THE HUNDRED OF BLACKBURN 



BLACKBURN 

 WHALLEY 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



MITTON (part) 

 CHIPPING 



RIBCHESTER (part) 



At the date of Domesday Book the hundred consisted only of the parishes 

 of Blackburn and Whalley, but early in the 12th century, owing to the 

 territorial connexion of the parishes of Chipping and Ribchester with the 

 honor of CUtheroe and the Lacy family, that part of the district of Amoun- 

 derness which is comprised in the parish of Ribchester, except the township of 



Alston-with-Hother- 

 sall, and in the parish 



of Chipping, the 

 township of Aighton, 

 Bailey and Chaigley 

 and part of the forest 

 or chase of Bowland 

 belonging ecclesiasti- 

 cally to the York- 

 shire parish of Great 

 Mitton were annexed 

 to this hundred. 

 Several small parts, 

 such as Clitheroe 

 Castle, were con- 

 sidered to be extra- 



parochial.' Thus constituted the hundred is bounded on the north and 

 east by the county of York, on the south by the hundred of Salford, and on 

 the west by Leyland Hundred and the River Ribble until the township of 

 Ribchester is touched, then the boundary passes north-west and west around 

 the northerly side of Alston-with-Hothersall to the source of Savock Brook, 

 thence in a northerly direction, ascending the River Loud for a short distance, 

 between the forest of Bleasdale and Chippingdale over the summit of Parlick 

 Fell to Wolfsty Fell, thence along the boundary of Yorkshire in an easterly 

 direction to the River Hodder, and so descends that water to the confluence 

 with the River Ribble. The hundred comprises a total area of 174,437 acres. 

 Within or upon its boundary are the following elevations : — Pendle Hill, 1,830 

 ft. ; Wolfsty Fell, 1,701 ft. ; Boulsworth, 1,700 ft. ; Wolfstones in Trawden, 

 1,455 ^^- ; Parhck, 1,416 ft. ; Black Hameldon, 1,573 ^t. ; Longridge Fell, 

 1,149 ft. ; Cribden Moor, 1,317 ft. ; Cartridge Hill, 1,316 ft.; Thieveley Pike, 

 1,474 ^^- ; Great Hameldon, 1,343 ft. ; Bunk Hill, 1,498 ft. The scenery 



1 Clitheroe Caste. Dunno kshaw, Henheads, Heyhouses, Ightenhill Park, Old Laund Booth, Reedley 

 Hallows, Standen in Pendleton, Whcatley Carr Booth, Yate and Pickup Bank. 



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