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Tockholes Time Line

c 1000 b.c. Bronze age spearhead lost at Slipper Lowe

c.12/13^thC Coins buried at Slipper Lowe

c.1200 AD ‘Tocholis’ written in Chartulary of Cockersands Abbey

1311 John de Radcliffe owns land at Holiuhead

1335 Walmsleys ‘of the Hill’ first recorded (Higher Hill or Lower Hill?)

1367 Garstamg family recorded in Tockholes (Garstang Hall?)

1523 Marsden family of Ryal and Bradleys first recorded

1570 Aspden of Red Lee and Halliwells of Halliwell Fold first recorded

1602 Hoghton’s of Red Lee first recorded branch of de Hoghtons)

1616 Date stone on Higher Whitehalgh (oldest existing house)

1620 Stone church (St. Michael’s) with 170 sittings

1644 Battle of Kill Field. Royalists prevailed against puritans

1662 Warren family take over Hollinshead Hall and Lordship of Manor

1668 Livesey and Tockholes declared separate townships

1674 Date stone of building (or re-building) of Red Lee East

1675 Date stone of building (or re-building) of Ryal Farm

1710 First Independent Chapel built on present site

1745 George Warren spent 6 years at Hollinshead Hall observing sun to prove Gregorian Calendar correct.

1752 Gregorian Calendar adopted

1761 Coincidentally named Hollinshead family take over Hollinshead Hall

1791 Date stone on Rock Inn (Victoria Hotel probably about same date)

1797 Darwen Turnpike road built

1801 First census – population of Tockholes 758

1801 Belmont Turnpike road built

1833 New church (St. Stephen’s) with 900 sittings built

1834 St. Stephen’s School built adjacent to Church

1855 Higher Roddlesworth Reservoir completed

1859 Eccles Shorrock builds Hollinshead Mill

1860 ‘Old Aggie’ attacked and robbed

1861 John Osbaldeston (Inventor of Weft Fork) buried in churchyard

1880 Independent Chapel re-built in its present form

1894 Old St. Stephen’s School condemned – new school built on Rock Lane

1895 Liverpool Water Board take over land around Roddlesworth Reservoir

1898 Right to roam celebrated at opening of Darwen Tower

1899 Bethesda Chapel demolished

1900 Hollinshead Mill closed

1964/5 Church demolished and replaced by present building

1973 12^th & 13^th Century coins discovered at Slipper Lowe

1974 Tockholes becomes part of Blackburn Borough

1997 M65 Motorway completed