Hackensall Hall - with extracts from Brian Hughes
Hackensall Hall dates back to at
least 1190 when it was first recorded as Hacunesho, but, if it’s really
ancient history that you’re after, then in 1926 around five hundred
Roman coins were unearthed from the grounds there in a leather purse.
About fifty of them can be found at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool - let us know if they still have them hidden - or like most things of value - sold on or in a box away from history scholars.
Hacun, of course, is a Norse name and the ‘ho’ of Hacunesho is also Norse, referring to a burial mound, making Hackensall ‘the burial place of a Norseman called Hacun’. And where there’s boggarts (especially helpful ones) there’s usually a keeill involved. Exactly where the keeill was it’s now difficult to say, although a suspected Roman road (such as you’d generally find next to a keeill) runs from Hackensall Brow to the base of Preesall Hill via Parrox Hall.
Interesting to note - that some locals still have the coins that are passed from family members to the next ....
Hacun, of course, is a Norse name and the ‘ho’ of Hacunesho is also Norse, referring to a burial mound, making Hackensall ‘the burial place of a Norseman called Hacun’. And where there’s boggarts (especially helpful ones) there’s usually a keeill involved. Exactly where the keeill was it’s now difficult to say, although a suspected Roman road (such as you’d generally find next to a keeill) runs from Hackensall Brow to the base of Preesall Hill via Parrox Hall.
Interesting to note - that some locals still have the coins that are passed from family members to the next ....
Not forgetting the boggart horse.
ReplyDeleteThat indeed will be covered in the horse edition of the blog !!
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