Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Miscellaneous Games—Archery Butts, &c.
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MISCELLANEOUS GAMES.
ARCHERY BUTTS.
The butts, or the archery ground for Burnley, was situated in that portion of Keighley Green on which the cotton-mills belonging to Messrs Spencer & Moore now stand. In those "good old days" the ley was a narrow strip of flat land, on the banks of the river Brun, bounded by a "scar" on the one hand, and by a nicely wooded steep on the other. Some old cottages still bear the name of "The Butts." "Scar Foot," and "Scar Top" are mentioned in title-deeds to property, but these have recently been modernised into Church Street.