Hollinghow, Hollin How
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1867 Ordnance Survey - Click on map for larger area
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In 1578, The Percy Survey gives the following information (with acknowledgement to "Past Presented") regarding Henry Nicholson's tenancy - almost certainly Hollinghow as identified in the Eskdale 24 book of 1587.
Henry Nicholson - tenement & barn etc., moiety of croft adj. (3r), in Eller crook (1a), "in Woodground in the said close" (c1a), moiety "of certain wood ground" (3r), with common: rent 18d. "a new improvement": 4.5d, moulture & walker: 5d. Total 2/3.5 yearly
Henry Nicholson (as above) [i.e. probably a second tenement at Hollinghow]- tenement with barn & hemp garth, moiety of croft adj. (3r), the Old Croft (close, 1.5a), Lady Croft (close, 0.5a), moiety "of certain wood ground" (3r), with common: rent 18d, moiety of an improvement (1r): rent 1.5d, moiety of another improvement (2.5a): rent 3d, "a garth called Lang garth": 5d. Total 2/3.5 yearly
and in the Eskdale 24 book of 1587:-
For sheep drifts and heafs
Edward Woodend & Chris. Hartley at Yeathouse; John & Robt. Dickonson at Randlehow to drive same way as Langregreen tenants as far as Bangarth. Hollinghow tenant to drive up his own ground to Bangarth. Thence all three: ..."over Starbeck green and over Atkinson's Foard and up Atkinson's Gate till they come forth at the Gatehead even against Hinging stone and to drive to the Green between the Gillheads and to leave them at any place within their own Ground, the Hinging stone to be the Groundmark between Bakerstead and them at the Netherside, and on the Westside, the third between the Nethermost Greingill, and Stephenson's Fould to be the Ground-mark, between Bakerstead and them, And when their Goods are on the Sunside of Mite that they shall drive their Sheep to the Hight of Longhow."
and for Cow Pasture and Cattle drifts
HOLLINGHOW
"Henry Nicholson" ... "up his own Bank and up Bangarth, and forth at Sleapestone, and let them go."
Henry Nicholson of Hollinghowe and Yeathouse died in 1627, leaving a will. His son, William Nicholson of Hollinghow, had died in 1612 naming a son, Henry, and three daughters, Jenet, Isabell and Agnes. Henry had at least two children before 1628, one of them John in 1627, and a son William in 1631.
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Henry Nicholson was tenant at the time of the General Fine of 1633 but in 1650 the property passed to William Moore.
Sometime after 1650 Hollinghow passed to the Hartleys.
John Hartley (b1699?) had daughters Sarah (1727), Hannah (1730) (died 1731), Elizabeth (1732), a son Thomas (1735), and a daughter Ruth (1738).
A Thomas Hartley died at Hollinhow in 1747, and John Hartley and Isabell Hartley died in 1754 and 1757 respectively.
Thomas Hartley had a son John in 1772
1893 William Grant Yates bought part of Hollin How (along with part of Randlehow) from Jane Relph