Welcome to Parrox Hall
Parrox Hall in Preesall is one of the oldest houses in Lancashire. Throughout its
long history, it has been continuously occupied by the same family, descendants
of the original Lord of the Manor of Preesall-with-Hackensall, Geoffrey the Crossbowman
(Galfridus Arbalastarius), a Norman soldier who was installed by Prince John in
1189 and granted six carucates of land.
Most of today’s Parrox Hall dates from the early seventeenth century but a
small part of the house is much older. The first reference to it is in a document
of 1456 but it is certain that there was a house on the present site long before
that. Twenty-six generations after the Crossbowman, and despite the division of
the manor of Preesall-with-Hackensall between four daughters in the fifteenth century
and the passage of the estate through the female line on three other occasions,
the present occupant of Parrox Hall is still the direct descendant of the original
Lord of the Manor.
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