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Anglezarke/Limbrick - Clog Inn

Name: The Clog Inn

Address: Lee House, Leicester Mill Quarry, Anglezarke, Chorley





Lee House was the home of the Catteralls who worked the Leicester Mill Quarry and was also the site of the family's pub, the Clog Inn.  It’s thought that the pub’s name was derived from Huguenots; weavers who once inhabited the area and whose traditional footwear was clogs.

The Catterall family played a prominent role in local industry through their business at Leicester Mill Quarries in Anglezarke, which they had acquired in the mid-1700s .  A Roger Leicester of Anglezarke is thought to have owned a mill on the site earlier that century; it’s thought the quarry’s name is derived from this.  



1841 Census - Ralph Catterall


Before construction of the reservoirs

When the Anglezarke and Rivington reservoirs were constructed between 1850 and 1857 there was a unprecedented demand for stone, which saw the business prosper.  During this time the quarries were run by Ralph Catterall (b.1804) and his two sons John and James. The family are known to have owned several properties in the vicinity including Stones House, Lee House, Brooke House, Cockers Farm and a farmstead in Euxton.

1851 Census - Ralph Catterall

Following construction of the Anglezarke and Rivington reservoirs the Leicester Mill Quarries together with Brooke House and Lee House were sold by auction on 14th September 1868 at the Royal Oak Hotel in Chorley, although the family continued to run the quarry business into the 20th century presumably leasing it from the new owners.



After construction of the reservoirs

1861 Census Ralph Catterall


1871 Census Ralph Catterall

When Ralph Catterall died in 1881 his widow Mary together with their sons James and John were left to run the Inn and carry on the family business at the quarry.


Ralph Catterall Jnr. outside the Clog Inn c.1880

1881 Census Mary Catterall



1891 Census Mary Catterall



The Clog Inn aka Lee House was demolished sometime towards the end of the 1800's and story has it that the Catteralls used much of the stone to build a new property, also named Lee House opposite the Yew Tree Inn in Anglezarke. 


Much of the information and photographs for this blog entry have been sourced from the book "About Anglezarke", by M D Smith.

7 comments:

  1. Hi Richard
    I just wanted to contact you to say how thrilled I was to find information about Ralph Catterall in your blog. I have been researching my family history and Ralph Catterall was my great, great, great grandfather. I knew he was a Quarryman but didn't know which quarry or that he actually owned Leicester Mill Quarry. Thank you so much for the information.
    Caroline Donalds

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    1. Please check the updates at Pilkington Ancestry on Facebook, are we related?

      Ann PILKINGTON, daughter of Thomas PILKINGTON and Jane BRINDLE, was born on 12 July 1789
      in Anglezarke. She was christened on 20 July 1789 in Horwich. The address was: Lee Independent Chapel.
      She appeared in the census in 1851 in Heapey aged 60. The address was: Low Fold. She appeared in the
      census on 7 April 1861 in Heapey aged 70. The address was: Low Fold. On 7 April 1861 she was a Farm
      Servant in Heapey aged 70. She died in 1869 in Chorley Reg. Dist. Lancs. aged 79. She married William
      CATTERALL.


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    2. I'm afraid not Paul. The information came from some family tree research I did for a friend a couple of years back, Andy Lavin whose mum was a Catterall.

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  2. Thanks Caroline, It's always great to know the blog has helped out in family history research. A friend of mine's mother was a Catterall and lived in Heath Charnock so I did a bit of research on his family for his 50th birthday a few years back and unearthed a lot of the history then.

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  3. That's a fabulous birthday present for your friend! I am probably distantly related to him!

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  4. Hi Richard,
    Please can I send you an email. My email address is carolinedonalds@outlook.com.
    Thank you in advance.
    Caroline

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  5. Hi Richard,
    Please can I send you an email. My email address is carolinedonalds@outlook.com
    Thank you

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