The Terleway's Lands were given by some one unknown at a very early date "for the use of the parish, as the vicar and vestry shall direct," and consist of lands in Claughton and a garden in Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre.[1]
POPULATION OF UPPER RAWCLIFFE-WITH-TARNACRE.
1801. 1811. 1821. 1831. 1841. 1851. 1861. 1871.
494 617 643 665 671 697 682 700
The area of the township embraces 3,743 statute acres.
Great Eccleston. Great Eccleston was anciently held by
William de Lancaster as an appendage of the fee of Wyresdale.
William de Lancaster died without issue, and Wyresdale, with
its dependency Great Eccleston, passed to Walter de Lindsay, the
eldest son of his second sister, Alice. The Lindsay line terminated
in the heiress Christiana de Lindsay, living in 1300, who married
Ingelram de Guynes, Lord of Coucy, in France, whose eldest son
was created earl of Bedford in 1336, and whose second and third
sons, Sir William de Coucy and Robert de Coucy, held Great
Eccleston as part of Wyresdale, their inheritance, in 1346.
The widow of Sir William de Coucy conveyed her portion
of Great Eccleston in marriage to Sir John de Coupland, and the
remainder was then held by Baldwin de Guynes and Joan, the
heiress of John de Rigmayden. The whole of the township, with
the exception of certain lands rented by the convent of Deulacres,[2]
descended in the manner above described from William de
Lancaster, through the Lindsays and Guynes or Coucys, to
Coupland, Baldwin de Guynes, and Joan Rigmayden, and subsequently
to their heirs. Amongst the Familiæ Lancastrienses
there are two families of Ecclestons, one of which is described as
of Eccleston, near Preston, and the other of Eccleston simply, the
latter doubtless being the Ecclestons who were seated at Great
Eccleston Hall anterior to the Stanleys, the occupants in the
seventeenth century, whose pedigree will be found, with others, in
a former chapter of this volume. The Ecclestons, of Eccleston,
near Preston, would belong to the place of that name in the
Hundred of Leyland. Thomas Stanley, an illegitimate son of
the fourth earl of Derby, settled, about 1600, at Great Eccleston
Hall, which, together with the estate, was probably purchased;
