Heskin is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England.

[4] The last people to occupy the hall as a residential home were Lord Lilford and his fourth wife in the 1960s.

Since then the hall has been used commercially for antique sales, and other uses including Blackburn College who have used it for training and educational purposes.

The young girl is said to have been sacrificed by a Catholic priest, who hanged her as a sign that he had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism.

Civil war soldiers were not convinced of his conversion so they hanged him from the same spot as the young girl.