Bowland Forest High

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Bowland Forest High
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Croasdale Fell
Bowland Forest High is located in Lancashire
Bowland Forest High
Bowland Forest High
 Bowland Forest High shown within Lancashire
OS grid reference SD659501
Civil parish Bowland Forest High
District Ribble Valley
Shire county Lancashire
Region North West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CLITHEROE
Postcode district BB7
Dialling code 01200
Police Lancashire
Fire Lancashire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament Ribble Valley
List of places
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England
Lancashire

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Bowland Forest High is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, covering some 20,000 acres of the Forest of Bowland. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 163.[1] The parish includes the settlements of Hareden, Sykes, and Dunsop Bridge. It covers Sykes Fell, Whins Brow, Croasdale Fell and Wolfhole Crag. Before 1974, it formed part of Bowland Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

History

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See also: Lordship of Bowland

Historic Bowland comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire.[2] The manors within the Liberty were Slaidburn (Newton-in-Bowland, West Bradford, Grindleton), Knowlmere, Waddington, Easington, Bashall, Mitton, Withgill (Crook), Leagram (Bowland-with-Leagram), Hammerton and Dunnow (Battersby). Modern-day Bowland Forest is divided into two large administrative townships - Great Bowland (Bowland Forest High and Bowland Forest Low) and Little Bowland (Bowland-with-Leagram) - but the Forest was much more extensive in previous times.

St Hubert, the patron saint of hunting, is also patron saint of the Forest of Bowland and has a chapel dedicated to him in Dunsop Bridge.[3] This chapel was founded by Richard Eastwood of Thorneyholme, land agent to the Towneley family. Eastwood was the last Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland during the nineteenth century. An acclaimed breeder of racehorses and shorthorn cattle, he died in 1871 and is buried at St Hubert's.

Media gallery

  • Bowland Mountain Rescue Team Centre - geograph.org.uk - 69087.jpg

    Bowland Mountain Rescue Team Centre.

  • Confluence of the rivers Hodder and Dunsop - geograph.org.uk - 1183642.jpg

    Confluence of the rivers Hodder and Dunsop.

  • Whitendale Farm - geograph.org.uk - 996314.jpg

    Whitendale Farm.

  • St Huberts RC Church, Dunsop Bridge.

  • Langden Castle - geograph.org.uk - 607643.jpg

    Langden Castle.

  • Waymarker on The Hornby Road - geograph.org.uk - 964165.jpg

    The Hornby Road.

See also

References

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  3. ↑ http://www.sthubertsdunsopbridge.co.uk/
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