Edited sentence: Edward Tyldesley of Wardley Hall,  Worsley married Anne Leyland.Families living there were the Morleys, the Leylands after 1431.In 1540 it was described as.It had a moat.It was rebuilt in 1804 but.Morleys Hall in Astley was part of the lands gifted to Cockersand Abbey by Hugh Tyldesley.Sir Thomas Tyldesley was the most famous of this line of Tyldesleys, a supporter of the King in the Civil War he died in theBattle of Wigan Lane and is buried in Leigh Parish Church.The Hall passed through the Legh and Wilkinson families until it was sold to Tyldesley Urban District Council for purposes connected with sewage disposal.and inherited the hall on the death of Thomas Leyland in 1564.being largely built of timber on stone foundations.parts of the old hall survive