Rossall

Coordinates: 53°53′53″N 3°02′20″W / 53.898°N 3.039°W / 53.898; -3.039
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Rossall
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townFLEETWOOD
Postcode districtFY7
Dialling code01253
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FireLancashire
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Lancashire
53°53′53″N 3°02′20″W / 53.898°N 3.039°W / 53.898; -3.039

Rossall is a settlement in Lancashire, England and a suburb of the market town of Fleetwood. It is situated on a coastal plain called The Fylde. Blackpool Tramway runs through Rossall, with two stations: Rossall School on Broadway and Rossall Square on South strand.

Early history

Before the

Earl Tostig, the brother of King Harold II.[1] In the Domesday Book of 1086, the manor was listed as Rushale, and in later documents as Rossall (1212) and Roshale (1228).[1] In 1086, the area of Rossall was assessed at two carucates of land.[1]

King

Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. Cardinal William Allen was born at Rossall in 1532. Dieulacres Abbey was dissolved in the 1530s and Rossall was sold to Thomas Fleetwood. Later, when George Allen's grandson Richard died, Thomas Fleetwood's son Edmund evicted Richard's widow and daughters, and they went to live with Richard's brother, Cardinal Allen.[2]

Rossall Hall

In 1733, Margaret Fleetwood, heiress to the Rossall estate, married Roger Hesketh of North Meols and Tulketh Hall, bringing Rossall into the Hesketh family.[4] The couple chose to live at Rossall and it is likely that Roger Hesketh built the hall that existed into the 20th century.[4] Previous houses on the estate were said to have been eroded or swept away by the sea. A chart drawn for Hesketh in 1737 shows a ruined "Old Rossall" slightly north of Rossall Hall.[5]

According to John Martin Robinson in A Guide to the Country Houses of the North West, the 18th century hall was a "great rambling whitewashed house", with irregular wings.[6] By the 19th century, it had five family bedrooms, nursery rooms, a drawing room, dining room, libraries and an organ room, as well as servant accommodation and service rooms.[7] The grounds included a workshop, four stables, a shippon, a coach house, an ice house and a gazebo.[7]

By the 1830s, the house and estate was in the ownership of Edmund's descendant

MP for Preston, who later changed his name to (Sir) Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood. By 1844, Hesketh had run into serious financial difficulties. He had engaged Frederick Kemp as his agent and the two had considerable financial differences of opinion. Kemp borrowed against the estate revenues to finance the expansion of Fleetwood, and Hesketh became over-leveraged. He was obliged to sell much of the estate, together with Rossall Hall itself. The Hall was taken over by Rev. St. Vincent Beechey and converted into a Church of England boarding school, designed as a Northern equivalent of Beechey's Marlborough College and later to become Rossall School
.

Geography and administration

Rossall is located in the south-west of Fleetwood along the coast with

2011 census of 6,381.[8]

Rossall School

Main article: Rossall School

independent, day and boarding school
catering to ages 5 to 18. It was founded in 1844 on the site of Rossall Hall by Rev. St Vincent Beechey.

Notable people

See also

References

Footnotes
  1. ^ a b c "Townships — Thornton" in Farrer & Brownbill (1912), pp. 231–237
  2. ^ a b c Curtis & Ramsbottom (1993), p. 4
  3. ^ "Townships — Bispham with Norbreck" in Farrer & Brownbill (1912), pp. 246–247
  4. ^ a b Bennett (1992a), p. 3
  5. ^ Bennett (1992a), p. 4
  6. ^ Robinson (1991), p. 230
  7. ^ a b Bennett (1992b), p. 25
  8. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  9. ^ "Welcome to Rossall School's Website". Rossall School. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2008.
Bibliography
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