WOLFENDEN/BARGH

[Gillg]

Oh yes, S.J.Bargh , now I remember.  Still see them on the motorway sometimes.
That brings back a few memories, but I'm sorry we are not relatives, just old neighbours.  Bargh is an interesting and unusual surname.  Do you know its origins,?

[CarlB]

It is an medieval English term meaning dweller by a hill or burial mound.  It is probably taken from the
Anglo Saxon word 'beorg' meaning mound or hillock.  Another theory is that it came from the Yorkshire parish of Barugh.

[Gillg]

That's interesting, Carl.  Thank you for stirring some old memories for me.

[Gillg]

Just an additional memory - I don't really remember Claughton Hall Farm, but do remember Claughton Hall, which apparently was moved stone by stone further up the fell and away from the farm in the 1930s.  It's a striking building, in part Elizabethan and maybe older.  This move placed the Hall not just at a distance from the farm of the same name, but away from the main Lancaster to Hornby Road and the River Lune.  At the time we were living in Claughton the Hall was owned by the flamboyant and somewhat notorious Owen Oyston, but now it's a business offering sporting "shoots" and AirBnbs.  An aerial ropeway, incidentally the last one operating in this country,  brings down clay and shale from the fell in buckets (by gravity feed, so no other power needed) over the main road and into the Claughton Brickworks.  I don't think the Bargh family were involved in the brickworks, however.  (There are several illustrated references to Claughton Hall and the Brickworks to be found via Google.)