Longrigg Green NY136002
(Also known as Langrigg Green, Langregreen, Longrigg Cottages)

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Occupied by Nicholas Hartley at the time of the Percy Survey of 1578 and the Eskdale 24 book of 1587.

Nicholas Hartley - tenement, barn & other buildings, orchard + garden + croft adj. (0.5a), the Holm + the Great Field + the Guddie Field (3 closes, c4a), 2 parocks (1a), Moor Inge (meadow close, c1a 1r), Crookt Acre (close, 1a), the How (close, 3r), the Green (meadow close, 1a 0.5r), Long Lee (parcel of ground, 3r), parcel of waste & wood ground 1a), with "sufficient common of pasture": rent 8/-, also 1 improvement in the Craggs (1a 1r): 4d, a parcel in the Bang Garth: 13d, moulture & walker: 7d "and for bromeale (5 for license of brewing)": 18d. Total 11/6 yearly ²

A Nicholas Hartley of Miterdale who died in 1627 might have been the same Nicholas Hartley, but is more likely to have been his son or grandson since some of children are still young in 1627.

Henry Hartley was admitted in 1627 to a property in Miterdale following the death of his father William Hartley. The rent of the property was 12/1. The rent for Longrigg Green in 1578 was 11/6.

 William Hartley is tenant in 1633 but the property passes to Henry Hartley in 1639. William's son William is left two tenements and a William Hartley dies in 1652 at Miterdalehead. William's younger brother, Nicholas may have moved to Church House at Boot. I have found no trace of the third brother, James.

Henry Hartley of Langregreene had a son John baptized in 1627.

A William Nicholson of Longriggreen was left a legacy by William Viccars in 1661. Was there an exchange of farms between the Nicholsons and the Hartleys?

The Russel family appear in Eskdale and in Longrig Green in 1731 and  remained in occupation of Longrig Green until at least 1865. In 1797 John Russell proposed a carding mill at Longrig, but at some stage this was changed to a Bobbin Mill - which was eventually sold to a Matthew Elliot in 1865.

In the 1861 directory of Cumberland, Jeremiah Russel was farming Longrigg Green whilst his brother(?) William described himself as "grocer, linen and woollen draper, bobbin manufacturer, and postmaster".

The Bobbin Mill became, in due course, Longrigg Farm and the old farm became Longrigg Cottages.

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