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Rawtenstall Town Hall The coat of arms of the former Rawtenstall Borough Council. A local board was formed for the town in 1874 and the district it governed was extended to cover parts of the townships of Lower Booths (Rawtenstall itself), Higher Booths, Newchurch and Haslingden in the ancient parish of Whalley and Cowpe, Lench, Newhall Hey and Hall Carr, and part of Tottington (Higher End) in ...
The area includes the steep-sided valleys of the River Irwell and its tributaries (between Rawtenstall and Bacup), which flow southwards into Greater Manchester. The rivers cut through the moorland of the Rossendale Hills, generally characterized by open unwooded land, despite the ancient designation of "forest".
The area's only semi-pro non league football team are Bacup Borough F.C. who play their home games at West View and are members of the North West Counties League Division One. The area's other major non league side Rossendale United, who played their home games at nearby Newchurch near Rawtenstall, folded in 2011.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was employed to determine areas of activation in the cerebellar cortex in humans during a series of motor tasks. The activation areas for movements of lips, tongue, hands, and feet were determined and found to be sharply confined to lobules and sublobules and their sagittal zones in the rostral and caudal spinocerebellar cortex.
Newchurch-in-Rossendale was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Whalley, [4] in 1866 Newchurch became a separate civil parish, [5] in 1894 the parish was abolished to form Bacup and Rawtenstall. [6] In 1891 the parish had a population of 1190. [7] It is now in the unparished area of Rawtenstall. The village is built on a hill, Seat Naze.
Lumb is a small village in the Rossendale district of Lancashire, England.It lies in the valley of the Whitewell Brook, 3 miles (5 km) north east of Rawtenstall.It should not be confused with the hamlet of Lumb near Edenfield, also in the Rossendale district.
The name Bacup is derived from the Old English fūlbæchop.The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names translates this as "muddy valley by a ridge"; the fūl-element, which meant "foul" or "muddy" was used in the earliest known reference to the area, in a charter by Robert de Lacey, around the year 1200, as used in the Middle English spelling fulebachope. [6]
It lies adjacent south of the town of Rawtenstall and is served by Lomas Lane. It was historically agricultural and then industrial, and is now almost exclusively residential. It was historically agricultural and then industrial, and is now almost exclusively residential.