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were: Little Mitton, Wiswell, Hapton, Towneley, Coldcoats, Snodworth, Twiston, Extwistle, Aighton, Great
Mearley, Livesey, Downham, Foulridge, Little Mearley, Rishton, Billington, Altham, Great Harwood, Clayton le Moors, and Walton in le Dale.
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were: Twiston, Chipping, Thornley, Wheatley, Ribchester, Dutton, Dinckley, Henthorn, Wilpshire, Clayton-le-Dale, Salesbury, Osbaldeston, Samlesbury, Read, Simonstone, Oswaldtwistle, Livesey, Birtwistle, Church, Cliviger and
Worsthorne.
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Lancashire section of Domesday were the Cheshire ones.
603:(now a much smaller parish) was the larger of the two, and covered the east of the hundred, while Blackburn parish covered the west. As mentioned above, the hundred was expanded to cover parts of the parishes of
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Marsden, Briercliffe, Burnley, Ightenhill, Habergham, Padiham, Huncoat, Hapton, Accrington, Haslingden, Downham, Worston, Chatburn and Little Pendleton.
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Whalley. Also it talks of 28 freemen holding land as manors, but gives no further details about them. After the conquest Blackburnshire was part of a large area given to
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long and as wide, and another six long and four leagues wide, which could be as much as 225 square miles (583 km).
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Victoria History of the County of Chester. Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday.
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945:mentions a battle at Whalley in Northumbria in 768
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1211:A History of Cheshire.
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331:Kingdom of Northumbria
274:, also in Yorkshire),
141: • Abolished
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347:Inter Ripam et Mersam
288:Blackburn with Darwen
250:. Its chief town was
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736:Bowland-with-Leagram
709:Yate and Pickup Bank
359:Battle of Brunanburh
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24:Hundred of Blackburn
1248:Morgan, P. (1978).
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868:Wheatley Carr Booth
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