Extracts from The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lanoaster. By the late Idward Baines, edited by James Croston, IoS.A. Pub. by John Heywood, 1891. 5 po1s•
vol. IV, P•99
Hundred of Blackburn-Ribohester Parish•
oi the parish church, are
and Cottam
Hall, or Dilworth Hall
dow a lorm bpuse, but for many generations the residence of the Cottams•
All the anolent families are either extinct or no longer
resident except the Patohetts.
vol. T, p•345
Hundred of Amounderness--Preston Par1sh•
This parish contains eight townships besides the township
of Preston--namely: Lea, Ashton,
forming
one township; Broughton,
Grimsargh with Brock-
holes, Ribbleton, and Fishwick.
(are)
Lea, Ashton, Ingol, and Cottam
These four hamlets,/situated
to the NW of Preston..................Cottam gave name to an anolent
family, of whom Geoffrey de Cottam. in a deed without date, acknowLedge s himself to hold some land here of H. de Hydok,
by an
annual
rent of 15d and half-a-pound
of cumins (Kuerdon's Manuscript
Collettion, vol, 1y, 101.0 25) probably erected by a descendent
a purchase from
Lord Gardner and Mrs. Clayton)
of Geoffrey de Cottam, is constructed purely of timber and 13 property of William Cross, of Red Scar Catholio chapel at Cottam, built in 1801.
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