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Dunsop Bridge, the Glossary

Dunsop Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Bowland Forest High, in the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, north-west of Clitheroe, south-east of Lancaster and west of Skipton.^[1]

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Amounderness Hundred

The Amounderness Hundred is one of the six subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire in North West England, but the name is older than the system of hundreds first recorded in the 13th century and might best be described as the name of a Norse wapentake.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB;, AHNE) is one of 46 areas of countryside in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Æthelstan

Æthelstan or Athelstan (– 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.

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Bowbearer

In Old English law, a Bowbearer was an under-officer of the forest who looked after all manner of trespass on vert or venison, and who attached, or caused to be attached, the offenders, in the feudal Court of Attachment.

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Bowland Forest High

Bowland Forest High is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, covering some of the Forest of Bowland. Dunsop Bridge and Bowland Forest High are forest of Bowland and geography of Ribble Valley.

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Brennand Farm

Brennand Farm is often claimed to be the true centre of Great Britain. Dunsop Bridge and Brennand Farm are geography of Ribble Valley.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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BT Group

BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England.

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Burnley

Burnley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Centre points of the United Kingdom

There has long been debate over the exact location of the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and its constituent countries, due to the complexity and method of the calculation, such as whether to include offshore islands, and the fact that erosion will cause the position to change over time.

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Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan

Charles Towneley Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan (born 6 September 1945), is a British Conservative party politician.

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Charles Towneley (MP)

Colonel Charles Towneley (January 1803 – 5 November 1876) was a wealthy English Gentleman from an old Roman Catholic, Lancashire family.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Clitheroe

Clitheroe is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester. Dunsop Bridge and Clitheroe are geography of Ribble Valley.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.

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Dunsop Bridge (structure)

Dunsop Bridge is a bridge in the English village of the same name.

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E. W. Pugin

Edward Welby Pugin (11 March 1834 – 5 June 1875) was an English architect, the eldest son of architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Louisa Barton and part of the Pugin & Pugin family of church architects.

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Epsom Derby

The Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies.

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Forest of Bowland

The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however roughly half of the area falls into the area of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire). Dunsop Bridge and Forest of Bowland are geography of Ribble Valley.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Hubertus

Hubertus or Hubert (656 – 30 May 727 A.D.) was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers.

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Hunting

Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.

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John Towneley (politician)

Colonel John Towneley (16 February 1806 – 21 February 1878) was a wealthy English Gentleman from an old Roman Catholic, Lancashire family.

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Kettledrum (horse)

Kettledrum (1858–1885) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Lancaster Castle

Lancaster Castle is a medieval castle and former prison in Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire.

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Lancaster, Lancashire

Lancaster is a city in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Liberty (division)

A liberty was an English unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e., an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands).

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Listed buildings in Bowland Forest High

Bowland Forest High is a civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. Dunsop Bridge and Listed buildings in Bowland Forest High are forest of Bowland.

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Lordship of Bowland

The Lordship of Bowland is a manorial lordship associated with the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England. Dunsop Bridge and lordship of Bowland are forest of Bowland.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsop_Bridge

, Skipton, The Crown, Towneley family, Towneley Park, United Kingdom weather records, University of Cambridge, West Riding of Yorkshire, Whitewell, Wulfstan (died 956), Yorkshire.

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