Lang Survey – analysis

Land holdings in the Lang survey ranked by statute acre
The reference number refers to the survey. Corporation lands are treated separately below. There are some minor discrepancies between the Lang survey and the plan, which are discussed here:
Introduction
The survey.

Most of the holdings are very small and are spread around the township as can be seen from the figures above and below.

Ref No	Owner	Acreage
76	Mr John Atherton of Walton esq	111.58
10	John Fletcher esq	90.49
63	Mr Alderman Pedder	82.73
17	Nicholas Winckley esq	82.26
21	Lady Stourton’s Land	54.33
65	Wm Hardman esq	51.88
37	Henry Rishton esq	51.05
6	Mr Mauleverer’s Land	49.88
87	Mr Edwards	48.01
28	W. E. Shawe esq	46.18
41	John Atherton of Prescott esq	44.71
27	Revd Mr Gibson	44.65
85	John Graystock	44.27
66	Messrs Hardman and Sharpe	42.72
26	Miss Stanley	39.20
43	Late Revd Mr Pedder	35.10
84	Mrs Charnock	34.63
1	Garlicks Heirs Land	34.39
20	Late Dr Bushell	32.07
83	Henry Burchell esq	23.96
13	Mr Walshman’s Heirs	21.06
36	Mr Thos Pedder	19.41
45	Mr John Wilkinson	17.65
86	Mr Roger Charnock, Fulwood	16.78
7	Late Mr Luke Astley’s Heirs Miss Astley’s Part	15.79
8	Mr Thomas Lorimer	14.41
29	Mr Thos Langton	13.22
48	Mr Loveday	13.12
9	Joseph Crofts	12.73
88	Captain Dalrymple	12.13
18	Messrs Gibson and Halstead	11.70
4	Thomas Fowler	11.05
11	Lawrence Rawstorne esq	10.98
12	Mr Astley late Mathers	10.60
15	Mr William Shaw jun	10.41
78	Mr Meadows	9.43
16	Lord Stanley	9.42
14	Mr Joseph Myers’s Land	8.53
80	Mr Chadwick	8.50
64	Mr Grimshaw	7.95
38	L Walmisley King	7.14
75	Mrs Chew	7.02
3	Mr John Watson	7.00
19	Hutton School Land	6.60
59	Mr Gorst	6.00
33	Mr James Makon	5.98
7	Late Mr Luke Astley’s Heirs Mr Asheton’s Part	5.85
68	Longridge Chapel	5.67
58	Mrs Simpson	5.66
53	Mr Richd Butler	5.49
30	Late Mrs Derbyshire’s	5.29
47	Mr John Harrison	5.22
42	Henry Burchall	5.14
89	Henry Lutwidge esq	4.86
74	Mr Henry Atherton	4.33
71	Mr Ralph Watson	4.32
54	Mr Wm Harrison	4.31
32	Mr Wm Talbott	4.07
39	Mr Thomas Woodcock	3.93
5	Miss Pearson	3.78
2	Mr Richard Ingham	3.52
72	Walmsley’s Heirs	3.22
73	Late Mr Drinkwater’s	3.16
70	Mr Thos Aldred	3.09
61	Penwortham Poor	2.75
82	Mr Hankinson	2.63
22	Miss Goodday	2.33
77	Mr Edw: Bolton	2.29
92	Mr J. Wakefield	2.20
46	Peter Hodgkinson	2.17
90	Mr Edwd Wall’s Heirs	2.14
44	Mr Robert Farrer	2.14
69	Mr Bickerstaffe	2.13
56	Preston School	1.95
93	Late Jas Hodgkinson	1.85
95	Rowland Plant	1.85
34	James Cheetham	1.77
60	Wm Duckworth	1.75
49	Miss Walton	1.75
24	Mr Thomas Astley	1.59
67	Miss Gradwell’s	1.59
31	Mr Nich:s Starkie	1.47
35	Abraham Ellithorne	1.45
81	Thomas Hummer	1.38
62	Edmd Parkinson	1.07
40	Mr Alderman Atherton	1.02
51	Late Mr Molyneux	0.97
91	Edwd Blackburn’s Executors	0.95
52	John Richardson	0.79
55	Isaac Crook	0.71
94	Late Hinton’s	0.65
57	Brewery	0.59
23	Mrs Ann Gregson	0.47
50	Mr Gornall’s Executors	0.07

Corporation Land

Land holdings of the lessees of Corporation land in statute acres. A field named New Marsh Meadow on the plan in the area of the Corporation’s 17^th-century marsh reclamation and measuring roughly 2.8 acres does not seem to be in the survey. The reclamation is discussed elsewhere.

Lessee	acreage
Mr Henry Brewer Holm Slack	59.63
Late Jas Hodgkinson’s Tenement	17.91
Mr J. Craike	12.53
Mr John Grimshaw	6.09
Mr Robt. Farrer	5.77
Mr Jno Watson	5.04
Mr Thomas Bullen	4.91
Mr G. Shawe esq	4.56
Nich. Winckley esq	1.02
Mr H Bickerstaffe	0.73
Total	118.19

Land holdings by acreage

The majority of landowners in the Lang survey had very small holdings, and often merely plots of land. Of the 95 landowners in the survey (including the corporation) eight had plots of less than a statute acre, 59 less than 10 acres and 73 less than 20 acres. Only five had estates larger than 60 acres and only two more than 100 acres (John Atherton of Walton and the corporation). An indication of the dispersal of land holdings in the township is shown by the fact that of the 104 owners and lessees (of corporation land; one, Nicholas Winckley, was both an owner and a lessee) in the survey some 31 had only one plot of land. Of the rest, 37 had less than five plots, 16 less than 10 plots and only 21 ten or more plots.

Rental values