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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ... ownership of the Crown (except when James I. granted it to his queen) until 1628, when Charles I. sold the Lordship of Ackworth to Commissioners for the City of London, by whom the manor and manor house were sold to Mark Pickering. About 1630 Mrs. Leigh, afterward wife to Sir John Lowther, bought the park estate, and it descended to her son Ealph Lowther, and on his death in 1724 to his son John, M.P. for Pontefract, who died 1729, when the estate went to his sister Mary, who endowed the church and hospital in Ackworth. She died 1753, and her niece Margaret Norton, wife--first to John Bright Esq. of Badsworth, and secondly to Sir John Ramsden of Byram--sold the property in 1763 to Francis Sykes Esq. After him came other owners until 1831, when Mr. John Gully bought it for, ic is said, 21,500. Mr. Gully was buried in his own grounds against the church yard wall. About 1851 Mr. Henry Hill became owner. Much additional property has been purchased by Mr. Hill since then; and the estate is now compact and valuable and well managed. Nearly all the particulars in this note relative to Ackworth park are from the Ackworth Parochial Maga is the rectory, a good modern dwelling. Elsewhere are situate other large houses occupied by residents of ample pecuniary means, whilst many smaller dwellings have such an appearance of comfort as to indicate that the occupiers are not only comparatively well off, but have also some culture and good taste. Ackworth grange and Houndhill, two of the large dwellings, lie on the easterly side of the township. Beside the church, here are chapels of late erection for the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist societies. At Low Ackworth stands a girls' and infants' school and mistress's house, neatly built, bearing the following inscriptio...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151261762
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 150
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151261769
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 281 gr


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