“Raikes”, shown of the 1844 map, is a wooded strip of land along the (Tottington Road) highway between Harwood Lee and the Warburton Smithy. Raikes Farm (shown on the 1890 map) is between the highway and Riding Gate Brook, at the junction of the road leading to Lower Knots. Further West is “Top of Raikes, next to Old Pit before reaching the Old Smithy at the brow of the hill.
Richard and Hannah Mather and family lived here abound 1810 to 1830.
