Architecturally, the area features traditional weavers' cottages exhibiting vestiges of workshop entrances near the cross roads at its centre as well as dwellings associated with potteries and farms.

Although there is no record of Salendine Nook in the 1086 Domesday Book nearby Lindley (Lilleia) and Quarmby (Cornebi) are both mentioned, albeit as `waste'.

In 1558, Edmond de Morton and "a numerous Scotch family", fled from religious persecution in Scotland to find a home south of the border.

The Mortons were potters, and the area attracted them because it was the source of a special type of very pure clay worked for the manufacture of earthenware pottery.

[3][4] The clay was found in the seat-earths in a geological formation known as the Lower Coal Measures at Lockwood Scar, Lindley Moor and Salendine Nook.

Nearby hilltops provided the perfect site for kilns since the wind aided the flue draught and increased the firing temperature of the oven.

One of their descendants, Michael Morton registered his barn in October 1689 as a meeting house for Protestant dissenters and established the building as a religious site, which in time became a Baptist chapel that is still in use today.

Percy Stock in his book Foundations described how difficult the congregation found it to adjust to their new-found freedom: "The October evening wind flows coldly over the moorland.

The old man rises and the service begins as he reads Isaiah Chapter 40 … Comfort Ye My People …The sermon has as its text 'Watchman, what of the night?

[6] John Morton and Samuel Brighouse were two of The Three Greenhorns who emigrated to Canada in 1862 and bought land in the area that today is known as the West End, Vancouver.