Entwistle is a village in the
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackburn with Darwen is a borough and unitary authority area in Lancashire, North West England. It consists of the industrial town of Blackburn and the market town of Darwen including other villages around the two towns.
Formation
It was fou ...
unitary authority in
Lancashire in the
north west of England.
Its name derives from the
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''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.
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.
Entwistle Hall is a 16th-century farmhouse which dates from the time of the Entwistle family. It is a
Grade II listed building. The south facing front of the Hall still has many Tudor features including
mullioned windows
A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units its primary purpose is a rigid supp ...
with
dripstone headings.
Entwistle railway station
Entwistle railway station (first opened in 1848) is north of Bolton and serves the village of Entwistle. It is also the closest station to Edgworth. Unlike nearby the station lies outside the Transport for Greater Manchester boundary, meani ...
, situated between
Darwen and
Bromley Cross railway station
Bromley Cross railway station, on Chapeltown Road in Bromley Cross, a suburb to the north of Bolton, England, is served by the Northern 'Ribble Valley' line north of Bolton. The station is just south of the point where the double line merg ...
s on the line between Blackburn and Bolton, is a request stop. The station is situated close to the Strawbury Duck
public house.
Strawbury Duck, Edgworth, Lancashire
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Nearby streams have been dammed to form the Wayoh and Turton and Entwistle Reservoir
Turton and Entwistle Reservoir is a water reservoir in the village of Edgworth, Lancashire, England. The reservoir's existence is due to the Entwistle Dam. When constructed in 1832 the Entwistle Dam was the highest in Britain; it rises 108 feet ...
s. 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 1,000 feet above sea level and consists of some 1,668 acres.
Notable people
*James Brandwood
James Brandwood (1739–1826) was an English Quaker minister.
Life
Brandwood was born at New House in Entwistle, near Rochdale, Lancashire, England, on 11 November 1739; his parents were of yeoman stock. After a visit to the Friends' meeting a ...
(1739–1826), Quaker minister
References
Notes
Bibliography
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External links
Villages in Lancashire
Geography of Blackburn with Darwen
West Pennine Moors
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