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Lancashire Cheese Press in Bashall Eaves |
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Bashall Eaves
Bashall Eaves shown within Lancashire |
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| Population | 162 (2001 Census) |
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| OS grid reference | SD695435 |
| Parish | Bashall Eaves |
| District | Ribble Valley |
| Shire county | Lancashire |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CLITHEROE |
| Postcode district | BB7 |
| Dialling code | 01254/01200 |
| Police | Lancashire |
| Fire | Lancashire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | Ribble Valley |
| List of places: UK • England • Lancashire | |
Bashall Eaves is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, about four miles (6 km) west of Clitheroe. The placename element eaves is Old English and refers to Bashall's location on the borders of the Forest of Bowland.
According to the 2001 census, the parish of Bashall Eaves had a population of 162.[1] It covers an area of almost 4000 acres. The village, known locally as Bashall Town, is home to The Red Pump Inn, a post office, a telephone box and a selection of farms as well as the Bowland Brewery.
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Historically, Bashall or "Beckshalgh" which means the hill by the brooks, formed part of the ancient Lordship of Bowland which comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost 300 square miles (800 km2) on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The manors within the Liberty were Slaidburn (Newton-in-Bowland, West Bradford, Grindleton), Knowlmere, Waddington, Easington, Bashall, Mitton, Withgill (Crook) , Leagram, Hammerton and Dunnow (Battersby).[2] There is still a fine Georgian manor house close to Bashall Eaves.
The manor of Bashall was granted by Edmund de Lacy, 6th Lord of Bowland, to Thomas Talbot in 1253. It remained in the Talbot family until the early seventeenth century. The Talbot Arms at Chipping commemorates the family's close association with the town. The Taylor family were lords of the manor from 1806.[3]
In 1934, there was a murder in the village; when detectives investigated the shooting of Jim Dawson, they were met with a "wall of silence" from local residents, and the crime is still unsolved.[4]
The civil parish was created from the ancient township of Bashall Eaves in 1866.[5] It currently shares a parish council with the neighbouring civil parishes of Great Mitton and Little Mitton.