Winmarleigh
Winmarleigh means "woodland clearing of a man called Winemaer". The Crown owned most of the land here, with some eleven farmers being tenants of the Duchy of Lancaster. Paley built Winmarleigh Hall in 1871 for the Patten family from Wir-rington. The owner John Patten became the first and last Lord Winmarleigh. The house was four-storeys of red brick with a cloister-like loggia. In 1927 there was a fire and part of the house was later rebuilt. There is an area of wild bog land (west of the village) called Winmarleigh Moss which is an area of Special Scientific Interest dating back to the Ice Age when the land was flooded.
