[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Lorraine Procter

I was very interested in your post about Aspen Cottage as my Mum, Bessie Procter was born there. Her Grandparents lived there for about 60 years. Harry and Alice Clements moved to Oswaldtwistle in about 1890 from Wheatley in Oxfordshire. He got a job as a gardener for the owners of Aspen Cottage and eventually the couple became the tenants. The cottage dates back to the Tudor times and possibly even as early as the 14th century. Rumor has it there is a tunnel linking the house to Church Kirk Church and was used by the monks to enable them to go to Church undetected.

That sounds very similar to the fairy tale of the one in Acc that went to Whalley Abbey. Impossible, back in those days they would have needed explosives to tunnel so far, 4 metres down and its mostly solid rock, the only explosive known at that time was gunpowder, and you would have needed tons of the stuff.