This Month’s talk is by Owen David

Powell on the Boer War

Please enjoy.

Hello everyone and welcomeA few members braved the cold on remembrance Sunday and did the walk to the Church to lay the Wreath on behalf of the History Society last Sunday. I have never seen the Church so full. It was Wonderful and a very fitting service to those who fell in the Great wars.

History of Freckleton

The name of the village appears in the Domesday Book as "Frecheltun" and is said to derive from 'Farmstead of a man called Frecla', with Old English tun and Nordic personal name. It was one of 62 settlements to be found in the Hundred of "Agemvndrenesse" (Amounderness). Another suggested derivation is from the Anglo-Saxon word for "lusty" or "argumentative"

Freckleton supplied water to the Roman fort at Kirkham, and in the 19th century was a port for the ship building industry.

Rope and sailcloth, for the early boatbuilding industry, was made in the village for many years. Balderstone Mill, erected in 1880, was the first organised factory system in the village, its weaving shed had 320 looms, and the cloth it produced sold on the Manchester Cotton Exchange. The mills closed in 1980.

There was a water-mill, situated on the Dow Brook, from at least as early as 1427, when it was in the possession of a William Hodelliston.

It was sold for the sum of £350, in 1882, with the sole purpose of its decommission, to allow the marsh to be more effectively drained.

Until the 1920s Freckleton had a tollgate and travellers to Lytham and Preston had to pay a toll to use the turnpike road. The toll was collected at

Warton History Society

Monthly Newsletter November 2017

toll house bridge. The toll could be avoided by crossing the Dow brook and walking along the bridle way.

I can be reached at289 Lytham Road Warton

Phone 634716 or 07811140289Or you can email me dave@davidhoyle.co.uk

www.ourwarton.comDavid Hoyle

Speakers for the Season

21/11/17 Owen David PowellThe Boer War

19/12/17 Jennifer RayWe Wish You a Nostalgic Christmas

16/01/18 Mike GoslingBlackpool’s Big Freeze -The Ice Age in the Fylde

20/02/18 Tony Fowler

What a great turn out for the interesting long talk about Ray

Armstrong and his experience as a London postman Thank you for

coming