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Entwistle Hall Entwistle, North Turton: Farmhouse: 16th century: 27 January 1967: 1260432: Entwistle Hall: Horrocks Fold Farmhouse (Thimble Hall) Edgworth, North Turton: Farmhouse: 17th century: 27 January 1967
Entwistle is a village in the civil parish of North Turton, in the Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. Its name derives from the Old English ened and twisla which means a river fork frequented by ducks. The name was recorded as Hennetwisel in 1212, Ennetwysel in 1276 and Entwissell in 1311.
When John Entwistle died in 1945 the house and his entire estate passed to his second wife, Florence. When she died during the 1960s, the Snowdon family bought Kilworth House. During the late 1970s, Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath guitarist, lived at the house while dating one of the Snowdon daughters. In 1999, the Snowdons sold Kilworth House to the ...
Whalley Range is an urban area in Blackburn, Lancashire. The area is a community with almost all residents being of Indian or Pakistani heritage. Houses in the area are predominantly terraced and go up on a hill in a typical Pennine mill town style.
The group then grew through acquisition, buying Nationwide estate agents and surveyors from Nationwide Building Society in 1994, Spencers from National and Provincial Building Society in 1995 and London firms Faron Sutaria, PKL and John D Wood & Co. in 1997. In 1998 the business was renamed Countrywide Assured plc and demerged from Hambros plc.
Yarnsdale is a dale or valley in Lancashire.The name is derived from the heron or hern. [1]It contains a small sandstone quarry, also known as Cadshaw Quarry at grid reference 706.178, situated to the north west of Turton and Entwistle Reservoir in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen.
Of these, five are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Until the coming of the Industrial Revolution, Blackburn was a market town, but then became a centre of the cotton industry. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal came to the town in 1806, and the Blackburn and Preston Railway opened in 1846 ...
Yate and Pickup Bank is a civil parish in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England The population of the civil parish taken at the census of 2011 was 366. [ 2 ] The parish contains two hamlets , Bank Fold and Pickup Bank and part of the village of Belthorn which is on the boundary with Hyndburn .