founded in England by John Aykrode, eldest son of William and Marianne (Waterhouse) Aykeroide, of Akroyd, settled at Worsthorne-apparently after marriage and births of his children between the years 1560 and 1570, died in 1573, having had issue Richard, John, Alice and Grace.
John Eacroide, of Worsthorne, second son and ultimate heir of John Aykeroid or Eakeroid, married, Fifth month 31, 1573, Agnes Aylotte or Eylotte, who bore him three sons and a daughter. His death occurred in 1622, that of his wife in 1618. William Acroide, of Worsthorne, eldest son and heir of John and Agnes (Aylotte) Eacroide, was baptized Third month 19, 1574. He married, Fourth month 6, 1600, Isabel Holte, who died Second month 14, 1618, having had as issue one son. John Eacroide, son of William and Isabel (Holte) Acroide, was born at Worsthorne, Seventh month 6, 1601. Later he removed to Fowlds, or Faulds House, Briarcliffe. He married and had a son. |
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