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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...
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    of Blackburn, County of Lancaster: A History of Blackburn, Town and Parish. Abram also confirms that the region, later known as the Blackburn Hundred, was...
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  • Lancashire Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency represented in the House of Commons Blackburn Hundred, a former hundred of the traditional...
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  • Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own) at Preston, recruiting from Blackburn, Garstang, Leyland and Rochdale 4th Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke...
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    The Blackburn Firebrand was a British single-engine strike fighter for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy designed during World War II by Blackburn Aircraft...
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    Lonsdale Lonsdale Amounderness Blackburn Leyland Salford West Derby The Leyland Hundred (also known as Leylandshire) is a historic subdivision of the English...
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  • from the core Blackburn area, and became recognised as separate civil parishes in 1866. The parish formed part of the Blackburn hundred. The other parishes...
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  • Clubs were formed in at least 45 towns. Altrincham Birmingham Blackburn Blackburn Hundred. Bolton. Bristol. Carlisle Colchester Derby Devon and Exeter...
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    Lonsdale Lonsdale Amounderness Blackburn Leyland Salford West Derby The Salford Hundred (also known as Salfordshire) was one of the subdivisions of the...
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    During the interregnum, Shuttleworth was a leading magistrate for Blackburn hundred with John Starkie of Huntroyde and was frequently recorded as officiating...
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    Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, VC, CMG, CBE, ED, JP (25 November 1892 – 24 November 1960) was an Australian soldier, lawyer, politician, and recipient...
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    The Blackburn B.26 Botha was a four-seat reconnaissance and torpedo bomber. It was produced by the British aviation company Blackburn Aircraft at its...
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  • Jeffrey Blackburn was a fictional private investigator who was the hero of a series of stories by Australian writer Max Afford. Afford used him as the...
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    John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC, FRS, FBA (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper...
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    Scottish players. "The Football Association and the Preston North End Club". Blackburn Standard: 3. 2 February 1884. FA Cup Results Archive Portal:  Association...
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    Victorian-Edwardian periods or is more recent. Historically a part of the Blackburn Hundred the first record of Baxenden appears in 1194 as the site of a vaccary...
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  • Farren Blackburn (born 10 December 1968) is a British film and television director and screenwriter. His work includes Netflix's young adult love story...
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  • Kari Boto (née Blackburn) (30 March 1954 – 27 June 2007) was a BBC reporter and senior executive who specialised in Africa. Blackburn was born in Somerset...
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    Lonsdale Lonsdale Amounderness Blackburn Leyland Salford West Derby The Lonsdale Hundred is an historic hundred of Lancashire, England. Although named...
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  • The Hundreds of Cheshire, as with other Hundreds in England, were the geographic divisions of Cheshire for administrative, military and judicial purposes...
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  • conjunction with Roger de Busli the Blackburn Hundred. Sometime after 1086, Albert resigned his fee in Blackburn, and instead obtained a grant of the...
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    The Blackburn Iris was a British three-engined biplane flying boat of the 1920s. Although only five Irises were built, it was used as a long-range maritime...
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    mentioned in the Domesday survey, and the survey of the wider area (Blackburn Hundred) is brief. Around 1160 a "plough-land", possibly the whole of the...
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    1820 the government offered funds toward a permanent barracks in the Blackburn Hundred and Thomas Dunham Whitaker with his fellow magistrates eventually...
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  • (QEGS) is a co-educational state-funded comprehensive free school in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Founded in 1509 as a boys' school, it is now a co-educational...
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    Lonsdale Lonsdale Amounderness Blackburn Leyland Salford West Derby The West Derby Hundred (also known as West Derbyshire) is one of the six subdivisions...
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  • Eger and Magnus Oliv, who also wrote the screenplay, along with Olly Blackburn and Joacim Starander. Starring actors include Jon Rekdal, Jordi Almeida...
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    Wales, and Dublin between 1768 and 1777. Approximately one hundred fifty of Blackburn's portraits survive. He excelled at painting textiles (i.e., representing...
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    Olly Blackburn (also credited as Oliver Blackburn and Ollie Blackburn) is an English film director and screenwriter. Born in London, Blackburn had an...
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    Lancastrian Royalist commander and the first to take action in the Blackburn Hundred. In February 1643 he was present at the loss of Preston and later...
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