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FOUR WALKS IN & AROUND
WIBSEY
with historical notes and sketches
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Walk Number One from the White Swan to the Working Men's
Club
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Start in the High Street at the White Swan Inn, in earlier times occasionally
used as a courtroom for the Lords of the Manor dealing with petty crime.
The barrel-vaulted cellars are said to have been used as a local lock-up
in case of need. Go round to the back of the inn, where underneath a blocked
up window can be seen a lant spout, used in the collection of urine into
a barrel placed under the spout. Ammonia was needed in the production of
cloth and urine was the easiest way to obtain it. Early census returns note
dwellings under the inn and also on the south and probably the west side
of the yard. In 1841 David Rhodes, a water hawker, lived under the inn.
Return to the High Street and begin to walk eastwards towards Holroyd Hill
but stop a minute to think about the large open space. A hundred years ago
this area was filled with buildings. The Tithe Barn stood here and also
the Black Dog Inn and it was in this inn that the auctions for the two major
land sales had taken place. The Tithe Barn had, of course, been a very necessary
part of an estate when tithes were still collected but in the 1840's, by
Act of Parliament, such tithes were superceded by cash payments.
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Holroyd Hill the Salvation Army building replaces the Wesleyan Chapel built
in 1838. In 1851 the Chapel was taken over by the Wesleyan Reformers, as
a consequence of which the New Wesleyan Chapel was erected in the High Street
in 1870. (This is mentioned in Walk Two). Continue down to Warburton Place
on the south (your right) side. Notice the large house with two unequal
gables and the attached house to its left. Joseph Warburton bought land
here in 1753 and built a house, though probably very little remains of the
original. Joseph's son and then his grandson were apothecaries and his great-grandson
was a registered General Practitioner from the start of the British Medical
Council. Then a nephew continued the practice until his death in 1936. The
nephew's father had had a chemist's shop a few steps further down the hill
on the corner of the entrance to Henderson Terrace, which bears his name.
Quietly take a look at this peaceful backwater off a very busy main road.
Continue downhill then stop opposite the -top of Wibsey Bank. The substantial
building on the righthand corner of the Bank was originally a Co-operative
Society as can be seen from the name at roof level. From, where you are
standing you can also see, on the left side of Odsal Road which itself is
a continuation of Holroyd Hill, a stone built house with the gable end abutting
the pavement. This, or rather an earlier building, was Penny Close Farm
which with its surrounding land (now built over) was the basis of the John
Wilton Charity. When he died in 1669 John Wilton left the farm and the land
to provide an income out of which a poor man or woman of Wibsey was to receive
financial assistance each year, and any surplus income was to be paid to
the curate of the then Wibsey Chapel (now known as Holy Trinity Church,
Low Moor)
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