Hall, Court & Grange

[auzzie]

What's the difference between them all?

[dot.hawkes]

Historically

A Hall has to have a landed estate, i.e. originally crown owned lands that would have been conferred on a servant to the crown to make then landed gentry/nobility/

A grange is a farmhouse surrounded by farm buildings, possibly lived in by a squire or yeoman farmer.

A Court is a group of buildings in a town setting with an inner yard, which the building enclose, and the resident could be anyone using it as a permanent or seasonal residence/

[auzzie]

Thanks Dot, thought you might know : ) Cheers.

[dot.hawkes]

My Great grandad used to have Bradley Hall at Burtonwood during WW11, it has a deep moat round it and a priest hole behind the kitchen range and two bosses at the top of the stairs toi the Piers legh family.

My gt gt gt gt gt gt grandfather had Hulme hall in Cheshire but ICI have the land now, i have the Will though.

I grew up in a house built on the foundations of the old Cross Hall, home of the Earls of Stanley in Ormskirk.

I was born in a place on the Yorkshire moors called Great House and it was built from the stone of a hall demolished in 1889.

[Tatty Rollox]

... does this take you back a bit, Dotty?

[auzzie]

Blimey Dot. Bet your family tree is an interesting read!

[dot.hawkes]

hiya tatty, i have those pics the lady that does the Burtonwood site emailed me them, that window on the top floor in the middle is where my dad sat with his aunt in 1925 when the black horses pulled the hearse thru the archway for his 18 month old sister barbara's funeral, she died of meningitis at bradley .