Ribbleton, Lancashire

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Ribbleton is a suburban area in Preston, Lancashire

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ribbleton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ribbleton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ribbleton, township, Preston par., N. Lancashire, mostly in bor. of Preston, 649 ac., pop. 575; at Ribbleton Moor the Duke of Hamilton was defeated, in 1648, by Cromwell, and the insurgents, in 1715, by Generals Willes and Carpenter.

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