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'''SCARISBRICK''' -- a [[village]] in [[Lancashire]], [[England]]. |
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Scarisbrick is a [[village]] in West Lancashire, [[England]]. It is exceptionally fertile and houses the hamlets of Bescar & Pinfold. It also boasts a Rainbow Trout Fishery, and an 18-Hole Championship Golf Course. |
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Scarisbrick Parish, the largest in [[Lancashire]], was in early times, an area much avoided by travellers. With its vast tracts of poorly drained peat marshes and the huge lake of Martin Mere, forming its northern boundary, it was difficult terrain to cross. The original small scattered farmsteads of the parish now form the basis of today's Hamlets of Barson Green, Bescar, Carr Cross, Drummerdale, Hurlston, Pinfold, and Snape. |
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Many interesting features of Scarisbrick's past can still be seen today. The Old School House opposite the Morris Dancers (once the Maypole Inn) was built in 1809 and has, in the past, been a school, a doctor's' house, a post office, and a shop. It is a listed building and is now divided into two dwellings. The canal is now used for leisure purposes, and the Red Lion is the base for the popular Mersey Motor Boat Club. At Heaton's Bridge there remains one of the many defensive pill boxes erected as a precaution against invasion during the Second World War. |
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The Village of Scarisbrick has no actual village centre. It spreads out along the main road between Ormskirk and Southport. |
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'''SCARISBRICK HALL''' -- This beautiful house is situated on the site of the ancestral home of the Scarisbrick family, that dates back to the time of King Stephen. The present building, considered to be one of the finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture in the country, was designed by the Flemish architect, [[August Pugin]] and completed in 1867. Its most notable feature is the 100-foot tower, which strongly resembles the well-known clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, and is visible from many miles around. |
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''Descriptions courtesy of Lancashire Parish Council'' |
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==Scarisbrick - The Family Name== |
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The English surname Scarisbrick, also found as Scarsbrick, Scarsbrook, Scarasbrick, and Scarrisbrick, is local in origin, belonging to that category of surnames derived from the name of the place where an original bearer dwelt or where he once held land. In this instance, therefore, the surname signifies simply "(descendant of) one who hails from Scarisbrick", this being the name of the township in the Lancashire parish of Ormskirk, in what was formerly known as the West Derby Hundred. The placename itself comes from the Old Norse, and literally denotes "(the Norseman called) Skar's hill-slope." Scarisbrick appears to have been a village of some size during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, being first mentioned c.1200, with the first person known to have had a bye-name derived from it being Gilbert de Scaresbrec in the early thirteenth century. Succeeded by his son Walter, his family continued to hold Scarisbrick for centuries to come, and the historian Richard McKinley notes that "Most, and possibly all, the people named Scarisbrick found in Lancashire during the Middle Ages were members of the land-owning family." (The surnames of Lancashire, English Surnames Series, IV). |
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References to the name after this date include one to Thomas Scarysbrig, Doctor of Divinity registered at the University of Oxford in 1508, and one to the marriage of Anthony Scarisbrick, mercer of London, to Jane Glascocke in 1615. The surname did not in fact become prolific until the late sixteenth century, when it multiplied in the parish of Ormskirk, spreading from there, albeit in small numbers, to the neighbouring parishes, such as Halsall and West Derby. Finally, it is interesting to note that when it reached London, the name became Scarysbrig, and also that it was among the first surnames to reach the New World, a list of passengers on the ship Paul, bound for St. Christopher's out of London in April, 1635, including one William Scarisbrick. The arms described below were first awarded to William Scarisbrick, High Sheriff of Lancaster in 1839. |
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BLAZON OF ARMS: Gules three mullets in bend between two bendlets engrailed argent. |
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CREST: A dove sable beaked and legged gules holding in the beak an olive branch proper. |
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ORIGIN: England. |
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'''SCARISBRICK''' -- a family name. |
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'''SCARISBRICK HALL''' -- a large hall in Scarisbrick, designed by the architect, [[August Pugin]]. |
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==External links== |
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* [http://scarisbrickfamily.homestead.com/Hall.html scarisbrickfamily.homestead.com] |
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Revision as of 00:45, 21 February 2005
Scarisbrick - The Village
Scarisbrick is a village in West Lancashire, England. It is exceptionally fertile and houses the hamlets of Bescar & Pinfold. It also boasts a Rainbow Trout Fishery, and an 18-Hole Championship Golf Course.
Scarisbrick Parish, the largest in Lancashire, was in early times, an area much avoided by travellers. With its vast tracts of poorly drained peat marshes and the huge lake of Martin Mere, forming its northern boundary, it was difficult terrain to cross. The original small scattered farmsteads of the parish now form the basis of today's Hamlets of Barson Green, Bescar, Carr Cross, Drummerdale, Hurlston, Pinfold, and Snape.
Many interesting features of Scarisbrick's past can still be seen today. The Old School House opposite the Morris Dancers (once the Maypole Inn) was built in 1809 and has, in the past, been a school, a doctor's' house, a post office, and a shop. It is a listed building and is now divided into two dwellings. The canal is now used for leisure purposes, and the Red Lion is the base for the popular Mersey Motor Boat Club. At Heaton's Bridge there remains one of the many defensive pill boxes erected as a precaution against invasion during the Second World War.
The Village of Scarisbrick has no actual village centre. It spreads out along the main road between Ormskirk and Southport.
SCARISBRICK HALL -- This beautiful house is situated on the site of the ancestral home of the Scarisbrick family, that dates back to the time of King Stephen. The present building, considered to be one of the finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture in the country, was designed by the Flemish architect, August Pugin and completed in 1867. Its most notable feature is the 100-foot tower, which strongly resembles the well-known clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, and is visible from many miles around.
Descriptions courtesy of Lancashire Parish Council
Scarisbrick - The Family Name
The English surname Scarisbrick, also found as Scarsbrick, Scarsbrook, Scarasbrick, and Scarrisbrick, is local in origin, belonging to that category of surnames derived from the name of the place where an original bearer dwelt or where he once held land. In this instance, therefore, the surname signifies simply "(descendant of) one who hails from Scarisbrick", this being the name of the township in the Lancashire parish of Ormskirk, in what was formerly known as the West Derby Hundred. The placename itself comes from the Old Norse, and literally denotes "(the Norseman called) Skar's hill-slope." Scarisbrick appears to have been a village of some size during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, being first mentioned c.1200, with the first person known to have had a bye-name derived from it being Gilbert de Scaresbrec in the early thirteenth century. Succeeded by his son Walter, his family continued to hold Scarisbrick for centuries to come, and the historian Richard McKinley notes that "Most, and possibly all, the people named Scarisbrick found in Lancashire during the Middle Ages were members of the land-owning family." (The surnames of Lancashire, English Surnames Series, IV).
References to the name after this date include one to Thomas Scarysbrig, Doctor of Divinity registered at the University of Oxford in 1508, and one to the marriage of Anthony Scarisbrick, mercer of London, to Jane Glascocke in 1615. The surname did not in fact become prolific until the late sixteenth century, when it multiplied in the parish of Ormskirk, spreading from there, albeit in small numbers, to the neighbouring parishes, such as Halsall and West Derby. Finally, it is interesting to note that when it reached London, the name became Scarysbrig, and also that it was among the first surnames to reach the New World, a list of passengers on the ship Paul, bound for St. Christopher's out of London in April, 1635, including one William Scarisbrick. The arms described below were first awarded to William Scarisbrick, High Sheriff of Lancaster in 1839.
BLAZON OF ARMS: Gules three mullets in bend between two bendlets engrailed argent.
CREST: A dove sable beaked and legged gules holding in the beak an olive branch proper.
ORIGIN: England.
External links
Websites dedicated to the Scarisbrick name:
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