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Blackburnshire was a former district of England around the town of Blackburn. It was divided into the four forests of Accrington, Pendle, Trawden and Rossendale. The shire probably originated as a county of the Kingdom of Northumbria, but was much fought over, and by the time of the Domesday Book it and other hundreds in between the Ribble and Mersey rivers (called "Inter Ripam et Mersham" in the Domesday Book) were included with the information about Cheshire, though it can't be said clearly to have been part of Cheshire.The separateness of the district was reinforced when it became a royal bailiwick in 1122. In 1182, it became part of the newly-created county of Lancashire. Over time, the term fell out of use, but it remained a hundred until the abandonment of that system in the early nineteenth century.

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Crosby, A. (1996). A History of Cheshire. (The Darwen County History Series.) Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0850339324.
Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T. (1987). The Victoria History of the County of Chester. (Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0197227619.
Morgan, P. (1978). Domesday Book Cheshire: Including Lancashire, Cumbria, and North Wales. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0850331404.
Phillips A. D. M., and Phillips, C. B. (2002), A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire. Chester, UK: Cheshire County Council and Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust. ISBN 0904532461.

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