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1592 Boundary of Colne & Adjacent manors: describing the Lancs/Yorks border at Black Lane Ends, Colne:
In 1592 (according to History of Lancashire Vol 6) the Queen ordered Sir Richard Shireburn, and others, to survey the boundaries of Colne and the adjoining manors.
Deposition of Rober Hargreaves, an old tenant of Colne and tenant of Edmund Towneley of Royle - He has heard from very aged men that a 'Whikin' or mountain ash, and a thorn grew in the upper end of Hayneslack above and below the dyke called Lancashire Dyke and that this dyke was the boundary between Colne and Ickornshaw as far as it went. Then the marks were a grey stone in the Bawsedge and Wolfstones.
Another witness said that the boundaries began at Tom Cross, led straight to a stone on Surgill End, then south to south-east into Skipton Clough, down to a stone in the lower end of this clough, thence to a stone on Grindlestone Edge and directly over the grey stone on Bawsedge. Then to a dyke called Sandyforth, running on the east end of Redeshaw, down into Ickornshaw and so to Hunter Law.
Another witness stated that the known bounds were a grey stone in Aynslack head, Stone Benkes, round the hill at Barnside Knarr end to Sandyford bridge and Lancashire Water. Tenants of Monkroyd had always repaired the west end of of the stone bridge over Sandyford Dyke and the tenants of Ickornshaw repaired the east end of it.
Hayneslack is the farm at the junction where the Black Lane Ends road forks down to Lothersdale. Sandyforth and Bawsedge are opposite the plantation on the Moss road past Monkroyd. The boundary described is the present county boundary. The described boundary runs down from Bleara Lowe, south-east and up onto Ickornshaw Moor. The parish boundary continues on from Bleara, north-east to Pinhaw.
The Lancashire Dyke is still quite obvious above Hayneslack at Black Lane Ends.
Another survey was made in 1605 to set the bounds between Colne and Ickornshaw.
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