Edward Townley Standish (Lord of the Manor 1778-1807)

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1763 Hic Bibi - Here I drank	1778	1797 Mary Smalley's School for Girls

As we come nearer to our own times more documentary record of the Standish land holdings is available and among the properties belonging to Edward Towneley Standish the following estates and farms are still recognisable:

• The Parsonage or Rectory Farm
• Lark Hill
• Bessie's Well Farm
• Moody House
• the Black Horse in Church Street
• land round Hic Bibe Well
• Wakefield Farm and one nearby called Lower House Farm
• land at Bradley and Pepper Lane
• much of High Street
• the Wheatsheaf
• South Villa by Southlands
• Grannum's Hey (where Prospect House stands)
• Cat'i'th'Window Cottage and Farm
• the Hermitage
• Strickland House (then known as New House)
• Highfield
• Round Moor House
• Wigan Lane House (later known as Limes Farm)
• Limbrick House
• Boar's Head Inn
• Mere Oaks and Lurdin Lane Farm
• Jolley Mill
• Bowling Green Farm
• Primrose Hill Farm
• Gunnell's Fold Farm
• Robin Hill Farm
• Dam House
• Jane Standish's House
• Windy Harbour Estate

Edward also owned the land called Brimelow and, in addition to the park, a considerable part of Standish Lower Ground.

Lists of tenants and the rents they paid are given in the estate account books now in Wigan Library. Further documents dating from around 1500 have now been acquired by the Library from the firm of London solicitors who were acting for the Standish family when the last lord of the manor died in 1920. These documents passed into the keeping of the Wigan Library about the end of 1970. There are documents relating to the Church leys dated 1748/9 and to Standish Manor about the same time.

Accompanying the documents in Wigan Library is a plan of Standish in 1764 and documents relating to the Wigan to Chorley turnpike road. There are letters written to various people by Edward Towneley Standish concerning a housing shortage I Standish and to houses built to remedy this want. Other correspondence concerns the Strickland family with whom there were ties by marriage. Edward's sister, Cecilia, married Charles Strickland, son of Thomas Strickland of Sizergh, her brother, Ralph, having married Henrietta Strickland of Catterick.

Edward died in 1807, and as his brothers had already died and he had no surviving children, the estate passed to his sister's son, Thomas Strickland, who assumed by sign manual the name Thomas Strickland Standish.^[1]

1. ↑ Eleanor Johnson, The Standish Family 1189-1920 (Published by the Standish Local History Group, 1972)