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corresponded in any way to the later boundary between
Lancashire and Yorkshire". Indeed, he even suggests that Amounderness may have been a "subdivision of Craven" which he describes as "stretching from the Irish Sea over the Pennines to touch the Yorkshire wapentakes of Burghshire and 'Skyrack'" ...
342:" or meeting place and the element "-ness" (ON, promontory) suggests the Over-Wyre as one distinct possibility. There is some evidence to suggest the line of the Wyre/Calder rivers may have marked a north–south sub-division of the hundred in the early 10th century.
467:. Once thought a spoil of battle, the area had in fact been purchased by Aethelstan in 926. According to the grant, the extent of Amounderness was much greater than its present-day counterpart being the land "from the sea along the
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Preston Registration District. It consisted of
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Amounderness whose "sylvan domains ... at Dunton Park ... boasted much noble timber". Ainsworth's protagonist Mervyn Clitheroe shoots a buck "in the domains of Lord Amounderness."
819:. On the State of the Western Portion of the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland, Down to the Period of the Norman Conquest 1–22. Vol. 6. Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. p. 21.
833:
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refers to the westerly tributary of the river (i.e. the
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510:. However, Thorn argues that "it was only along the river Hodder on the western and south-western edges of the Forest of Bowland that the division between Amounderness and
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1059:. London: Alecto Historical Editions. pp. 43–49.
1012:. London: Alecto Historical Editions. pp. 43–54.
986:. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. pp. 505–508.
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487:". It is unclear from this description whether
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1097:Ainsworth, William Harrison (1 January 1858).
903:"An Introduction to the Lancashire Domesday":
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380:("protection"). The name appears in
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794:. Kessinger Publishing. p. 2.
1139:Amounderness registration district
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54:Amounderness Hundred depicted in
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956:De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea
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864:Wednesfield: The Field of Woden
637:Amounderness in popular culture
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322:, all four of whom died at the
1293:History of the City of Preston
953:Leland, John (November 1970).
372:("point, weapon point"), with
361:. The etymology of Agmundr is
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922:The Place-names of Lancashire
376:, from Old West Scandinavian
347:The Place-names of Lancashire
451:Amounderness was granted to
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1007:"Hundreds and Wapentakes":
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316:Eowils, Halfdan and Ingwaer
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787:Porter, John (June 2008).
647:William Harrison Ainsworth
504:Norman conquest of England
357:and the late 11th-century
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524:East Riding of Yorkshire
1129:Ainsworth (1858), p.167
1056:The Lancashire Domesday
1023:Ekwall, Eilert (1922).
1009:The Lancashire Domesday
919:Ekwall, Eilert (1922).
905:The Lancashire Domesday
409:Ecgfrith of Northumbria
24:Hundred of Amounderness
1298:Hundreds of Lancashire
665:Fulwood Urban District
661:Preston Rural District
283:Hundreds of Lancashire
1308:English royal forests
830:Gibson, T.A. (1840).
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422:Vita Sancti Wilfrithi
363:Old West Scandinavian
231:Etymology and history
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324:Battle of Tettenhall
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623:A585 road
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568:Blackpool
534:Geography
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