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Blackburnshire was a former district of England around the town of Blackburn. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Blackburn ( is a large town in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley It was divided into the four forests of Accrington, Pendle, Trawden and Rossendale. Accrington is a town within the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, in North West England. Pendle is a local government district and Borough of Lancashire, England, on the North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire borders Trawden is a medium sized but rapidly expanding village in Trawden Forest Parish of Pendle, Lancashire, England, situated at the foot of Rossendale is a local government district with Borough status

The shire probably originated as a county of the Kingdom of Northumbria, but was much fought over, and by the time of the Domesday Book it and other hundreds in between the Ribble and Mersey rivers (called "Inter Ripam et Mersham" in the Domesday Book[1]) were included with the information about Cheshire, though it cannot be said clearly to have been part of Cheshire. A shire is an Administrative division of Great Britain and Australia. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a county in North West England. [2][3][4]The separateness of the district was reinforced when it became a royal bailiwick in 1122. A bailiwick is the area of jurisdiction of a Bailiff. The term was also applied to a territory in which the Sheriff 's functions were exercised by a privately appointed In 1182, it became part of the newly-created county of Lancashire. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea Over time, the term fell out of use, but it remained a hundred until the abandonment of that system in the early nineteenth century. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar

Notes and References

  1. ^ Morgan (1978). pp. 269c–301c,d.
  2. ^ Harris and Thacker (1987). write on page 252:

    Certainly there were links between Cheshire and south Lancashire before 1000, when Wulfric Spot held lands in both territories. Wulfric's estates remained grouped together after his death, when they were left to his brother Aelfhelm, and indeed there still seems to have been some kind of connexion in 1086, when south Lancashire was surveyed together with Cheshire by the Domesday commissioners. Nevertheless, the two territories do seem to have been distinguished from one another in some way and it is not certain that the shire-moot and the reeves referred to in the south Lancashire section of Domesday were the Cheshire ones.

  3. ^ Phillips and Phillips (2002). pp. 26–31.
  4. ^ Crosby, A. (1996). writes on page 31:

    The Domesday Survey (1086) included south Lancashire with Cheshire for convenience, but the Mersey, the name of which means 'boundary river' is known to have divided the kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia and there is no doubt that this was the real boundary.

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