Lower Wat Ing, Norland

House dated 1664.

Early owners included

• John Mitchell
• The Waterhouse family
• In the 18th century, it was owned by Mary Morton, later Mrs Richard Hopwood.

  She passed it to her niece Anne Greame and her nephew Henry Greame, and it was handed down the Greame family

• In 1841,
  • James Brocklehurst
  • Joshua Smith

• In 1851, Henry Horatio Greame sold the estate to Joseph Priestley Edwards, who passed it to his younger son, Lea Priestley Edwards
• In 1875, he sold the estate to James Dyson of Abbotsroyd, Barkisland
• The estate then passed to his son, Charles Jessop Dyson, and his nephew William Dyson
• To settle a family dispute, the estate was sold at auction and was bought by John Maude
• In 1899, his daughter bought the estate from her mother's executors.

  In 1920, she sold it to the Marsden Brothers, Sowerby Bridge

• In 1945, they sold it to George Edwin Gregory.

  Gregory rented the property to the Buggy's, an Irish family who subsequently emigrated to Tasmania. Then, Gregory sold it to the Sutherland family

The various owners sold parts of the estate to the Manchester & Leeds Railway Company, and others parts were taken over by the company.

See Upper Wat Ing

This & associated entries use material which was kindly contributed by Pauline Martin

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