Hacking boat

Morecambe Ex Pat said:
I remember the suspension bridge down the side of the Tanners Arms, it got washed away years ago, did they replace it?


There has been a whirlpool there for as long as I can remember. I think the area is called Sale Wheel Wood, between Ribchester and Dinkley. You used to be able to see the river from the woods but don't know if you still can. The trees were covering the view years ago.
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The suspention bridge near the Tanners is at Dinkly a couple of miles down streem. I remember a couple of times when a patient of brockhall escaped and tried to swim the river. my dad and others used to go down to the suspention bridge a day or so later because they expected the body to get stuck on the rocks, it usually did.

There is no visable whirlpool where the Calder meets the Ribble (the spot i am talking about) just lots of under tow. OK if you swim on the top but if you dive down you may not come up.
 
Sally's cafe back in the 50's!! mushy peas!-all after a day at Hacking boat where, at the Hall, you could get a basket with mugs, pot of tea etc. the Green Punt would take you over the water for2d. EW.
Other great swimming places were West Bradford bend, Mytton & Brungerly bridge
 
This is off t'internet...."Dinckley is Celtic in origin and the name means 'fort of the wood'. It is positioned off the beaten track and is unspoiled making it ideal for delightful walks including through Sale Wheel Woods to the Old Dinckley Ferry which has now been replaced by a low level suspension bridge. The Old Hacking Boat House is a reminder of when the ferryman would transport travellers across the river (The Boat is now in Clitheroe Museum). Hacking Hall Stands on the opposite bank built by Thomas Livesey in 1607 and the riverside can see part of the ferryboat’s jetty. The front of the Hall has 14 sets of mullioned windows and a public car park can be found here".
 
arthur bithell said:
Spent my youth there. lived a Brockhall. 2 of my friends drowned there when i was 18. found the boys bodys where the ribble joined the calder aparently the 2 rivers meeting causes a trench at the bottom once pulled down you can not go up against the water pushing down, or so the police diver said. there used to be a boat there before my time i found the old mooring posts about 200mt down from the ribble/calder join. As a boy i swam to the other side and found the oars in an old barn. firther back from the water was an old farn house that sheep lived in from time to time. there i found the origional boat. about that time i got chased off as it is was a private estate. maybe the old boat is still there. as i remember it was about 15ft to 20 ft covered in tar and needed 4 oars.
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My maternal grandparents' were tenant farmers at Dinckley in the 1930's and my late mother often related to the 'Dinckley Ferry' which operated between Dinckley and the river bridge at Ribchester. The ferry vessel was known locally as the 'Hacking Boat' for whatever reason and the name apparently stuck to the area in which it plied it's trade - or so I was led to believe.
 
Stumped said:
The ferry vessel was known locally as the 'Hacking Boat' for whatever reason and the name apparently stuck to the area in which it plied it's trade - or so I was led to believe.
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The farm was owned by the Hacking family, thats as much as I know about it
 
Stumped said:
The ferry vessel was known locally as the 'Hacking Boat' for whatever reason and the name apparently stuck to the area in which it plied it's trade - or so I was led to believe.
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The land was owned by the del Hacking family from at least 1200, and may have been known in those days as Hacking or land of Hacking.

Bernard de Hacking gave his estate to his son William in 1328. The land then passed to the Shuttleworth family when his only daughter Agnes married Henry Shuttleworth.

It again passed through marriage when Anne Shuttleworth, the sole heir of Robert Shuttlworth married Sir Thomas Walmsley, who built the house in 1607.:)
 
According to an article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, 5 July 1993, the ferry ran from 1686 to the mid-50s. It was a flat bottomed boat with seats round the sides. Mr Michael Jackson, a former Ribble Valley Council chief executive discovered it decaying in a barn while out rambling and had it restored. It was on display at the Clitheroe Castle Museum but took up to much space and is now in the possession of the Ribble Valley Borough Council. Standing on the Billington side of the river you had to shout for the farmer or his wife to ferry you across the Ribble, where it joins the Calder, for a few coppers. It is reputed that dogs were sometimes left to swim across to avoid payment. A long chain acted as an anchor

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According to an article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, 5 July 1993, the ferry ran from 1686 to the mid-50s. It was a flat bottomed boat with seats round the sides. Mr Michael Jackson, a former Ribble Valley Council chief executive discovered it decaying in a barn while out rambling and had it restored. It was on display at the Clitheroe Castle Museum but took up to much space and is now in the possession of the Ribble Valley Borough Council. Standing on the Billington side of the river you had to shout for the farmer or his wife to ferry you across the Ribble, where it joins the Calder, for a few coppers. It is reputed that dogs were sometimes left to swim across to avoid payment. A long chain acted as an anchor

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According to an article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, 5 July 1993, the ferry ran from 1686 to the mid-50s. It was a flat bottomed boat with seats round the sides. Mr Michael Jackson, a former Ribble Valley Council chief executive discovered it decaying in a barn while out rambling and had it restored. It was on display at the Clitheroe Castle Museum but took up to much space and is now in the possession of the Ribble Valley Borough Council. Standing on the Billington side of the river you had to shout for the farmer or his wife to ferry you across the Ribble, where it joins the Calder, for a few coppers. It is reputed that dogs were sometimes left to swim across to avoid payment. A long chain acted as an anchor Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

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They say 'The Grass is Greener on the other side', but from what I remember the terrain on the other banking was sort of lumpier, marshy and full of thistles and more cow clap .. :)
 
katex said:
They say 'The Grass is Greener on the other side', but from what I remember the terrain on the other banking was sort of lumpier, marshy and full of thistles and more cow clap .. :)
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well i can't remember.....then i'm younger.:D
 
Found this in my family pictures, was at Hacking Boat.
Notice the paddling shoes, I had some and they were made of rubber and pink.. :)

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I farm down stream of hacking boat and my uncle is the owner of the old boat house,just to clear some confusion there was a ferry at dinckley also and sail wheel is further down stream from dinckley.The last farmer at the boat house was Harry Holden he moved away from the house near 60 years ago and the house lay derelict till 2001 when my uncle purchased it from the stonyhurst estate.
 

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katex said:
Found this in my family pictures, was at Hacking Boat.
Notice the paddling shoes, I had some and they were made of rubber and pink.. :)

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I have just been reading the posts on Hacking Boat which have taken me right back to my school days,(I think a lot of posts do that for most people) mine are happy days two or three of us and dogs walking from Clayton down lower Barnes st over to Gt Harwood up to the church and over Whalley nab then on to Hacking Boat.
One time when we went must have been a hot sumer day so we took our shirts off, i got terribly sunburnt so bad i was off school for 2 weeks,so even now i do not sit out in the sun.
When Easter came round one year four pals and dogs took a tent and went to camp out there,settling down for the night was not easy with the dogs and a tent only made for three,but we all eventualy got of to sleep.Dont no how long after we were woken up covered in ants, jumped up and ran into the river and it was freezing,when we got back to the tent we watched the ants carrying away pieces of our only loaf.
Decision made to go home.
Never been in a tent since, caravan yes.
 
Does anyone know anything about the tumulus on the west side of the river from Hacking Hall? I heard it contains the dead from a battle in the Dark Ages.
 
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