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A History of the County of Lancaster
… road is that through the village, going from Chorley to Blackburn. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal goes near it, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1901 numbered 594 persons. 2 The main road from Blackburn to Clitheroe passes through the township, and to … good residences belonging to people engaged in business in Blackburn. The Bolton, Blackburn and Hellifield line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… from Whalley goes north-east to Sabden. The railway from Blackburn to Hellifield crosses the extreme western corner, … claimed dower in two plough-lands there against Henry de Blackburn. 5 In 1242 Adam de Blackburn and Reyner de Arches held Wiswell and Hapton by the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 3,349. The principal road is part of that from Chorley to Blackburn, going through the north-west part of the township, … Through this valley runs the Chorley and Cherry Tree (Blackburn) branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and London … of King Edward VII, chiefly by the Parke family. The Blackburn manure works are at Stanworth. There is the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Witton WITTON The ancient township adjoins the town of Blackburn on the east and is divided from it for some … been added to the municipal borough and civil parish of Blackburn by the Blackburn Borough Extension Act, 1877, and the Blackburn …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Warren family has occurred previously in the accounts of Blackburn Hundred and Gooanargh. A claim for common of … Beesley and his wife, both dead in 1653, when Peter Blackburn and Katherine his wife (heir of Henry son of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the township. 35 Other names which occur are Windle, 36 Blackburn, 37 Halliday, 38 Barcroft, 39 Birtwisle, 40 … of Adam son of Henry de Worsthorne for 1 oxgang. Adam de Blackburn and Richard Fitton were witnesses; ibid. W 209. The … son of Matthew de Worsthorne gave to Adam son of John de Blackburn the homage of Adam son of Matthew de Legh (and 9 d. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… family of Scoles. There are reservoirs belonging to the Blackburn Corporation, below Hoddlesden, on the brook of that … of the forest of Rossendale, were parcel of the rectory of Blackburn, their tithes worth to the farmer of the tithes 5 … 10 d.; widow Hargreaves, 2 s. 8 d.; William Sampson, 6 d. Blackburn, 762. Cal. S. P. Dom. 1672, p. 578. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Burnley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of Lancashire, 1 mile (S. E.) from …