Belthorn
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Belthorn is a small moorland village situated to the south-east of Blackburn in Lancashire, England. It is about half a kilometre away from junction 5 of the M65 motorway, which runs from Colne to Preston. Surrounded by ancient fields, farmsteads and moorland ways the village perches on the edge of the West Pennine Moors with views of Pendle Hill, the Ribble Valley, Longridge Fell and out over Blackburn and Preston to the sea at Blackpool.
Belthorn has an excellent primary school and a large playing field ('The Rec') with a children's recreational area with swings etc.
The village has two pubs: the Dog Inn and the Pack Horse; the Pack Horse is an Italian restaurant and the Dog Inn serves pub food. There is also a small post office and local shop, and a drum emporium housed in the old Co-op. Syke Mill, an old weaving shed, nestles in the bottom of the village across from the manse, alongside a restored lodge, or millpond.
The houses are mainly old weavers' cottages. Most of the village is in Hyndburn, though some of the houses, including those higher up in the village, are in Blackburn with Darwen.
[edit] Governance
The village is divided between the unitary authority of Blackburn with Darwen and the district of Hyndburn, both of which have borough status. The portion of the village within Blackburn with Darwen is largely within the ancient parish (now a civil parish) of Yate and Pickup Bank, with a small area in the north of the village formerly in the parish of Lower Darwen. The part of the village in Hyndburn was formerly part of the township of Oswaldtwistle.
[edit] References
- BELTHORN Mike Rothwell Caxton Printing Co. 1987
- BELTHORN VILLAGE Hyndburn Historical Society Summer Walk 1979 Private Printing
