Bank Hey

Bank Hey (also Sunnybower or Sunny Bower) is a suburb of Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It is located to the east of the town, north of Whitebirk and near the boundary with Hyndburn.

Bank Hey
Bank Hey
Shown within Blackburn
Bank Hey
Shown within Blackburn with Darwen
Bank Hey
Location within Lancashire
OS grid referenceSD694302
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBLACKBURN
Postcode districtBB1
Dialling code01254
PoliceLancashire
FireLancashire
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament

{{Myles Wife Hey, Bank Hey}}


A short history of Myles Wife Hey. Grade II*. First a Tudor house 1525, then an Elizabethan manor house 1543 and later developed to become a Jacobean gentleman's residence completed in 1687. Until the early part of the twentieth century it was known as Bank Hey House. Owned by Whalley Abbey, the house was first tenanted in 1525 by Roger de Boulton, a descendant of the first Abbot (Guy de Boulton) for an annual payment of £1-18-11! This was the earliest part of the present house. The de Boultons' stayed until the late fifteen hundreds when William, now Bolton died and a John Peel became tenant having now thirty-five acres of land. The Peels (whose descendant Robert Peel founded the "Peelers", later Britain's first police force and was later to be Prime Minister) later developed the house and it became a manor house sometime between 1537 and 1594 and the listing in 1951 states 1543.

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