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Lancashire Historic Town SurveyHornbyperiod (Farrer and Brownbill 1912, 192). The market was held every Friday and the faironce a year (Mannex 1851, 532). By the later sixteenth century the market was held onMondays (Chippindall 1939, 27) and this was still the case a century later when, accordingto Ogilby, the market was not considered to be of much merit (Farrer and Brownbill 1912,191).It is unclear for how long Hornby was considered to have urban status. It may have ceasedto be regarded as a functional town by the late sixteenth century, although the settlementwas known at least locally as a market town(Chippindall 1939, 27). Moreover, at least aremnant of burgage tenure was still recognisedin a survey of the Hornby Castle estates in thesixteenth century (Chippindall 1939, 35). In1626 a market hall was built, and it wasgenerally referred to as a town hall (White1986, 3).Plate 1: The market crossBy the mid-nineteenth century the burgageplots within the north-west quarter of Hornbyhad long ceased to have any integrity. Thereorganisation of the properties in this part ofthe settlement is, like the ruination of the markethall, a physical indicator of Hornby’s urbandecline. It is likely that this reorganisation wascompleted in the eighteenth century as much ofit relates to the creation of the Hornby Hallestate, the principal buildings of which date tothe mid-eighteenth century(www.imagesofengland.co.uk).Hornby did not develop an industrial base and itfunctioned as only a minor commercial centreduring the nineteenth century. However,Hornby did retain some importance as alivestock market for much of the century,reflected in the fact that cattle pens wereerected near the railway station (OS 18941:2500). The markets and fairs, however, hadceased by 1912 (Farrer and Brownbill 1912,191).© Lancashire County Council 2006 2
Lancashire Historic Town SurveyHornby1. INTRODUCTION1.1 Project backgroundThis report is an archaeological and historic urban landscape assessment of Hornby andforms part of the Lancashire Historic Town Survey. The survey comprises an assessmentof 33 towns within the county, with a report produced for each town.The Lancashire project is part of English Heritage’s national Extensive Urban SurveyProgramme, which grew out of the Monuments Protection Programme. This still ongoingprogramme aims to re-evaluate the national archaeological resource and to providecomprehensive, rigorous and consistent base-line information against which research,regeneration and land use planning objectives may be set. The recognition that urbanareas themselves are archaeological monuments has led to a shift away from theidentification of individual sites within towns to a more holistic appreciation of the entirehistoric urban fabric.The Lancashire project is being undertaken by Lancashire County Council with EgertonLea Consultancy and is funded by both the County and English Heritage. It is based on asurvey commissioned by Lancashire County Council and carried out by the LancasterUniversity Archaeological Unit in 1997, which resulted in the compilation of the LancashireExtensive Urban Archaeological Survey Assessment Report in January 1998. This reportwas used to develop a specification for the assessment of individual towns, the LancashireExtensive Urban Survey Project Design, which was submitted by The Archaeology andHeritage Service of the Environment Directorate of Lancashire County Council to EnglishHeritage in January 2001 (LCC 2001). The full project commenced later in 2001 with thecompilation of first stage reports by Egerton Lea on the pre-1900 historic elements of eachtown. To this the Council’s Archaeology and Heritage team have added post-1900 dataand an overall assessment of the nature and significance of the resource, to produce thisreport.1.2 Project aimsThe principal aim of the project has been to review and evaluate the archaeological andhistorical resource for the 33 defined towns within the post-1974 county of Lancashire. Theresource was identified and assessed for significance, and strategies were proposed for itsmanagement.Key objectives included the• quantification of previous archaeological work• analysis of urban origins and development• identification and assessment of the broad historic character of each town• assessment of the potential for the preservation of significant archaeologicaldeposits, and the• identification of future research objectives.The assessment was then to be used to assist in the review of the effectiveness of currentplanning policies for the future conservation of the archaeological resource, and to helpdefine new archaeological and conservation guidance strategies for each town. TheHistoric Town Survey for Lancashire forms part of the developing Lancashire HistoricEnvironment Record Centre (an expanded version of the Lancashire Sites and MonumentsRecord). Here it is maintained as a nested dataset amongst the other conservationdatasets used to assist in planning decision-making within the county (LCC 2001).© Lancashire County Council 2006 3
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