Editing Stonyhurst (section)

==The Estate==
The grounds are bounded by the [[River Hodder]], the village of [[Hurst Green, Lancashire|Hurst Green]] and [[Longridge Fell]]. The [[Forest of Bowland]] [[Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]] overlaps in places.<ref>[http://www.forestofbowland.com/visit_attractions_interest.asp#Stonyhurst Places of Interest in The Forest of Bowland Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505224712/http://www.forestofbowland.com/visit_attractions_interest.asp#Stonyhurst |date=2008-05-05 }}</ref>

The earliest deed for the estate dates back to 1200 A.D. when it was known as the "Stanihurst".<ref name=autogenerated2>A Stonyhurst Handbook for Visitors and Others, third edition, 1963</ref> It passed through the Bayley family to their descendants, [[Shireburn Baronets|the Shireburns]] ("Sherburnes" etc), before passing into the hands of [[Thomas Weld (of Lulworth)]]. Already possessing a large estate, he donated it to the Jesuits in 1794 as a new home for their [[College of St. Omer|school]], of which he was an old boy when it was located at [[Liège]].<ref>T. E. Muir, Stonyhurst</ref> A junior branch of the Sherburnes, who had earlier fled to [[Oxford]] to build and dwell in Beam Hall, subsequently emigrated to [[New England]], where they contributed in various ways to the early history of the [[United States]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/somedescendantso00sher/somedescendantso00sher_djvu.txt|title = Some descendants of Henry and John Sherburne of Portsmouth, N.H.|year = 1904|publisher = Boston, New-England historic genealogical society}}</ref>  these descendants included [[Henry Sherburne]] and [[John Sherburne (pioneer)|John Sherburne]].