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#202122;">River Ribble</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3958976.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/The_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3958976.jpg/250px-The_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3958976.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/The_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3958976.jpg/375px-The_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3958976.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/The_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3958976.jpg/500px-The_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3958976.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4592" data-file-height="2970" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">River Ribble at <a href="/wiki/Preston,_Lancashire" title="Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a 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colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #CEDEFF;color: #202122;">Physical characteristics</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Source</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • location</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Confluence of Gayle Beck and Cam Beck, <a href="/wiki/Selside,_North_Yorkshire" title="Selside, North Yorkshire">Selside</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ribblehead" title="Ribblehead">Ribblehead</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • elevation</span></th><td class="infobox-data">807 ft (246 m)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/River_mouth" title="River mouth">Mouth</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal"> • location</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> at <a href="/wiki/Lytham" class="mw-redirect" title="Lytham">Lytham</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">75 mi (121 km)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #CEDEFF;color: #202122;">Basin features</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Conservation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ribbletrust.org.uk">Ribble Rivers Trust</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>River Ribble</b> runs through <a href="/wiki/North_Yorkshire" title="North Yorkshire">North Yorkshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_England" title="Northern England">Northern England</a>. It starts close to the <a href="/wiki/Ribblehead_Viaduct" title="Ribblehead Viaduct">Ribblehead Viaduct</a> in North Yorkshire, and is one of the few that start in the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Dales" title="Yorkshire Dales">Yorkshire Dales</a> and flow westwards towards the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> (the <a href="/wiki/River_Dee,_Cumbria" title="River Dee, Cumbria">Dee</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dentdale" title="Dentdale">Dentdale</a> and the <a href="/wiki/River_Twiss" title="River Twiss">Twiss</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kingsdale" title="Kingsdale">Kingsdale</a> being notable others). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name <i>Ribble</i> may be a <a href="/wiki/Common_Brittonic" title="Common Brittonic">Brittonic</a> compound-formation.<sup id="cite_ref-bliton_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second element is the noun <i>*pol</i>, with connotations including "puddle, pond, upland-stream" (<a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a> <i>pwll</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-bliton_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first is <i>rö-</i>, an intensive prefix, with nouns meaning "great" (Welsh <i>rhy-</i>, <a href="/wiki/Cornish_language" title="Cornish language">Cornish</a> re-).<sup id="cite_ref-bliton_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ribble may once have been known as <i>*Bremetonā-</i>, underlying the name <i>Bremetenacum</i>, the Roman fort at <a href="/wiki/Ribchester" title="Ribchester">Ribchester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bliton_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Involved here is the Brittonic root <i>*breμ–</i>, meaning "roaring" (c.f. Welsh <i>brefu</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-bliton_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as observed at the river-names <a href="/wiki/River_Breamish" class="mw-redirect" title="River Breamish">Breamish</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">Northumberland</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-bliton_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/River_Braan" title="River Braan">Braan</a> in Scotland and <a href="/wiki/Llanddewi_Brefi" title="Llanddewi Brefi">Brefi</a> in Wales.<sup id="cite_ref-bliton_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Neolithic Britain">Neolithic</a> to <a href="/wiki/Saxon_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Saxon Britain">Saxon</a> finds from along the River Ribble during the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Preston_Dock" title="Preston Dock">Preston Docks</a> and others revealed man has been in the area for a long time. The River Ribble looked completely different then and the coastline is likely to have been much further inland than it is at present where land has been reclaimed and the marsh extended out into the River Ribble due to sedimentation. </p><p>The Ribble would appear to have been known in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> times as the <a href="/wiki/Belisama" title="Belisama">Belisama</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> possibly giving its name to <a href="/wiki/Samlesbury" title="Samlesbury">Samlesbury</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a>'s "<i>Belisama aest.</i>" seems to represent the estuary of the Ribble. <a href="/wiki/Bremetennacum" title="Bremetennacum">Bremetennacum</a> was a Roman fort that guarded a crossing-point of the river at <a href="/wiki/Ribchester" title="Ribchester">Ribchester</a>. Remains of another Roman site were discovered at <a href="/wiki/Walton-le-Dale" title="Walton-le-Dale">Walton-le-Dale</a> in the mid-19th century. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cuerdale_Hoard" title="Cuerdale Hoard">Cuerdale Hoard</a>, the largest <a href="/wiki/Viking" class="mw-redirect" title="Viking">Viking</a> silver hoard ever found outside <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> was discovered in 1840 on the southern bank of a bend of the river, at <a href="/wiki/Cuerdale" title="Cuerdale">Cuerdale</a> near Preston.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whilst the medieval silver <a href="/wiki/Mitton_Hoard" title="Mitton Hoard">Mitton Hoard</a> was found near where this river joins the <a href="/wiki/River_Hodder" title="River Hodder">River Hodder</a> in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-find_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-find-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At one time the Ribble marked the northernmost extent of the ancient kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Mercia" title="Mercia">Mercia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-factsheet_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factsheet-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a>, the river formed the northern boundary of an area of land (known as <i>Inter Ripam et Mersam</i>) that was included in the Domesday information for <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though it was probably not formally part of the county of Cheshire.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sawley_Abbey" title="Sawley Abbey">Sawley Abbey</a> was founded by <a href="/wiki/Cistercians" title="Cistercians">Cistercian monks</a> in 1147, at a bend in the river. It is thought that the monks built a <a href="/wiki/Weir" title="Weir">weir</a> to supply a <a href="/wiki/Mill_race" title="Mill race">mill race</a> that powered a <a href="/wiki/Corn_mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Corn mill">corn mill</a> within the abbey precinct.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Weir_at_Waddow_Hall_on_the_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2224722.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Weir_at_Waddow_Hall_on_the_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2224722.jpg/220px-Weir_at_Waddow_Hall_on_the_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2224722.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Weir_at_Waddow_Hall_on_the_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2224722.jpg/330px-Weir_at_Waddow_Hall_on_the_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2224722.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Weir_at_Waddow_Hall_on_the_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2224722.jpg/440px-Weir_at_Waddow_Hall_on_the_River_Ribble_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2224722.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption>Brungerley Weir near Waddow Hall.</figcaption></figure> <p>After his defeat in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hexham" title="Battle of Hexham">Battle of Hexham</a> in 1464 (during the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>), <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England" title="Henry VI of England">King Henry VI</a> went into hiding at a number of houses belonging to his supporters. A little over a year later he was at Waddington Hall in <a href="/wiki/Waddington,_Lancashire" title="Waddington, Lancashire">Waddington</a>. On 13 July 1465, a group of Yorkists, including the property-owner's brother, arrived at the hall to arrest him. Escaping into nearby woods, Henry was captured soon after crossing the river at the old <a href="/wiki/Stepping_stones" title="Stepping stones">stepping stones</a> at Brungerley.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 1785, a large <a href="/wiki/Weir" title="Weir">weir</a> was constructed across the river, slightly downstream at <a href="/wiki/Waddow_Hall" title="Waddow Hall">Waddow Hall</a>, to supply water to a <a href="/wiki/Cotton_mill" title="Cotton mill">cotton mill</a> at <a href="/wiki/Low_Moor,_Lancashire" title="Low Moor, Lancashire">Low Moor</a>. The site relied on water power right up to closure around 1930, although the <a href="/wiki/Water_wheel" title="Water wheel">water wheels</a> gradually gave way to <a href="/wiki/Water_turbine" title="Water turbine">water turbines</a> and were augmented by <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During 2009, an <a href="/wiki/Archimedean_screw" class="mw-redirect" title="Archimedean screw">Archimedean screw</a> type <a href="/wiki/Hydropower_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydropower station">hydropower station</a> was constructed at Settle weir near Bridge End Mill. Built for a community-owned company, <a href="/wiki/Settle_Hydro" title="Settle Hydro">Settle Hydro</a>, the site became operational by the end of the year. As of February 2024, the generator has produced 1.2 million kWh of electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stainforth_Force_-_geograph.org.uk_-_433067.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Stainforth_Force_-_geograph.org.uk_-_433067.jpg/220px-Stainforth_Force_-_geograph.org.uk_-_433067.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Stainforth_Force_-_geograph.org.uk_-_433067.jpg/330px-Stainforth_Force_-_geograph.org.uk_-_433067.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Stainforth_Force_-_geograph.org.uk_-_433067.jpg/440px-Stainforth_Force_-_geograph.org.uk_-_433067.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Stainforth_Force" title="Stainforth Force">Stainforth Force</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:River_Ribble_bore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A tidal bore wave moves along the River Ribble between the entrance to the river Douglas and Preston." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/River_Ribble_bore.jpg/220px-River_Ribble_bore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/River_Ribble_bore.jpg/330px-River_Ribble_bore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/River_Ribble_bore.jpg/440px-River_Ribble_bore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="685" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tidal_bore" title="Tidal bore">Tidal bore</a> on the Ribble, between the River Douglas and Preston</figcaption></figure> <p>The Ribble begins at the <a href="/wiki/Confluence" title="Confluence">confluence</a> of the <i>Gayle Beck</i> and <i>Batty Wife Beck</i> near the <a href="/wiki/Ribblehead_Viaduct" title="Ribblehead Viaduct">viaduct</a> at <a href="/wiki/Ribblehead" title="Ribblehead">Ribblehead</a>, in the shadow of the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_three_peaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire three peaks">Yorkshire three peaks</a>. It is the only major river rising in Yorkshire which flows westward.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It flows through <a href="/wiki/Settle,_North_Yorkshire" title="Settle, North Yorkshire">Settle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clitheroe" title="Clitheroe">Clitheroe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ribchester" title="Ribchester">Ribchester</a> and <a href="/wiki/Preston,_Lancashire" title="Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a>, before emptying into the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> between <a href="/wiki/Lytham_St._Annes" class="mw-redirect" title="Lytham St. Annes">Lytham St. Annes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southport" title="Southport">Southport</a>, a length of 75 miles (121 km).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its main tributaries are the <a href="/wiki/River_Hodder" title="River Hodder">Hodder</a> and <a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_Lancashire" title="River Calder, Lancashire">Calder</a> which join the river near Great Mitton, the <a href="/wiki/River_Darwen" title="River Darwen">River Darwen</a> which joins at <a href="/wiki/Walton-le-Dale" title="Walton-le-Dale">Walton-le-Dale</a> and the <a href="/wiki/River_Douglas,_Lancashire" title="River Douglas, Lancashire">River Douglas</a> which joins near <a href="/wiki/Hesketh_Bank" title="Hesketh Bank">Hesketh Bank</a>. </p><p>Above <a href="/wiki/Hellifield" title="Hellifield">Hellifield</a> the valley of the river is known as <a href="/wiki/Ribblesdale" title="Ribblesdale">Ribblesdale</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ribble_Way" title="Ribble Way">Ribble Way</a> is a long-distance footpath which follows the river for much of its course. The river is connected to both the <a href="/wiki/Leeds_and_Liverpool_Canal" title="Leeds and Liverpool Canal">Leeds and Liverpool Canal</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lancaster_Canal" title="Lancaster Canal">Lancaster Canal</a> (via the <a href="/wiki/Ribble_Link" title="Ribble Link">Ribble Link</a>). The river downstream of Preston was actively dredged when Preston was an active port; this is no longer done and silt from the river is now spreading more widely over the (sand) beaches around <a href="/wiki/Lytham#Fairhaven" class="mw-redirect" title="Lytham">Fairhaven</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Annes" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Annes">St. Annes</a>. </p><p>Its 10-mile-wide (16 km) estuary forms part of the <a href="/wiki/Ribble_and_Alt_Estuaries" title="Ribble and Alt Estuaries">Ribble and Alt Estuaries</a> <a href="/wiki/Special_Protection_Area" title="Special Protection Area">Special Protection Area</a> for wildlife. An average of 340,000 water birds over-winter in the estuary making it the most important wetland site in Britain. The Ribble is also a key breeding ground for the endangered <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_salmon" title="Atlantic salmon">Atlantic salmon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-factsheet_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factsheet-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>1.25 million people live in the Ribble's catchment area.<sup id="cite_ref-factsheet_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factsheet-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Normal Tidal Limit (NTL) of the river is at Fishwick Bottoms, between Preston and <a href="/wiki/Walton-le-Dale" title="Walton-le-Dale">Walton-le-Dale</a>, 11 miles (18 km) from the sea.<sup id="cite_ref-factsheet_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factsheet-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The River Ribble has the third-largest tides in England, with tides that run at 4 knots (5 mph; 7 km/h) and a tidal range at the mouth of the river of 30 feet (9 m) during <a href="/wiki/Spring_tide" class="mw-redirect" title="Spring tide">spring tides</a>. Since River Ribble dredging ceased, the estuary is filling up with sand and is developing a meandering path, depending on the tides and river runoff. In addition, many tributaries flow into the main channel including the <a href="/wiki/Savick_Brook" title="Savick Brook">Savick Brook</a>/Ribble Link, while the River Douglas, has a significant influence both on sediment transport and hydrodynamics of the estuary.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crossings">Crossings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Crossings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_crossings_of_the_River_Ribble" title="List of crossings of the River Ribble">List of crossings of the River Ribble</a></div> <p>There was a <a href="/wiki/Edisford_Bridge" title="Edisford Bridge">bridge at Edisford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clitheroe" title="Clitheroe">Clitheroe</a> in 1339. The age of the present <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a> bridge is not known, but parts contain features indicating they may date to the late medieval period.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The current <a href="/wiki/Ribchester_Bridge" title="Ribchester Bridge">Ribchester Bridge</a> dates from 1774. It replaced one built in 1669, which also had a predecessor of unknown age.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Evidence of a bridge between <a href="/wiki/Preston,_Lancashire" title="Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Walton-le-Dale" title="Walton-le-Dale">Walton-le-Dale</a> occurs in a deed in the early 13th century. A stone bridge was built in the early 1400s, possibly just west of the present Walton Bridge which was completed in 1781. Until 1755 this was the only bridge over the Ribble at Preston.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original attempt to build a bridge directly to <a href="/wiki/Penwortham" title="Penwortham">Penwortham</a> was completed in 1755, only to collapse the following year. The <a href="/wiki/Penwortham_Old_Bridge" title="Penwortham Old Bridge">Penwortham Old Bridge</a> opened in 1759 to replace it.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1802 the <a href="/wiki/Lancaster_Canal" title="Lancaster Canal">Lancaster Canal Company</a> completed a timber <a href="/wiki/Trestle_bridge" title="Trestle bridge">trestle bridge</a> to facilitate a temporary <a href="/wiki/Tramway_(industrial)" title="Tramway (industrial)">tramroad</a> to connect the two isolated sections of the canal. The missing section was never completed and, although heavily modified, the disused <a href="/wiki/Lancaster_Canal_Tramroad" title="Lancaster Canal Tramroad">Old Tramroad Bridge</a> still stands today.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ferries_(historic)"><span id="Ferries_.28historic.29"></span>Ferries (historic)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ferries (historic)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several <a href="/wiki/Ferry" title="Ferry">ferry</a> crossings were marked along the lower part of the river, on the first <a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" title="Ordnance Survey">Ordnance Survey</a> map of Lancashire, published in the 1840s. The Hacking Ferry near <a href="/wiki/Hacking_Hall" title="Hacking Hall">Hacking Hall</a> and Trowers Ferry near Dinckley Hall. Another, downstream of Osbaldeston Hall and the Balderstone Hall Ferry. Also at <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Leonard_the_Less,_Samlesbury" title="Church of St Leonard the Less, Samlesbury">Samlesbury Church</a> as well as an old boat house, upstream of Penwortham Old Bridge.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is uncertain when these services began. A 1354 <a href="/wiki/Charter" title="Charter">charter</a> assigned some land for the use of the ferryman near Ribchester, possibly referring to the crossing near Osbaldeston Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Hacking Ferry seems to have been funded by the Shireburn family of <a href="/wiki/Stonyhurst_College" title="Stonyhurst College">Stonyhurst</a>, and established during the 1600s. It continued operating as a regular toll service until 1938, but continued occasionally afterward until it finally ceased operation in 1955. In later years it operated two <a href="/wiki/Johnboat" title="Johnboat">johnboat</a>-type <a href="/wiki/Rowing_boat" class="mw-redirect" title="Rowing boat">rowing boats</a>. The older boat could carry twelve passengers and a newer boat had a capacity of 19. The former is now in the collection at <a href="/wiki/Clitheroe_Castle_Museum" title="Clitheroe Castle Museum">Clitheroe Castle Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Estuary_crossing_proposals">Estuary crossing proposals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Estuary crossing proposals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:04_Ribble_estuary,_Lytham_St_Annes,_Lancashire,_UK.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/04_Ribble_estuary%2C_Lytham_St_Annes%2C_Lancashire%2C_UK.jpg/220px-04_Ribble_estuary%2C_Lytham_St_Annes%2C_Lancashire%2C_UK.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/04_Ribble_estuary%2C_Lytham_St_Annes%2C_Lancashire%2C_UK.jpg/330px-04_Ribble_estuary%2C_Lytham_St_Annes%2C_Lancashire%2C_UK.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/04_Ribble_estuary%2C_Lytham_St_Annes%2C_Lancashire%2C_UK.jpg/440px-04_Ribble_estuary%2C_Lytham_St_Annes%2C_Lancashire%2C_UK.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Ribble estuary</figcaption></figure> <p>A Ribble estuary fixed crossing has been proposed on several occasions, to provide a quicker route between the seaside resorts of <a href="/wiki/Southport" title="Southport">Southport</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blackpool" title="Blackpool">Blackpool</a>. Two routes for a tramroad were proposed; the first in 1899 outlined a route between <a href="/wiki/Crossens" title="Crossens">Crossens</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lytham" class="mw-redirect" title="Lytham">Lytham</a>, then between 1900 and 1906 as a route from Crossens to <a href="/wiki/Warton,_Fylde" title="Warton, Fylde">Warton</a> via <a href="/wiki/Hesketh_Bank" title="Hesketh Bank">Hesketh Bank</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A railway tunnel was proposed in 1907, between Hesketh Bank and Warton.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A bridge was proposed between 1938 and 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A road link was campaigned for in 2007, envisaging a development similar to the <a href="/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station" title="Rance Tidal Power Station">Rance Tidal Power Station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, an <a href="/wiki/April_fools%27_joke" class="mw-redirect" title="April fools' joke">April fools' joke</a> suggested a 9-mile-long (14 km) road tunnel from <a href="/wiki/Marshside,_Merseyside" title="Marshside, Merseyside">Marshside</a> to <a href="/wiki/Lytham_St_Annes" title="Lytham St Annes">Lytham St Annes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ecology">Ecology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Ecology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The River Ribble catchment is covered by the Ribble Rivers Trust, a UK based charity working to improve, protect and promote the River Ribble for both people and wildlife. The Ribble Estuary is an Internationally important <a href="/wiki/Ramsar_site" title="Ramsar site">Ramsar Wetland site</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Special_Protection_Area" title="Special Protection Area">Special Protection Area</a> (SPA) under the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Nature_Conservation_Committee" title="Joint Nature Conservation Committee">Joint Nature Conservation Committee</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Marine_Conservation_Zone" title="Marine Conservation Zone">Marine Conservation Zone</a> up to <a href="/wiki/Samlesbury" title="Samlesbury">Samlesbury</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest" title="Site of Special Scientific Interest">Site of Special Scientific Interest</a> (SSSI),<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/National_nature_reserve_(United_Kingdom)" title="National nature reserve (United Kingdom)">National Nature Reserve</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is under development as a Coast & Wetlands <a href="/wiki/Regional_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional Park">Regional Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Preston_City_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Preston City Council">Preston City Council</a> published plans to build a barrage across the River Ribble, in their 'Riverworks' proposals (2006).<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The aim of these proposals was to build a barrage and a water sports park on a section of the Ribble, coupled with over 4,000 units of housing and businesses in the river's flood plain. Some local residents opposed these plans, arguing that they endanger wildlife, increase flood risk to local housing and damage greenbelt areas. These residents set up the Save The Ribble campaign, and their two-year information campaign successfully overturned Preston City Council's proposals, and South Ribble Borough Council announced the alternative creation of a Country Park. 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Mountain_sign.svg/12px-Mountain_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Mountain_sign.svg/16px-Mountain_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/Ingleborough" title="Ingleborough">Ingleborough</a></i></div></div></div></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Rivers_of_Lancashire.png" title="File:Rivers of Lancashire.png">class=notpageimage| </a></div><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Shown with other rivers and canals in <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_Yorkshire">North Yorkshire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Main tributaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rivers_Ribble_and_Hodder_meet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5485346.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Rivers_Ribble_and_Hodder_meet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5485346.jpg/220px-Rivers_Ribble_and_Hodder_meet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5485346.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Rivers_Ribble_and_Hodder_meet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5485346.jpg/330px-Rivers_Ribble_and_Hodder_meet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5485346.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Rivers_Ribble_and_Hodder_meet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5485346.jpg/440px-Rivers_Ribble_and_Hodder_meet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5485346.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1006" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Confluence" title="Confluence">confluence</a> with the <a href="/wiki/River_Hodder" title="River Hodder">River Hodder</a>.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_tributaries_of_the_River_Ribble" title="List of tributaries of the River Ribble">List of tributaries of the River Ribble</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Douglas,_Lancashire" title="River Douglas, Lancashire">River Douglas</a> or River Asland</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savick_Brook" title="Savick Brook">Savick Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Darwen" title="River Darwen">River Darwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stydd_Brook" title="Stydd Brook">Stydd Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinckley_Brook" title="Dinckley Brook">Dinckley Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_Lancashire" title="River Calder, Lancashire">River Calder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Hodder" title="River Hodder">River Hodder</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The River Ribble gives its name to the local government boroughs of <a href="/wiki/Ribble_Valley" title="Ribble Valley">Ribble Valley</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Ribble" title="South Ribble">South Ribble</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Ribble_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ribble Valley (UK Parliament constituency)">Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Ribble_Motor_Services" title="Ribble Motor Services">Ribble Bus Company</a> once operated throughout <a href="/wiki/North_West_England" title="North West England">North West England</a>. The Ribble also lends its name to the <a href="/wiki/Ribble_Steam_Railway" title="Ribble Steam Railway">Ribble Steam Railway</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFJames" class="citation web cs1">James, Alan. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary_2019_Edition.pdf">"A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>SPNS – The Brittonic Language in the Old North</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Ltd. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85033-932-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-85033-932-4">0-85033-932-4</a>.</li> <li>Greenhalgh, M. (2009). <i>Ribble: river and valley, a local and natural history</i>. Lancaster, Carnegie Publishing. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85936-135-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85936-135-1">978-1-85936-135-1</a>.</li> <li>Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T. (1987). <i>The Victoria History of the County of Chester. (Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday).</i> Oxford: Oxford University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-722761-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-722761-9">0-19-722761-9</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Hutton" title="Ronald Hutton">Hutton, R.</a> (1991) <i>The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles</i>, Oxford : Blackwell, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-17288-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-631-17288-2">0-631-17288-2</a></li> <li>Morgan, P. (1978). <i>Domesday Book Cheshire: Including Lancashire, Cumbria, and North Wales</i>. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85033-140-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-85033-140-4">0-85033-140-4</a>.</li> <li>Phillips A. D. M., and Phillips, C. B. (2002), <i>A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire</i>. Chester, UK: Cheshire County Council and Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-904532-46-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-904532-46-1">0-904532-46-1</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ribble&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAssinderMudgeBourne1997" class="citation journal cs1">Assinder, D. J.; Mudge, S. M. & Bourne, G. S. (1997). "Radiological assessment of the Ribble estuary—I. Distribution of radionuclides in surface sediments". <i>Journal of Environmental Radioactivity</i>. <b>36</b> (1). Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.: 1–19. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0265-931X%2896%2900073-2">10.1016/S0265-931X(96)00073-2</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.atitle=Radiological+assessment+of+the+Ribble+estuary%E2%80%94I.+Distribution+of+radionuclides+in+surface+sediments&rft.volume=36&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=1-19&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2FS0265-931X%2896%2900073-2&rft.aulast=Assinder&rft.aufirst=D.+J.&rft.au=Mudge%2C+S.+M.&rft.au=Bourne%2C+G.+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARiver+Ribble" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMudgeBourneAssinder1997" class="citation journal cs1">Mudge, S. M.; Bourne, G. S. & Assinder, D. J. (1997). "Radiological assessment of the Ribble estuary—II. Beta and gamma dose rates and doses to critical groups". <i>Journal of Environmental Radioactivity</i>. <b>36</b> (1). Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.: 21–41. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0265-931X%2896%2900074-4">10.1016/S0265-931X(96)00074-4</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.atitle=Radiological+assessment+of+the+Ribble+estuary%E2%80%94II.+Beta+and+gamma+dose+rates+and+doses+to+critical+groups&rft.volume=36&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=21-41&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2FS0265-931X%2896%2900074-4&rft.aulast=Mudge&rft.aufirst=S.+M.&rft.au=Bourne%2C+G.+S.&rft.au=Assinder%2C+D.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARiver+Ribble" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMudgeAssinderBourne1997" class="citation journal cs1">Mudge, S. M.; Assinder, D. J. & Bourne, G. S. (1997). "Radiological assessment of the Ribble estuary—III. Redistribution of radionuclides". <i>Journal of Environmental Radioactivity</i>. <b>36</b> (1). 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Brock">Brock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Brun" title="River Brun">Brun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_Lancashire" title="River Calder, Lancashire">Calder (Ribble)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_Wyre" title="River Calder, Wyre">Calder (Wyre)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Chor" title="River Chor">Chor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Cocker,_Lancashire" title="River Cocker, Lancashire">Cocker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Conder" title="River Conder">Conder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Darwen" title="River Darwen">Darwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Don,_Lancashire" title="River Don, Lancashire">Don</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Douglas,_Lancashire" title="River Douglas, Lancashire">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Dunsop" title="River Dunsop">Dunsop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Greta_(Lune)" title="River Greta (Lune)">Greta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Grizedale" title="River Grizedale">Grizedale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Hindburn" title="River Hindburn">Hindburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Hyndburn" title="River Hyndburn">Hyndburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Hodder" title="River Hodder">Hodder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Irwell" title="River Irwell">Irwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Keer" title="River Keer">Keer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Laneshaw" title="River Laneshaw">Laneshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Lostock" title="River Lostock">Lostock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Loud" title="River Loud">Loud</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/River_Lune" title="River Lune">Lune</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Ogden" title="River Ogden">Ogden</a></li> <li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ribble</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Roddlesworth" title="River Roddlesworth">Roddlesworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Roeburn" title="River Roeburn">Roeburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Spodden" title="River Spodden">Spodden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Tawd" title="River Tawd">Tawd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Wenning" title="River Wenning">Wenning</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/River_Wyre" title="River Wyre">Wyre</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Yarrow_(Lancashire)" title="River Yarrow (Lancashire)">Yarrow</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Preston_Riversway_Docks.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Preston Riversway Docks on the River Ribble" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Preston_Riversway_Docks.jpg/200px-Preston_Riversway_Docks.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Preston_Riversway_Docks.jpg/300px-Preston_Riversway_Docks.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Preston_Riversway_Docks.jpg/400px-Preston_Riversway_Docks.jpg 2x" 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(Chorley)">Black Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradshaw_Brook" title="Bradshaw Brook">Bradshaw Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broad_Fleet" title="Broad Fleet">Broad Fleet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colne_Water" title="Colne Water">Colne Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinckley_Brook" title="Dinckley Brook">Dinckley Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagley_Brook" title="Eagley Brook">Eagley Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Earby_Beck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Earby Beck (page does not exist)">Earby Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freckleton_Pool" title="Freckleton Pool">Freckleton Pool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Brook,_Lancashire" title="Green Brook, Lancashire">Green Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Withins_Brook" title="Green Withins Brook">Green Withins Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyndburn_Brook" title="Hyndburn Brook">Hyndburn Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langden_Brook" title="Langden Brook">Langden Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leck_Beck" title="Leck Beck">Leck Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limy_Water" title="Limy Water">Limy Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mearley_Brook" title="Mearley Brook">Mearley Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naden_Brook" title="Naden Brook">Naden Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendle_Water" title="Pendle Water">Pendle Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendleton_Brook" title="Pendleton Brook">Pendleton Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabden_Brook" title="Sabden Brook">Sabden Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savick_Brook" title="Savick Brook">Savick Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skirden_Beck" title="Skirden Beck">Skirden Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stock_Beck" title="Stock Beck">Stock Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stydd_Brook" title="Stydd Brook">Stydd Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trawden_Brook" title="Trawden Brook">Trawden Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walverden_Water" title="Walverden Water">Walverden Water</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/River_Aire" title="River Aire">Aire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arram_Beck" title="Arram Beck">Arram Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Derwent,_Yorkshire" title="River Derwent, Yorkshire">Derwent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Driffield_Beck" class="mw-redirect" title="Driffield Beck">Driffield Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Foulness" title="River Foulness">Foulness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gypsey_Race" title="Gypsey Race">Gypsey Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedon_Haven" title="Hedon Haven">Hedon Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Hull" title="River Hull">Hull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humber" title="Humber">Humber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lambwath_Stream" title="Lambwath Stream">Lambwath Stream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Ouse,_Yorkshire" title="River Ouse, Yorkshire">Ouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pocklington_Beck" title="Pocklington Beck">Pocklington Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trent_Falls" title="Trent Falls">Trent Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Beck" title="West Beck">West Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winestead_Drain" title="Winestead Drain">Winestead Drain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North Yorkshire</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Aire" title="River Aire">Aire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkle_Beck" title="Arkle Beck">Arkle Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Bain,_North_Yorkshire" title="River Bain, North Yorkshire">Bain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedale_Beck" title="Bedale Beck">Bedale Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Burn,_North_Yorkshire" title="River Burn, North Yorkshire">Burn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cock_Beck" title="Cock Beck">Cock Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cod_Beck,_North_Yorkshire" title="Cod Beck, North Yorkshire">Cod Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costa_Beck" title="Costa 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Beck">Hodge Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holgate_Beck" title="Holgate Beck">Holgate Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Kyle" title="River Kyle">Kyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Leven,_North_Yorkshire" title="River Leven, North Yorkshire">Leven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malham_Beck" title="Malham Beck">Malham Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Nidd" title="River Nidd">Nidd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oak_Beck" title="Oak Beck">Oak Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Ouse,_Yorkshire" title="River Ouse, Yorkshire">Ouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pickering_Beck" title="Pickering Beck">Pickering Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsdale_Beck" title="Ramsdale Beck">Ramsdale Beck</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ribble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Riccal" title="River Riccal">Riccall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Risedale_Beck" title="Risedale Beck">Risedale Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Rye,_Yorkshire" title="River Rye, Yorkshire">Rye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_Cut_(Scalby_Beck)" title="Sea Cut (Scalby Beck)">Sea Cut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Seph" title="River Seph">Seph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Seven" title="River Seven">Seven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skeeby_Beck" title="Skeeby Beck">Skeeby Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Skell" title="River Skell">Skell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skelton_Beck" title="Skelton Beck">Skelton Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Skirfare" title="River Skirfare">Skirfare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Swale" title="River Swale">Swale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Tees" title="River Tees">Tees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Tutt" title="River Tutt">Tutt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Twiss" title="River Twiss">Twiss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Ure" title="River Ure">Ure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Washburn" title="River Washburn">Washburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Wenning" title="River Wenning">Wenning</a></li> <li><a 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title="River Loxley">Loxley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meers_Brook" title="Meers Brook">Meers Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Hay_Brook" title="Old Hay Brook">Old Hay Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porter_Brook" title="Porter Brook">Porter Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Rivelin" title="River Rivelin">Rivelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Rother,_South_Yorkshire" title="River Rother, South Yorkshire">Rother</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Ryton" title="River Ryton">Ryton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Sheaf" title="River Sheaf">Sheaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shire_Brook" title="Shire Brook">Shire Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Torne_(England)" title="River Torne (England)">Torne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Totley_Brook" title="Totley Brook">Totley Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Went" title="River Went">Went</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyming_Brook" title="Wyming Brook">Wyming Brook</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">West Yorkshire</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Aire" title="River Aire">Aire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradford_Beck" title="Bradford Beck">Bradford Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Brook,_West_Yorkshire" title="Black Brook, West Yorkshire">Black Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_West_Yorkshire" title="River Calder, West Yorkshire">Calder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cock_Beck" title="Cock Beck">Cock Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Colne,_West_Yorkshire" title="River Colne, West Yorkshire">Colne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Dearne" title="River Dearne">Dearne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harden_Beck" title="Harden Beck">Harden Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebble_Brook" title="Hebble Brook">Hebble Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebden_Water" title="Hebden Water">Hebden Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Holme" title="River Holme">Holme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holme_Beck" title="Holme Beck">Holme Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Laneshaw" title="River Laneshaw">Laneshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meanwood_Beck" title="Meanwood Beck">Meanwood Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pudsey_Beck" title="Pudsey Beck">Pudsey Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Ribble,_West_Yorkshire" title="River Ribble, West Yorkshire">Ribble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Ryburn" title="River Ryburn">Ryburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Spen" title="River Spen">Spen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyersal_Beck" title="Tyersal Beck">Tyersal Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Wharfe" title="River Wharfe">Wharfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Worth" title="River Worth">Worth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyke_Beck" title="Wyke Beck">Wyke Beck</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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counties of England">Ceremonial county</a></span> of <span class="fn org region"><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a></span></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><i><a href="/wiki/Portal:Lancashire" title="Portal:Lancashire">Lancashire Portal</a></i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unitary authorities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blackburn_with_Darwen" title="Blackburn with Darwen">Blackburn with Darwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Blackpool" title="Borough of Blackpool">Blackpool</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Boroughs or districts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Burnley" title="Borough of Burnley">Burnley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Chorley" title="Borough of Chorley">Chorley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Fylde" title="Borough of Fylde">Fylde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyndburn" title="Hyndburn">Hyndburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Lancaster" title="City of Lancaster">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Pendle" title="Borough of Pendle">Pendle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Preston,_Lancashire" title="City of Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ribble_Valley" title="Ribble Valley">Ribble Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Rossendale" title="Borough of Rossendale">Rossendale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Ribble" title="South Ribble">South Ribble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Lancashire" title="West Lancashire">West Lancashire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Wyre" title="Borough of Wyre">Wyre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Major settlements<br />(cities in italics)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accrington" title="Accrington">Accrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bacup" title="Bacup">Bacup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bamber_Bridge" title="Bamber Bridge">Bamber Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnoldswick" title="Barnoldswick">Barnoldswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bispham,_Blackpool" title="Bispham, Blackpool">Bispham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackburn" title="Blackburn">Blackburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackpool" title="Blackpool">Blackpool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brierfield,_Lancashire" title="Brierfield, Lancashire">Brierfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnley" title="Burnley">Burnley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burscough" title="Burscough">Burscough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnforth" title="Carnforth">Carnforth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chorley" title="Chorley">Chorley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton-le-Moors" title="Clayton-le-Moors">Clayton-le-Moors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveleys" title="Cleveleys">Cleveleys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clitheroe" title="Clitheroe">Clitheroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colne" title="Colne">Colne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darwen" title="Darwen">Darwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earby" title="Earby">Earby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euxton" title="Euxton">Euxton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fleetwood" title="Fleetwood">Fleetwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulwood,_Lancashire" title="Fulwood, Lancashire">Fulwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garstang" title="Garstang">Garstang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Harwood" title="Great Harwood">Great Harwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haslingden" title="Haslingden">Haslingden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heysham" title="Heysham">Heysham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkham,_Lancashire" title="Kirkham, Lancashire">Kirkham</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_Lancashire" title="Lancaster, Lancashire">Lancaster</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leyland,_Lancashire" title="Leyland, Lancashire">Leyland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longridge" title="Longridge">Longridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lytham_St_Annes" title="Lytham St Annes">Lytham St Annes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morecambe" title="Morecambe">Morecambe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson,_Lancashire" title="Nelson, Lancashire">Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ormskirk" title="Ormskirk">Ormskirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswaldtwistle" title="Oswaldtwistle">Oswaldtwistle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padiham" title="Padiham">Padiham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penwortham" title="Penwortham">Penwortham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poulton-le-Fylde" title="Poulton-le-Fylde">Poulton-le-Fylde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preesall" title="Preesall">Preesall</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Preston,_Lancashire" title="Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rawtenstall" title="Rawtenstall">Rawtenstall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rishton" title="Rishton">Rishton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skelmersdale" title="Skelmersdale">Skelmersdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornton,_Lancashire" title="Thornton, Lancashire">Thornton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterfoot,_Lancashire" title="Waterfoot, Lancashire">Waterfoot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medlar-with-Wesham" title="Medlar-with-Wesham">Wesham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitworth,_Lancashire" title="Whitworth, Lancashire">Whitworth</a><br /><i>See also:</i> <b><a href="/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Lancashire" class="mw-redirect" title="List of civil parishes in Lancashire">List of civil parishes in Lancashire</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_Lancashire" title="River Calder, Lancashire">Calder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Darwen" title="River Darwen">Darwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Douglas,_Lancashire" title="River Douglas, Lancashire">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Hodder" title="River Hodder">Hodder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Hyndburn" title="River Hyndburn">Hyndburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Irwell" title="River Irwell">Irwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Lune" title="River Lune">Lune</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ribble</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tributaries_of_the_River_Ribble" title="List of tributaries of the River Ribble">tributaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_crossings_of_the_River_Ribble" title="List of crossings of the River Ribble">crossings</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Wyre" title="River Wyre">Wyre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Canals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster_Canal" title="Lancaster Canal">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leeds_and_Liverpool_Canal" title="Leeds and Liverpool Canal">Leeds and Liverpool</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Lancashire" title="List of parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire">Parliamentary constituencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Lancashire" title="List of places in Lancashire">Places</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_settlements_in_Lancashire_by_population" title="List of settlements in Lancashire by population">Population of major settlements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monuments_in_Lancashire" title="Scheduled monuments in Lancashire">Scheduled monuments</a></li> <li>Schools <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Lancashire" title="List of schools in Lancashire">Lancashire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Blackburn_with_Darwen" title="List of schools in Blackburn with Darwen">Blackburn with Darwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Blackpool" title="List of schools in Blackpool">Blackpool</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Lancashire" title="List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Lancashire">SSSIs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Country_houses_in_Lancashire" title="Category:Country houses in Lancashire">Country houses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Lancashire" title="Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire">Grade I buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Lancashire" title="Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire">Grade II* buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Lancashire" title="History of Lancashire">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Lancashire" title="List of museums in Lancashire">Museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Lancashire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire">Lord Lieutenants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Lancashire" title="High Sheriff of Lancashire">High Sheriffs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Rose_of_Lancaster" title="Red Rose of Lancaster">Red Rose</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Geography_of_the_Borough_of_South_Ribble" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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Ribble</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bamber_Bridge" title="Bamber Bridge">Bamber Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leyland,_Lancashire" title="Leyland, Lancashire">Leyland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penwortham" title="Penwortham">Penwortham</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Suburbs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moss_Side,_South_Ribble" title="Moss Side, South Ribble">Moss Side</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walton_Summit" title="Walton Summit">Walton Summit</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Villages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_Green" title="Coupe Green">Coupe Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farington" title="Farington">Farington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farington_Moss" title="Farington Moss">Farington Moss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregson_Lane" title="Gregson Lane">Gregson Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Higher_Walton,_Lancashire" title="Higher Walton, Lancashire">Higher Walton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howick_Cross" title="Howick Cross">Howick Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutton,_Lancashire" title="Hutton, Lancashire">Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longton,_Lancashire" title="Longton, Lancashire">Longton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lostock_Hall" title="Lostock Hall">Lostock Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mellor_Brook" title="Mellor Brook">Mellor Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midge_Hall" title="Midge Hall">Midge Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Much_Hoole" title="Much Hoole">Much Hoole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Longton" title="New Longton">New Longton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samlesbury" title="Samlesbury">Samlesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walmer_Bridge" title="Walmer Bridge">Walmer Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walton-le-Dale" title="Walton-le-Dale">Walton-le-Dale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitestake" title="Whitestake">Whitestake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parishes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cuerdale" title="Cuerdale">Cuerdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farington" title="Farington">Farington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutton,_Lancashire" title="Hutton, Lancashire">Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Hoole" title="Little Hoole">Little Hoole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longton,_Lancashire" title="Longton, Lancashire">Longton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Much_Hoole" title="Much Hoole">Much Hoole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penwortham" title="Penwortham">Penwortham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samlesbury" title="Samlesbury">Samlesbury</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ribble_Estuary" class="mw-redirect" title="Ribble Estuary">Ribble Estuary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Lancashire_Coastal_Plain" title="West Lancashire Coastal Plain">West Lancashire Coastal Plain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Darwen" title="River Darwen">Darwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Douglas,_Lancashire" title="River Douglas, Lancashire">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Lostock" title="River Lostock">Lostock</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ribble</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Worden_Park" title="Worden Park">Worden Park</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Preston">Brookfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadley,_Lancashire" title="Cadley, Lancashire">Cadley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottam,_Lancashire" class="mw-redirect" title="Cottam, Lancashire">Cottam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deepdale,_Preston" title="Deepdale, Preston">Deepdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulwood,_Lancashire" title="Fulwood, Lancashire">Fulwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greyfriars,_Preston" title="Greyfriars, Preston">Greyfriars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingol" title="Ingol">Ingol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larches,_Preston" title="Larches, Preston">Larches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lea,_Lancashire" title="Lea, Lancashire">Lea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plungington" title="Plungington">Plungington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ribbleton" title="Ribbleton">Ribbleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riversway" title="Riversway">Riversway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharoe_Green" title="Sharoe Green">Sharoe Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tulketh" title="Tulketh">Tulketh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Villages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barton,_Preston" title="Barton, Preston">Barton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broughton,_Lancashire" title="Broughton, Lancashire">Broughton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catforth" title="Catforth">Catforth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumeragh_Village" class="mw-redirect" title="Cumeragh Village">Cumeragh Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eaves,_Lancashire" title="Eaves, Lancashire">Eaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goosnargh" title="Goosnargh">Goosnargh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grimsargh" title="Grimsargh">Grimsargh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inglewhite" title="Inglewhite">Inglewhite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lea_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Lea Town">Lea Town</a></li> <li><a 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Preston">Miller Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moor_Park,_Preston" title="Moor Park, Preston">Moor Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winckley_Square" title="Winckley Square">Winckley Square</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Woodland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beacon_Fell,_Lancashire" title="Beacon Fell, Lancashire">Beacon Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fernyhalgh_Wood" title="Fernyhalgh Wood">Fernyhalgh Wood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Waterways</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster_Canal" title="Lancaster Canal">Lancaster Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ribble_Link" title="Ribble Link">Ribble Link</a></li> <li><a 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Geography of the <a href="/wiki/Ribble_Valley" title="Ribble Valley">Borough of Ribble Valley</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clitheroe" title="Clitheroe">Clitheroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longridge" title="Longridge">Longridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Villages<br />and suburbs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balderstone,_Lancashire" title="Balderstone, Lancashire">Balderstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barrow,_Lancashire" title="Barrow, Lancashire">Barrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashall_Eaves" title="Bashall Eaves">Bashall Eaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billington,_Lancashire" title="Billington, Lancashire">Billington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton-by-Bowland" title="Bolton-by-Bowland">Bolton-by-Bowland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brockhall_Village" title="Brockhall Village">Brockhall Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatburn" title="Chatburn">Chatburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chipping,_Lancashire" title="Chipping, Lancashire">Chipping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton-le-Dale" title="Clayton-le-Dale">Clayton-le-Dale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinckley" title="Dinckley">Dinckley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downham,_Lancashire" title="Downham, Lancashire">Downham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunsop_Bridge" title="Dunsop Bridge">Dunsop Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisburn" title="Gisburn">Gisburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Mitton" title="Great Mitton">Great Mitton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grindleton" title="Grindleton">Grindleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton,_Lancashire" title="Horton, Lancashire">Horton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurst_Green,_Lancashire" title="Hurst Green, Lancashire">Hurst Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langho" title="Langho">Langho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Low_Moor,_Lancashire" title="Low Moor, Lancashire">Low Moor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mellor_Brook" title="Mellor Brook">Mellor Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mellor,_Lancashire" title="Mellor, Lancashire">Mellor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middop" title="Middop">Middop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newsholme,_Lancashire" title="Newsholme, Lancashire">Newsholme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton-in-Bowland" title="Newton-in-Bowland">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osbaldeston" title="Osbaldeston">Osbaldeston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paythorne" title="Paythorne">Paythorne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendleton,_Lancashire" title="Pendleton, Lancashire">Pendleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Read,_Lancashire" title="Read, Lancashire">Read</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ribchester" title="Ribchester">Ribchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rimington" title="Rimington">Rimington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabden" title="Sabden">Sabden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salesbury" title="Salesbury">Salesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sawley,_Lancashire" title="Sawley, Lancashire">Sawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simonstone,_Lancashire" title="Simonstone, Lancashire">Simonstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slaidburn" title="Slaidburn">Slaidburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stydd" title="Stydd">Stydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tosside" title="Tosside">Tosside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twiston" title="Twiston">Twiston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waddington,_Lancashire" title="Waddington, Lancashire">Waddington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bradford,_Lancashire" title="West Bradford, Lancashire">West Bradford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whalley,_Lancashire" title="Whalley, Lancashire">Whalley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitewell" title="Whitewell">Whitewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilpshire" title="Wilpshire">Wilpshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiswell" title="Wiswell">Wiswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worston" title="Worston">Worston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York,_Lancashire" title="York, Lancashire">York</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parishes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aighton,_Bailey_and_Chaigley" title="Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley">Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balderstone,_Lancashire" title="Balderstone, Lancashire">Balderstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashall_Eaves" title="Bashall Eaves">Bashall Eaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billington_and_Langho" title="Billington and Langho">Billington and Langho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton-by-Bowland" title="Bolton-by-Bowland">Bolton-by-Bowland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowland_Forest_High" title="Bowland Forest High">Bowland Forest High</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowland_Forest_Low" title="Bowland Forest Low">Bowland Forest Low</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowland-with-Leagram" title="Bowland-with-Leagram">Bowland-with-Leagram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatburn" title="Chatburn">Chatburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chipping,_Lancashire" title="Chipping, Lancashire">Chipping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton-le-Dale" title="Clayton-le-Dale">Clayton-le-Dale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clitheroe" title="Clitheroe">Clitheroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinckley" title="Dinckley">Dinckley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downham,_Lancashire" title="Downham, Lancashire">Downham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutton,_Lancashire" title="Dutton, Lancashire">Dutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easington,_Lancashire" title="Easington, Lancashire">Easington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisburn" title="Gisburn">Gisburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisburn_Forest" title="Gisburn Forest">Gisburn Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Mitton" title="Great Mitton">Great Mitton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grindleton" title="Grindleton">Grindleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton,_Lancashire" title="Horton, Lancashire">Horton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hothersall" title="Hothersall">Hothersall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Mitton" title="Little Mitton">Little Mitton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longridge" title="Longridge">Longridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mearley" title="Mearley">Mearley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mellor,_Lancashire" title="Mellor, Lancashire">Mellor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middop" title="Middop">Middop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newsholme,_Lancashire" title="Newsholme, Lancashire">Newsholme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton-in-Bowland" title="Newton-in-Bowland">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osbaldeston" title="Osbaldeston">Osbaldeston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paythorne" title="Paythorne">Paythorne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendleton,_Lancashire" title="Pendleton, Lancashire">Pendleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsgreave" title="Ramsgreave">Ramsgreave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Read,_Lancashire" title="Read, Lancashire">Read</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ribchester" title="Ribchester">Ribchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rimington" title="Rimington">Rimington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabden" title="Sabden">Sabden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salesbury" title="Salesbury">Salesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sawley,_Lancashire" title="Sawley, Lancashire">Sawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simonstone,_Lancashire" title="Simonstone, Lancashire">Simonstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slaidburn" title="Slaidburn">Slaidburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornley-with-Wheatley" title="Thornley-with-Wheatley">Thornley-with-Wheatley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twiston" title="Twiston">Twiston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waddington,_Lancashire" title="Waddington, Lancashire">Waddington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bradford,_Lancashire" title="West Bradford, Lancashire">West Bradford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whalley,_Lancashire" title="Whalley, Lancashire">Whalley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilpshire" title="Wilpshire">Wilpshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiswell" title="Wiswell">Wiswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worston" title="Worston">Worston</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brennand_Farm" title="Brennand Farm">Centre of Great Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forest_of_Bowland" title="Forest of Bowland">Forest of Bowland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forest_of_Pendle" title="Forest of Pendle">Forest of Pendle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stocks_Reservoir" title="Stocks Reservoir">Stocks Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonyhurst" title="Stonyhurst">Stonyhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trough_of_Bowland" title="Trough of Bowland">Trough of Bowland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Footpaths</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ribble_Way" title="Ribble Way">Ribble Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Witches_Walk" title="Lancashire Witches Walk">Lancashire Witches Walk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hills</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Easington_Fell" title="Easington Fell">Easington Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fair_Snape_Fell" title="Fair Snape Fell">Fair Snape Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthornthwaite_Fell" title="Hawthornthwaite Fell">Hawthornthwaite Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longridge_Fell" title="Longridge Fell">Longridge Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parlick" title="Parlick">Parlick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendle_Hill" title="Pendle Hill">Pendle Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Hill_(Forest_of_Bowland)" title="White Hill (Forest of Bowland)">White Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfhole_Crag" title="Wolfhole Crag">Wolfhole Crag</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Waterways</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bashall_Brook" title="Bashall Brook">Bashall Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinckley_Brook" 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