Ribchester, Lancashire

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Ribchester is a village in Lancashire

Other current and historical names

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

Ribchester in historic gazetteers

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

Ribchester, small town, par., and township, NE. Lancashire, on river Ribble, 5½ miles NW. of Blackburn - par., 7685 ac., pop. 5378; township, 2211 ac., pop. 1282; P.O.; occupies the she of a Roman station, and has yielded numerous Roman relics.

Ribchester in the Domesday Book

A village in Amounderness hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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