. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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 Chi
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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
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