Entwistle, Lancashire

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Coordinates: 53°39′14″N 2°24′47″W / 53.654°N 2.413°W / 53.654; -2.413
Entwistle
Entwistle

 Entwistle shown within Lancashire
OS grid reference SD727176
Unitary authority Blackburn with Darwen
Ceremonial county Lancashire
Region North West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BOLTON
Postcode district BL7
Dialling code 01204
Police Lancashire
Fire Lancashire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament Rossendale and Darwen
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Entwistle is a village in the Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority in Lancashire in the north west of England.

Its name derives from the Old English ened and twisla which means a river fork frequented by ducks. The name was recorded as Hennetwisel in 1212, Ennetwysel in 1276 and Entwissell in 1311. Entwistle is situated in a fork between the Edgeworth Brook and a smaller tributary.[1][2] Entwistle was originally a township in the chapelry of Turton which was part of the large ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the hundred of Salford.[3]

Entwistle railway station. situated between Darwen and Bromley Cross railway stations on the line between Blackburn and Bolton is a request stop. The station is situated close to the Strawbury Duck public house.[4]

Nearby streams have been dammed to form the Wayoh and Turton and Entwistle Reservoirs. The area is popular with walkers, anglers and joggers.

Entwistle, which lies to the North Eastern corner of the old Turton Urban District (which also includes: Edgworth, Quarlton, Bradshaw, Harwood, Turton and Longworth) is about 1000 ft above sea level and consists of some1668 acres.


References

Notes

  1. ↑ Mills 1976, p. 82
  2. ↑ Entwistle Township Map, genuki.org, retrieved 2011-05-16 
  3. ↑ "Entwistle", A Topographical Dictionary of England (British History Online), 1848: 623–627, retrieved 2011-05-13 
  4. ↑ Strawbury Duck, Edgworth, Lancashire. Pictures of England. Retrieved 14 August 2010.

Bibliography

  • Mills, David (1976), The Placenames of Lancashire, Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-5236-6 

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