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A History of the County of Lancaster
… brooks named near their junctions, and is joined by the Blackburn Road from the west, while the Burnley Road goes off … Accrington; at that point the line is joined by one from Blackburn. On the north side of the town are the districts of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1901 numbered 182 persons. The main road from Clitheroe to Blackburn passes through the hamlet of Osbaldeston in the … 3 The nearest station is at Wilpshire on the Bolton, Blackburn and Hellifield line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Blackburn is distant 4 miles. The township was included in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Along the northern boundary goes the direct one from Blackburn to Church. Further south is a winding road between … Whitebirk is a hamlet near Knuzden. A road from Blackburn to Haslingden, by way of Duckworth and Cocker … goes south and west by Sough Lane Ends towards Darwen. The Blackburn and Accrington railway and the Leeds and Liverpool …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… On the road are traces of the Roman road which led from Blackburn to Manchester. 1 The Coal Measures underlie the … of Lower Darwen not included in the municipal borough of Blackburn and part of Eccleshill. 4 The population of the … in 1901 numbered 39,145 persons. 5 The main road from Blackburn to Bolton, constructed in 1797, runs along the west …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… an armed ambush for one of the duke's justices, Robert de Blackburn, and slew him. 71 Some minor notices occur. 72 Thomas Blackburn of Capernwray died in 1517 holding various lands in … John, aged thirty. He held lands in Arkholme also. 73 John Blackburn was assessed to the subsidy in 1543. 74 Robert …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… north-east of the town. The roads from Whalley and from Blackburn join at the western edge of the town, and then as … loop of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's line from Blackburn to Burnley via Accrington. With the progress of … of this chantry and those of Our Lady's service of Blackburn were concerned was referred to arbitration; ibid. H …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… connected by a cross-road through Pendleton hamlet. The Blackburn and Hellifield branch of the Lancashire and … the farm of Pendleton and Wymondhouses, 1 d. from Henry de Blackburn for 80 acres and 4 s. 6 d. as perquisites of the … estates. 20 No manor is now claimed. The manor of the Blackburn family in Great Pendleton, named in 1295 and later, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… near the bridge named, and also turns eastward to join the Blackburn line and reach the passenger station in Preston by …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the Grimshaws' estate of Clayton Hall in Whalley; Abram's Blackburn, 540. Robert de Hulton about 1260 gave this land in …