The Pound. ( Pilling ) Traditional Cache
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Park and stroll cache, park on the adjacent car park. Toilets, shop & post office to hand and the interesting Pilling Pottery. Also worth a visit is the old church, parts of it date back to 1717. Quirky stile en-route too, I wonder how long that has been there? The pound itself does not need to be interfered with to extract the cache. Well done nesrelleg for being first to find 4th March 2012, in it's original form. Updated to new location and container 19th July 2012.
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In the past many villages had Pinfolds or Pounds, (the two words have the same root as appears in the Old English for of the word "Pundfald") they used to impound stray animals. Pilling’s Pinfold appears on a map of 1734 and on the Ordnance Survey map of 1845 with the title "pound" but it is not shown on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1893, by which time it must have been out of use. Its site is adjacent to the public footpath opposite the former Old Ship Inn on School Lane. Pinfolds reflect a time when fencing such as it was, was not stock proof, and the watching over animals was a full time occupation. With the introduction of wire fencing Pinfolds became a thing of the past. Many of them were dismantled and their stone used for other things with only the word "pinfold or Pound" on Ordnance Survey Maps to show where they had stood. Such was the fate on Pilling’s Pinfold. The Manorial Court, in 1807, must have been concerned with the problem of cattle illegally grazing on the highways as the Jurors of the Court drew up the following bye-law:- "We the Jurors to remedy the evils aforesaid do make ordain order adjudge and determine that no person whomsoever shall in future turn any swine horses cows or other cattle or any geese into or upon any of the highways within the said manor or permit or suffer the same to pasture or to be there on any account whatsoever between the hours of six o’clock in the morning and six o’clock at night and on no part of the day or night unless the same be taken care of and tended by some old person to be hired at the expense of the owners of the goods for that purpose but we strictly order and direct that no child or children shall on any account or under any pretence be permitted to look after such cattle in as much as such practice tend to hurt the morals of youth and bring them up in sloth and idleness." The custodian of the Pinfold had the title of Pinder and was one of the Parish Officers elected annually at the Manorial Court. Amongst the past holders were:- Richard Whiteside 1807 - 1808 Robert Lamb 1810 - 1811 Robert Whiteside 1811 – 1815 The Pinfold Dues payable to the Pinder to secure the release of stray animals in 1805 were:- For every Goose ¼d Swine 1d Sheep 2d Calf 3d Colt 3d Cow 4d Horse 4d Of the 38 Pinfolds recorded in the western part of Lancashire only five survive – Out Rawcliffe, Ellel, Great Eccleston, Slyne and Broughton, others which have disappeared from the local area, in addition to Pilling’s are those of Cabus, Garstang, Barnacre and Kirkland. Funds were secured from the Rural Action for the Environment and the Parish Councillors undertook the task of re-building and of managing the site on completion. The re-opening took place on the 26th September 1997, present were children for the two local schools along with interested Parishioners.
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