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Blackburn Hundred (also
known as
Blackburnshire) is a
historic sub-division of the
county of Lancashire, in
northern England. Its
chief town was Blackburn...
- two
distinct branches of the family: the
northern branch,
centred on
Blackburnshire and west
Yorkshire was held by Ilbert's descendants; the
southern branch...
- de Lacy (1170–1211),
Baron of Pontefract, Lord of Bowland, Lord of
Blackburnshire,
Baron of Halton,
Constable of Chester,
Sheriff of
Yorkshire and Sheriff...
- for many hundreds,
wapentakes and
liberties such as:
Allertonshire Blackburnshire Halfshire Howdenshire Leylandshire Powdershire Pydarshire Richmondshire...
- the
Honour of ****heroe, but
administered as part of the
Forest of
Blackburnshire,
entirely in Lancashire. Gradale, in the
northeastern extremity of the...
- the
Domesday Book,
Pendle forest was part of the
extensive forests in
Blackburnshire, in the
eastern part of what
would become Lancashire. The
entire area...
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clustered around the
ancient wapentake of
Blackburnshire.
Before the
Norman Conquest, the
lands of
Blackburnshire were held by
Edward the Confessor, while...
- By this time,
wolves had
become limited to the
Lancashire forests of
Blackburnshire and Bowland, the
wilder parts of the
Derbyshire Peak District, and the...
- and
chapelry in the
parish of
Blackburn and a part of the
hundred of
Blackburnshire. In 1701 the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Derwen****er and
other Jacobites...
- in
Staincliffe Wapentake in the West
Riding of
Yorkshire (although
Blackburnshire in
Lancashire sometimes claimed the area). The
parish included the townships...
