Address: Moulden Brow, Riley Green, Hoghton
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| 1845 Map |
The Hare and Hounds Inn was located on the most easterly part of the Hoghton/Riley Green area by the River Roddlesworth just before you entered Feniscowles. The building no longer stands today and was almost certainly demolished to make way for new housing in the 1890s. The 1845 map above is the only pictorial reference I can find of the pub on the stretch of road known as Moulden Brow.
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| 1824 Directory - Richard Wardley |
The earliest landlord on record was a Richard Wardley back in 1824. He was a Lancashire man born in Inskip on the Fylde and from his marriage record below in 1817 was originally a printer by trade. Having lost his first wife he remarried to Elizabeth Rigby that year who was born and bred in nearby Brindle. I imagine it was after the wedding that they took over the Hare & Hounds.
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| 1817 Marriage Richard Wardley & Elizabeth Rigby |
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| 1841 Census Richard Wardley |
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| 1851 Richard Wardley |
Burial: 11 Jan 1856 St Peter, Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Elizabeth Wardley - Age: 81 years
Abode: Hoghton
Buried by: T. Sharples
Register: Burial 1854 - 1857, Page 75, Entry 598
Source: LDS film 1849646
Burial records show that Elizabeth died in 1856 when they were still living at the Inn and I suspect Richard then moved into Blackburn making way for new tenants at the pub, the Millers.
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| 1852 Marriage of future landlord William Miller |
By 1861 William and Susannah Miller were running the Inn as the census record below attests and it was in that year that Richard Wardley's death and burial is also recorded. His place of abode, 85, Kings Street was the Sun Hotel in Blackburn, still going to this day now run by Thwaite's brewery.
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| 1861 Burial Richard Wardley Blackburn St Peters |
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| 1861 William Miller |
Petty Sessions, Yesterday (before T. B. Crosse Esq., and other magistrates.)
—William Miller, keeper of the Hare and Hounds, Hoghton, was fined 10s. and costs, for selling beer during prohibited hours Sunday.
18 July 1863 - Preston Herald - Preston, Lancashire, England
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| 1870 Probate William Miller |
After William's death Susannah continued to run the Inn and 25 acres of farm land assisted by her children.
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| 1871 Susannah Miller |
How long the family lived at the property is unknown but the building was still standing in 1892 when the below map was published but sometime in the 1870s the Miller moved into the newly built Park Hotel, a 100 yards or so down the road from the Hare & Hounds on the Sun Paper Mill site where they were to remain for the next few decades. I suspect with the rapid expansion of the paper mill businesses in Feniscowles around that time that the Nuttall & Co. Ltd brewery saw an opportunity to profit from the huge workforce now frequenting the area and built the hotel for this purpose, mothballing the Hare & Hounds in the process, which was then demolished for new homes to be built.
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| 1881 Census Park Hotel |
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| 1892 Map |
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| Housing on Moulden Brow built c.1900 |
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| 1901 Census Park Hotel |
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| 1903 Burial of Susannah Miller |
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