The River Blakewater is a river running through Lancashire, giving its name to the town of Blackburn. The Blakewater rises on the moors above Guide near...
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culverted again at Waterfall and near Griffin Park. It is joined by the River Blakewater near Witton Country Park in Blackburn and leaves the mostly urban landscapes...
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Blackburn (redirect from Blackburn, Lancashire)
uncertain. It has been suggested that it may be a combination of the River Blakewater, and an Old English word "burn", meaning stream. Local author William...
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mill out of the centre of Blackburn, in the Brookhouse area on the River Blakewater. The original water mill was phased out, with power looms introduced...
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Roddlesworth (L) River Blakewater (R) ?reference (rises as Knuzden Brook) Park Brook (L) River Calder (L) Sabden Brook (R) Hyndburn Brook (L) River Hyndburn (R)...
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Brook Sheep Bridge Brook Rake Brook Calf Hey Brook Ferny Bed Springs River Blakewater Snig Brook Audley Brook Little Harwood Brook Royshaw Clough Seven Acre...
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List of Blackburn historical plaques (category History of Lancashire)
Lancashire Telegraph. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2023. "Council wants to remember leading lights with plaques in Blackburn". Lancashire Telegraph...
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coordinates) This is a list of scheduled monuments in the English county of Lancashire. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important"...
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pigsties. What Dewhurst considered the greatest nuisance of all, the River Blakewater, and in particular the "noxious exhalations continually rising from...
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