{"id":17998,"date":"2018-02-03T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T16:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17998"},"modified":"2018-02-02T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:23:28","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-doorstep-lancashires-strangest-listed-buildings-the-pinfold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17998","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Lancashire&#8217;s strangest listed buildings \u2013 the \u2018Pinfold\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lancashire_Post_website020218.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17999\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lancashire_Post_website020218.png\" alt=\"Lancashire Post website\" width=\"300\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a>The <em>Lancashire Post<\/em> reports on how walled yards, or pinfolds &#8211; one just outside Broughton and the other in Great Eccleston &#8211; might well be the strangest listed buildings in Lancashire.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Lancashire Post<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Thousands drive past the Broughton pinfold every day on their commute to and from work and are completely unaware of its significance, or even what it is.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018pinfold\u2019 is of Saxon origin from \u2018pundfald\u2019 meaning \u2018an enclosure\u2019 and dates back to medieval times, and by the end of the 16th century almost every small village across the country would have one. Pinfold was used across the North, North West and East of the country, whereas the word \u2018pound\u2019 was more often used in the Midlands, South, and South West. The small, stonewall pens were built to house animals found straying from their owner\u2019s land or grazing somewhere without the necessary rights. For animals to be released from their temporary enclosure and returned to their owners, a fee would have to be paid to the pinder, the person responsible for the pinfolds and an officer for the Lord of the Manor.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Across Cumbria mainly, artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy has produced a number of egg-shaped scultpures, known as the \u2018Goldsworthy Cone\u2019 in numerous pinfolds. With there only being three remaining pinfolds across Lancashire today, following the large majority of them having fallen into disrepair or dismantled, effort has been made to preserve them in the interests of history, as they stand as monuments of the villages\u2019 rural past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lep.co.uk\/lifestyle\/nostalgia\/lancashire-s-strangest-listed-buildings-1-8955203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancashire Post reports on how walled yards, or pinfolds &#8211; one just outside Broughton and the other in Great Eccleston &#8211; might well be the strangest listed buildings in Lancashire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18000,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998\/revisions\/18000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}