OVER WYRE COMPRISES PREESALL-WITH-HACKENSALL, PILLING, STALMINE, OUT RAWCLIFFE AND HAMBLETON
IN 1400 THE POPULATION OF LANCASHIRE WAS LESS THAN 10,000. TODAY MORE THAN 12,000 PEOPLE ARE REGISTERED AT THE OVER WYRE MEDICAL CENTRE
GEOFFREY THE CROSSBOWMAN WAS INSTALLED AS THE LORD OF PREESALL-WITH-HACKENSALL IN 1189 AND HIS DESCENDANTS STILL LIVE AT PARROX HALL
THE EARLIEST REFERENCE TO PARROX HALL IS IN A DOCUMENT DATED 1456
IN 1456, THE MANOR OF PREESALL-WITH-HACKENSALL WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN 4 DAUGHTERS, THE ELDEST OF WHOM SETTLED AT PARROX HALL
IN 1690, KATHERINE FYFFE OF PARROX, HEIRESS OF THE MANOR OF PREESALL-WITH-HACKENSALL, MARRIED JOHN ELLETSON
