Is Anyone Familiar with the Tunstall area in North Lancashire please? COMPLETED

[Pennines]

Hi Everyone,

I do hope someone can help please. At the moment I am trying to compile a Family Tree for a friend.

This particular line is named WILLAN - and a George Willan was baptised at Tunstall on 12 May 1776. (Parents George and Mary).

The children of George Willan junior (the one baptised in 1776) - were all baptised at Tunstall, with their abode shown as Up Hall. This George was an Inn Keeper.

I cannot find any mention of Up Hall (Uphall etc) - and wondered if this was simply an address, or an area of Tunstall. Another place which comes in further down the tree, is Leck. However I have found this to be a small township nearby.

My knowledge of these places is zilch, I am ashamed to say. So does anyone know of an Up Hall in or around Tunstall please?

[BumbleB]

I'm assuming that you have looked at the entry for Tunstall in GENUKI 

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Tunstall

Up Hall - Red Lion Inn.  Top left of this map

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102343766

[Pennines]

BumbleB -- you hawk-eyed Star!!

Thank you so very much. Even though you had told me where it was on the map -- it took me a whle to find it,  despite increasing the size!

I had seen this map actually, but it was so small and the writing was so faint, I must admit after glancing around it - I gave up. I was looking for an 'area' in larger letters. That's a lesson learnt.

Thank you so very, very much. I really appreciate your help.

[BumbleB]

No problem, glad to have been able to help.

[Matty]

The Parish records for Tunstall have been transcribed on lan-opc.org.U.K.

[Matty]

Tunstall

[Pennines]

Hi Matty --- yes, thank you. I have been fortunate in that they are on the OPC and also amongst the Lancashire Parish Registers on Ancestry.

I am not normally that lucky!! (I must have been a good girl).

[AlanBoyd]

A couple of points to add about Up Hall.

1) On the 1850 tithe map the Up Hall public house and surrounding land is occupied by a Richard WILLAN (the landowner is Long Preston Hospital).

2) The late 19th century OS map has Whoop Hall (P.H.) at that site and it is still there today as the Whoop Hall Inn. The earliest newspaper reference I can find to Whoop Hall is in 1872.

[Pennines]

Oh Alan - thank you so very much. That is wonderful information and a fantastic photograph.

(What a great name 'Whoop Hall'! I wonder if it was derived from Up Hall - where locals may have pronounced it as 'oop 'all' I can imagine that with the Lancashire accent.)

The George Willan who WAS a publican at Up Hall, certainly when his children were being baptised in the early 19th century -- he had 12 -- did have a son named Richard, baptised in 1803, so he may have taken over as the Inn Keeper. The George Willan, Publican had died in 1828.

I am really grateful for this additional information, Alan AND the photograph (and will keep laughing about Whoop Hall!!)