name, that one of the Sandifords (variously wrote Sanderson and Sandford), of High Ash, in Audenshaw, resided here prior to the breaking out of the civil wars. As early as 1633, the Tetlow family, a branch of the Tetlows, of Chamber, were seated here. Edmund Tetlow, gentleman, second son of Richard Tetlow, of Chamber, gentleman, was of Coldhurst Hall, and, along with his son, Edmund, was a benefactor to the poor of Oldham in 1640. This place has been represented as once in the occupation of Captain or Lieutenant Robert Kay,who signalised himself in the second siege of Lathom House, under the Countess of Derby, July, 1645, but Cob-hurst, in Walmersley, Bury parish, likewise lays claim to having been his abode. The Elsons, who farmed the estate for many years, preserved a traditionary notice of an alleged custom on the part of the Captain in mustering and training his cavalry on the adjacent eminence, called from his name Robin-hill. Edmund Tetlow, of Coldhurst, gentleman, who was living in the latter part of the seventeenth century, left three daughters, co-heiresses, the eldest of whom, Anne, married Edmund Radcliffe, of Fog-lane, gentleman, in 1709, but she died without issue in 1730. It does not appear whether the other daughters were married or unmarried. William Denton, gentleman, seems to have been resident here in 1681. The property was sold to Sir Ralph Assheton, of Middleton, Bart., the purchaser of Werneth, on whose death, May 3, 1716, it became the property of Thomas Lister, Esq., of Gisburn Park, as a part of the portion of his lady, Catherine, second daughter and co-heiress of Sir Ralph Assheton. Mr. Lister, who died in 1745, was father of Thomas Lister, Esq. (died 1761), father of Thomas Lister, Esq., who, in 1797, was elevated to the peerage, by the title of Baron Ribblesdale. In 1804, Lord Ribblesdale sold this estate to Abraham Crompton, Esq., of High Crompton, in whose son, Abraham Crompton, Esq., of Crompton, it is now vested. The hall is now occupied as cottages.

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