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From Court Roll copy in my possession:



Ridgealing is a farm situated on the Barrowford/Roughlee parish boundary (SD 845 400) and appears to have been part of an ancient clustered settlement. Nearby, at the end of the Noggarth ridge, is a level land platform where another building probably once stood. This spot is exactly on a point where the medieval vaccary of Over Barrowford Booth turns south contiguous with the Nether Barrowford vaccary and runs down to the place where Carr Corn Mill once stood.Ridgealing can be taken to mean "settlement at the back of the hill" or "settlement of the ridge." The trackway serving the farm runs from the top of Pasture Lane (Barrowford to Roughlee Road) to the Fence to Roughlee Road at the top of Sandy Lane. This track is the ancient ridge route from Ribchester to Elslack via the Water Meetings, White Moor and Barlick.

United Utilities are to build a major new water treatment and pumping works here in the near future.


Names:
Willam Smith
Alice Smith
John Heelis
Henry Wilkinson
S.Greenwood
Dixon Robinson
James Smith Hartley
William Roberts

The Halmot Court of the most noble Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury holden at Higham the ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty two before Dixon Robinson gentleman Steward there.

BE IT REMEMBERED that on the fifth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty two in consideration of the sum of two thousand and one hundred pounds of lawful English money unto William Smith of Hurstwood in the county of Lancaster yeoman in hand well and truly paid by John Heelis of Burnley esquire for the absolute inheritance in fee simple free from incumberences of and in the copyhold messuage tenement lands hereditaments and premises hereinafter described the said William Smith doth hereby acknowedge and discharge John Heelis forever.

THE SAID William Smith and also Alice his wife (having been duly examined by William Smith deputy Steward to Dixon Robinson) do surrender into the hands of the Lord of the Forest of Pendle by a rod ALL that messuage dwellinghouse farm or tenement called or known by the name of Ridgel Ing situate and being within the Rough Lee and the barn cottages and other buildings to the same messuage farm or tenement and all those closes or parcels of land in Rough Lee Booth known by the several names of the Rough Field (now a meadow) the Read Field; the Occupation Road; the Lime Field; the Great Field; the Marle; the Lower Meadow; the Higher Meadow; the Bob Hollings; the Occupation Road and Plantation ALL which said premises are now in the occupation of James Smyth Hartley as tenant and containing in the whole forty acres three roods and twenty eight perches and are of the yearly rent to the Lord of the Forest of six shillings and eleven pence.

TOGETHER with all those singular houses; outhouses; edifices; buildings; bridges; ways; paths; passages; water; watercourses; trees; woods; underwoods; hedges; ditches; fences; commons; common of pasture; turbary privileges; easements and advantages; rights; members and appurtenances whatsoever and which said premises William Smith the surrenderor was admitted tenant at a general court held on the twenty sixth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

AND ALL the estate etc, of William Smith and Alice his wife to that use and behoof of the said John Heelis and hereupon cometh the said John Heelis by Henry Wilkinson his attorney and desires to be admitted to his fine; no person forbidding the said premises with appurtenances are granted by the Steward to John Heelis to have and to hold to him and his heirs and assigns forever and he gives to the said Lord of the Forest for fine six shillings and eleven pence by the pledge of William Roberts gent.


Written in pencil on the outside of the document:
This entry relates to Ridgeling farm occupied by S.Greenwood.
The quantity is really 50 acres not 40.
The Court Rolls are ....... J.H 3

John A Clayton
Barrowford © 2005