1. Barnoldswick, Micklethwaite,
maybe also Allerton, Bessacar and Oldfield; two ‘neighbouring
granges’ that should perhaps be identified with New Grange and Bar Grange,
G. Barnes, Kirkstall Abbey 1147-1539: an Historical Study,
Publications of the Thoresby Soc. 58 (Leeds,
1984),
pp. 10- 11.
2. Barnes, Kirkstall Abbey,
p. 11.
3. B. Sitch, Kirkstall Abbey
(Leeds, 2000), p. 11.
4. See S. Moorhouse and S.
Wrathmell,
Kirkstall Abbey I: the 1950-64 Excavations: a reassessment (Bradfield,
1987), p. 57.
5. The Foundation of KirkstallAbbey,
ed. and tr. E. Clark, Publications of the Thoresby Society IV (Leeds,
1895),
p. 181
6. Sitch, Kirkstall Abbey,
p. 10.
7. Sitch, Kirkstall Abbey,
p. 10.
8. These are listed in the Foundation
Narrative as Barnoldswick with Elfwynthorp; Brogen with its
appurtenances; Cliviger (near Accrington) - one carucate of land
with its appurtenances and pasture for horses and herds; Oldfield
(near Keighley); Cookridge; Brearey; Horsforth; Allerton; Roundhay;
Micklethwaite; Thorpe; a messuage in York; Hooten; Bessacar with
two granges neighbouring the abbey (these were probably, Moor Grange
and Bar Grange), Foundation of Kirkstall, pp. 180-1.
