The paddock in front of Cockshotts Farm was once referred to as The Parroke meaning little park and from which the word paddock was derived. Within The Parroke once stood another building affectionately known to locals at the time as the Manor House. The name is a little pretentious however as Heyhouses never had a manor and the building disappeared between 1882 and 1891.
It is thought that at one time it was the home of the influential Grimshaw family who built rows of Cottages in Sabden when the calico printing industry arrived. Eleven houses were recorded in Heyhouses in 1810 rented out to James Ingram, James Dixon, Joseph Wood, George Walmesley, James Moorhouse, George Moorhouse, John Bradley, Thomas Ormerod, David Dawson, M. Proctor and Thomas Bury.
Nicholas Grimshaw of Higham, previously Heyhouses built three rows of terraced houses in 1790‘S, Crowtrees Row, Step Row (Clitheroe Road) and Top Row. The original name of Crowtrees Row probably had a connection with nesting crows although coincidentally another member of the Grimshaw family inherited a house in Barrowford known as “Crowtrees“. In the early part,of the 20th century when the houses were sold off the name was altered to Grimshaw Terrace in memory of Nicholas Grimshaw. Yet another change of name was proposed in 1984 to become Badger Wells Cottages raising objections from some who knew the stream running down the side of the row to be Churn Clough and not Badger Well Water. It may also amuse some people to realise the “Badger” of the said “well” is not all it appears to be. Badger is more likely to have meant an itinerant trader, vagrant or tinker who stopped off to refresh himself and his transport whilst taking the old pack horse route from the Wellsprings to Heyhouses. A contrary theory to the black and white striped nocturnal character you would immediately think of.
