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390:Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
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529:"Bowland Interactive Visitor Map"
214:Heigham Close olim Nether-heigham
502:Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1818),
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161:Middle Ages
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980:Stock Beck
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913:Weets Hill
903:Noyna Hill
882:Pendle Way
872:Brontë Way
835:Topography
761:Brierfield
746:Barrowford
670:Higherford
650:Cottontree
635:Barrowford
599:Brierfield
539:12 October
435:References
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354:Barrowford
298:Redhalowes
272:Barrowford
194:Newelawnde
133:Rossendale
129:Accrington
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110:Pontefract
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153:Edward II
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106:de Lacy
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700:Sough
655:Fence
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