Tourist guide to Kelbrook

4:29pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

KELBROOK is yet another of our forgotten villages.

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Tourist guide to Simonstone

4:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

Simonstone was once an important village situated on the old coach road, first planned in the 19th century, which still has traces of this once vital route between Burnley and Whalley.

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Tourist guide to Rimington

3:07pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THIS delightful village has over the years had a variety of names.

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Tourist guide to Croston

2:53pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THE name Croston means just that the town of the preaching cross. The name dates to Saxon times.

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Tourist guide to Pendleton

2:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

SITUATED just two miles to the south east of Clitheroe, this splendid village is split in two by a lovely clear stream, the haunt of dipper and yellow wagtail.

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Tourist guide to Burnley

1:28pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

BURNLEY market area has now been pedestrianised and is now a really safe focus for shoppers.

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Tourist guide to Nelson

1:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

NELSON as a town owes its current status to the arrival of the railway.

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Tourist guide to Mitton

1:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THE name Mitton derives from the word Mythe meaning a junction of rivers. The two rivers are the Ribble and its major tributary the Hodder which meet nearby.

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Tourist guide to Pleasington

1:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

PLEASINGTON is a very pleasant name for a very pleasant and still largely rural suburb of Blackburn.

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Tourist guide to Clayton-le-Moors

1:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

CLAYTON literally means a settlement built on the foundations of clay.

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Tourist guide to Oswaldtwistle

1:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THE area known affectionately as “Ossie” is not just a product of the Industrial Revolution and neither is it just a suburb of Accrington.

Tourist guide to Worsthorne

1:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

WITH rumours abounding of an ancient witch lying imprisoned beneath the foundations of a pub, an alcoholic bar incorporated into part of the local church and a history which may have seen it witness one of the bloodiest battles of the Middle Ages, there is plenty to discover about Worsthorne and its surrounding area.

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Tourist guide to Langho

1:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

LANGHO is definitely a village of two halves. New Langho developed purely because of the construction of the railway in the mid 19th century, when it became into a minor but still thriving commercial centre.

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Tourist guide to Goosnargh

12:47pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THIS delightful community, about five miles to the north east of Preston, has a pleasant village green.

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Tourist guide to Bolton-by-Bowland

12:02pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THE most attractive feature of any English village is its green and so what can be said about Bolton-by-Bowland which has two?

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Tourist guide to Chipping

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

CHIPPING lies in the valley of the River Loud, but it has its own babbling brook and is protected in a fold between the Bleasdale and Longridge Fells.

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Tourist guide to Ribchester

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

RIBCHESTER is unique not just because it is historically wonderful but also because it is the only village which is set directly on the banks of the River Ribble.

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Tourist guide to Ramsbottom

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

MOST people understandably assume the name Ramsbottom is derived from sheep.

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Tourist guide to Bacup

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THE River Irwell originates high above Bacup, not far from the Deerplay Inn. The name indicates that deer did indeed roam these moors.

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Tourist guide to Cliviger

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THE name Cliviger translates from middle English and means Cliff Acre or Cliff Ground and this relates to the rocky Cliviger Gorge.

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Tourist guide to Blackburn

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

Is Blackburn just a relatively modern town founded on textiles?

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Tourist guide to Rawtenstall

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THOSE who wish to see Rawtenstall at its best should arrive by steam train, which gives real insight into the history of the settlement.

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Tourist guide to Downham

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

THERE has been a settlement in Downham since long before the Norman Conquest.

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Tourist guide to Hapton

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

SITUATED around three miles from the rest of Burnley on the way to Accrington, Hapton is often underrated.

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Tourist guide to Chorley

12:00pm Tuesday 24th July 2007

IF you have a passion for history, a visit to Chorley is a must.

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