Swinden Estate, Nelson

Abridgement of Deeds relating to Long Swinden or Swinden Hall Farm at Great Marsden

6th oct 1917: Swinden Farm and Hall sold to Alfred Parker and William Sagar, tanner, they resold to Corporation 23 Aug 1935** (see Swinden Hall deeds). The property was listed as: The Great Meadow 5acres 0 roods 2 perches - Acre 2a 3r 26p - Clough or Wood 1a 2r 26p - Lee Field (formerly 2 closes called Clough Head and Hammon Fields) 6a 3r 15p - Parcel partly in Colne and partly in Nelson bounded on the north-west & west by a portion of Swinden Hall Farm and south by a close called Clough or Wood 0 a 1r 13p- Strip formerly part of Swinden Hall Farm and forming road from the highway from Colne to Burnley.

In 1873 part of Coal Syke Farm land was occupied by Long Swinden Farm. A 1766 survey by James Foulds shows Great Meadow 3a 12p - Acre 1a 2r 33p - Clough 2r 49p - Clough Head 1a 2p - Hammon Fields 2a 3r 31p. The farm was formerly in the occupation of John Prescott and James Foulds then Richard Elliott and John Cook then John Kippax, James greenwood and Ambrose Greenwood. used chapter 2
The farm house, outhouses, barns and gardens at, or near, the ford of Gillriding (Swinden Farm) 2r 3p - Horse Pasture 3r 0p - Rye Bank Meadow 1a 2r 29p - Great Holme 3a 2r 14p - Great Holme Top 1a 1r 16p - Little Rye bank 1a 3r 16p - Tup Holme 1a 2r 32p - Square Holme 1a 1r 26p - Great Rye Bank 4a 1r (to be occupied with certain closes of land called Great Meadow - Acre - Clough Clough Head and Hammon Fields formerly part of a copyhold estate called Coal Syke and were afterwards in the occupation of John Prescott then of James Hopwood, John Elliott and Richard Elliott).

1873: All that messuage or tenement formerly called Gill Riding and now known as Swinden Farm late in the occupation of John Elliot, now of Richard Elliot, being: Great Holme - Long Holme - Tup Holme - Farther and Nearer Rye Bank and Baxter Butts about 16acres. All those closes formerly belonging and occupied with a farm or tenement called Coal Syke being Great Meadow - Acre - Black Earth - Clay Earth and The Clough.

3rd may 1860: Indenture between William Pilling of Trawden House, Colne, gent - Christopher Grimshaw - James Foulds esq - Thomas Mason Johnson esq - William Nicholson Alcock - Henry Alcock - Thomas Birkbeck - John Birkbeck - William Robinson the elder - George Stansfield - William Robinson the younger - Joseph Birkbeck - William Smith - Henry Alcock - Robert Shaw ......... by which the above herediments were conveyed to Robert Shaw in trust for William Pilling and his assigns for life and afterwards to the use of his will.

8th may 1860: Surrender at the request of William Pilling by John Reuben and Jane Hartley in whom the legal estate was then vested - administration 26th October.

7th April 1866: William Pilling by his will devised to his son Arthur Pilling all that messuage and tenement at or called Swinden in Great Marsden containing in the Lord's measure 26 acres 1 rood and 28 perches and then in the occupation of John Elliott, chargeable with payment of an annuity of Ł30 to the testator's wife Mary from the 12th June 1867...... administration granted to Mary on 17th December 1866.

12th June 1873: Covenant contained in the indenture between Robert Shaw of Colne, cotton spinner - Arthur Pilling of Colne, draper and Henry Waddington Hartley of Colne, gent, by which Arthur Pilling conveys to Henry Waddington Hartley the premises of Swinden Farm as security against a loan of Ł800 - this was repaid and re-conveyed in April 1884.

9th November 1875: Indenture between Arthur Pilling of Colne, draper - Frederick Louis Burkhill of Booth near Liverpool, a Captain in the Royal Marines and William Henry Hartley of Colne, gent, by which the above Ł800 being unpaid the parties of William Hartley and Frederick Burkhill agree to lend Arthur Pilling the sum of Ł312 and the herditaments of Swinden Farm are surrendered to them - this was repaid in June 1877.

1st March 1879: The will of Arthur Pilling of Trawden, gent, by which he appoints his wife Jane, brother John Pilling and brother-in-law Luther Hardcastle Marsden as his executors and his wife Jane to be guardian of his infant children and bequeathing to her his effects and his estate to John Pilling on trust with power of sale and the Swinden Hall estate of which John is a trustee likewise, for his wife Jane - Arthur Pilling died May 1879.

7th December 1883: John Pilling sells land at Swinden to the Local Board for the purposes of the erection of a sewage works. William Henry Hartley receives Ł800 and John Pilling receives Ł4,093. The land in question was all of The Square - Small and Great Holme - parts of Great and Little Rye Bank - Lower Meadow and all parts of Swinden Farm being 16acres 3roods 10 perches and late in the occupation of Robert Jackson.

10th October 1895: John Pilling of Colne, gent, and Jane Chadwick, the wife of Thomas Chadwick, surrender to William Arthur Pilling of Colne, gent (he was now aged 21), all those closes of land in the Borough of Colne, except part of Clough which is in Nelson, being in the occupation of James Hartley.

Swinden Hall Nelson

December 1766: A survey of James Foulds esq, shows the Swinden Hall Estate to comprise of: The House - Outhouses - Bays - Fold - Garden and Lane at 1a 1r 12p - Leath Holme 2a 17p- Wastes 1a 3r 31p - Nearer, Middle and Further Bank 3a 10r 2p , 2a 1r 32p, 1a 2r 28p - Stoney Holme 2a 3r 28p - Little Holme 3a 3r - Little Over The Water Holme 19p - Little Field 3r 6p - Little Marled Field 1a 39p - Great Marled Field 2a 1r 32p- Total area 29a 3r 3p - all formerly in the occupation of John Prescott and James Foulds and afterwards of Richard Elliott and John Cook then of John Kippax, James Greenwood and Ambrose Greenwood and since of James Rushton, late of James Crabtree and now of Richard Blackburn.

1875: All that capital messuage and tenement called Swinden Hall in Great Marsden containing 29 acres 3 roods 3 perches in the Lord's measures, then in the occupation of James Crabtree charged with payment of Ł30 to the testator's wife Mary and containing Barns - Buildings -Gardens - Orchards - Backsides and Closes called: Great Lands - Less Lands - Little Ing - Great Marled and Lesser Marled Fields - Great, Middle and Further North Bank - The Leys - The Horse Holme Ing and the Laithe Holme. Some of this land was sold by Mary Fould's estate to the proprietors of the canal navigation from Leeds to Liverpool.

16th Feb 1875: Conveyance from Robert Shaw esq ,of Colne, and Albert Pilling to Isaac Halstead of Clough Head, in Great and Little Marsden, the premises of Swinden Hall are used as surety against a loan of Ł1000.

21st June 1876: Loan to Albert Pilling, a bachelor, now of 69 Hall Street, Greenheys, Lancashire from John Pilling of Colne, farmer, and Arthur Pilling of Colne, draper, of Ł150 and a surrender to them of the property of Swinden Hall.

24th March 1876: Mary Pilling died.

1st September 1876: Albert Pilling repaid Isaac Halstead the sum of Ł1000.

24th October 1876: The will of Albert Pilling appoints John Pilling of Colne, farmer, and Arthur Pilling of Stanstead, near Colne, farmer, as trustees for the sale, division of rents and profits between the testator's brothers and sisters being: William Pilling - John Pilling - Hartley Pilling - Arthur Pilling - Margaret the wife of George Chadwick and Amanda the wife of Henry Poole. Albert Pilling died 4th November 1876 and his will was proved 20th February 1877.

14th June 1877: Arthur Pilling, the owner of Swinden Farm and one of the trustees of the Swinden Hall Estate, pays to himself and fellow trustee John Pilling the sum of Ł20 for the purchase of: All that parcel of land lately a portion of Swinden Hall Estate but now staked off from the residue of the said close, bounded on the north, west and north-west by other parts of the estate and on the south and east by Swinden Farm at 1 rood and 13 perches. Also all that strip being part of Swinden Hall over which runs the present Occupation Road from the farm buildings on Swinden Hall Estate and Swinden Farm respectively towards the highway from Nelson to Colne and which skirts the western side of Swinden Farm, being for the most part separated by the thorn fence and elsewhere staked off at 2 roods and 37 perches.

13th May 1879: Arthur Pilling died leaving 3 children - William Arthur born 18/4/1874 - Mary Elizabeth born 8/9/1875 - Luther Albert born 23/9/1877 .

8th September 1881: Arthur Pilling's widow, Jane, married Thomas Chadwick of Trawden, boot and shoe maker.

7th December 1883: George Rushworth purchases part of the Swinden Hall land for Ł107.

21st December 1883: Thomas Chadwick purchases, for Ł3,500; All that capital messuage and tenements known as Swinden Hall with the land now occupied by Richard Blackburn and now described as: Farm House - Stable - Buildings - Fold 1 rood 27 perches - part of Little Holme and Wastes (in one close) 5a 32 p - Nearer, Middle and Further Bank - Stoney, Little and Lower Holme (in one close) 16a 1r 3p - Further and Middle Bank - Little Field - Little and Great Marled Field (in one close) 10a 2r 33p - Nearer Bank 3a 1r 37p - Land - Nearer and Farther Meadow (in one) 5a 2r 2p - Total area 45 acres 3 roods 33 perches.

23rd may 1884: Thomas Chadwick re-surrendered to John Pilling the above land and property on a mortgage payment of Ł3,500.

18th October 1895: John Pilling of Colne, gent, and Jane Chadwick, the wife of Thomas Chadwick, surrender to William Arthur Pilling of Colne, gent (now 21), the Swinden Hall Farm at 45 acres 3 roods 33 perches in total - previously mortgaged by Thomas Chadwick and now in the occupation of James Jackson.

10th May 1912: Jane Chadwick died whilst living with her son, William Arthur Pilling, at Ash Villa in the Forest of Trawden.

6th September 1912: William Arthur Pilling sells all that part of 2 acres at Swinden Hall Farm, near to Swinden Bridge, to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company for the sum of Ł320. The purpose of the sale was for the Company to pile the canal banking at that point so as to avoid further erosion.

**6th October 1917: William Arthur Pilling and his wife, Martha Roper Pilling, convey to Alfred Parker Sagar and William Sagar, tanners of Ball Grove, Colne, all those 2 messuages or farms known as Swinden Farm and Swinden Hall at a total of 70 acres and occupied since October 1911 by Catlow Birtwistle - price paid is Ł7,200.

20th August 1928: William Pilling and his wife Mary convey to Alfred Parker Sagar and William Sagar all that plot of land formerly a portion of the Lee, or Nearer Lee Farm, at Colne bounded on the north-west by Swinden Hall and Swinden Farm, on the south-east by Burnley Road, Colne and by a back street, on the north-east by a plot now, or formerly, belonging to John Kenyon Ltd; on the south-west side by Swinden Lane and on the south by the dwelling house of number 362 Burnley Road, Colne containing some 2,255 square yards*.

3rd April 1930: Death of Arthur Parker Sagar.

21st October 1934: William Sagar died and his will of the 10th December 1926 appoints his wife Laura Kate Sagar and his sons Harry Oates Sagar of Eastfield, Colne, tanner and leather dresser, and Thomas Preston Sagar of Garfield, Colne, tanner and leather dresser, as his executors.

23rd August 1935: Harry Oates Sagar and Thomas Preston Sagar sell all of the Estate of Swinden Hall and Swinden Farm and all of the land at Lee* to Nelson Corporation for the sum of Ł7,000 - relating to this are deeds numbered 556 for the Whitewalls Industrial Estate.

As at 2006 much of the area of land shown above is occupied by the Whitewalls Industrial Estate, Asda Superstore, Nelson Corporation waste disposal facility, Colne sewage works and the houses of the Hodge House and Raikes HouseEstate, Edward Street etc.

Date:1564-5
Indenture made between John Townley of the Cornefeilde co. Lanc. esq., of the one part & Hen. Bawden of Walforden Mylne upon the other part; John has to farm letten to Hen. a water mylne in Colne co. Lanc. called Walforden Mylne, for 3 years