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These three broad facts constitute the general circumstances 

 associating the two places. Then, as regards the names of places 

 and objects : The main stream running through Pendle was 

 called " Pendle water," just as the Irwell was formerly called 

 " Rossendale water." For example : In the Palatine Note Book, 

 Vol. III., p. 210, it is stated (being an extract from an ancient 

 writing) that " Richard de Radcliffe, of Ordsall, Manchester, 

 [son of John de Radcliffe, Chevalier of Ordsall] Escheator of 

 Lancashire, was drowned in Rossendale Water in the year 1380." 

 " Rossendale Water," i.e., the water coming down from or having its 

 rise in Rossendale. Further, there is Newchurch in Pendle, and the 

 river Whitewell in Bowland ; we have Newchurch also and the 

 river Whitewell in Rossendale. In Pendle, there is Walverden 

 [Wolverden], in Rossendale we have Wolfenden. In Pendle, 

 Rough Lee Booth, we have Rough Lee in Rossendale. There is 

 a Goldshaw Booth in Pendle, and a Goodshaw Booth in Rossen- 

 dale. Old Laund Booth, Pendle, and a Laund in Rossendale. 

 In Rattonclough, there is a near resemblance to Rawtenstall. In 

 Pendle and the surrounding district, there are also Dean, Pike Law, 

 Hey Houses, Lane Head, Lane Side, Sykes, Crawshaw Hill, 

 Blackwood, Bull Hole, Hollins, New Hall, Healdwood, Carr Hall, 

 Green Nook, Trough Laith, Water Barn, Rake Head, all of which 

 names have their close counterpart in Rossendale. 



I,ooking at this remarkable list, it must be granted that the 

 similarity, and in many cases the identity which exists between the 

 names in the two districts, is not a matter of mere accident, but 

 that the origin of the names, or rather their application, must have 

 arisen in the mutual intercourse that existed between the inhabi- 

 tants of the one district and the other. The identity, which is 

 indeed too strikingly obvious to be ignored, cannot be explained in 

 any other way. 



It is quite admissible to assume that some of the names may 

 have been carried northward from Rossendale, for, without doubt, 

 Rossendale could lend as well as borrow— there would, in short, be 

 an interchange of names, less or more, though it is highly probable 



