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Gunhouse (501A. 1R. 11p.) is a freehold estate, mostly belonging
to Dr. Schofield, the Rev.Wm. Adamthwaite, and Mrs. Bower; and Coleby
is the property of Sir Robt. Sheffeild, and was formerly a
seat of the Downs and Otter families, but the hall is now a farmhouse.
On the Trent, near Gunhouse, is the farm called Neap-house, belonging
to Sir. R. Sheffield; and 2 miles E.S.E. of Flixborough, are the
two farms called Coneysby, where there was formerly a large rabbit
warren. West Halton Church (St. Etheldreda,) is a neat Gothic structure,
erected in 1695, after the old one had been destroyed by fire.
A vestry and gallery have recently been added to it. The rectory,
valued in K.B. at £16, and now at £886, is in the patronage
of the Bishop of Norwich, and incumbency of the Rev. W.F.Drake,
who has a neat but ancient residence, near which is a large mound,
shaded with large elms, and supposed to be a tumulus. The tithes
of Halton were commuted at the enclosure in 1772, for 300 acres
of land, and those of Coleby and Gunhouse have recently been commuted
for corn-rents. The Church Estate consists of 16 acres of land ,
and seven tenements, which have been appropriated to the reparation
of the church from time immemorial;but there is paid out of the
rent 20s., its the interest of £25, left to the poor by Rev.
Thos. Pateson, in 1776, and vested with the churchwardens. Here
is a National School, and a Primitive Methodist chapel; and at Gunhouse,
is a Chapel of ease, erected in 1659, and rebuilt in 1840; and also
a National School and a Wesleyan Chapel.
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