Content deleted Content added
m →History |
|||
Line 129:
The traditional date for the coming of Christianity to Blackburn is [[596]]<ref>[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=NMR_NATINV-43508 Church of St. Mary the Virgin], Archaeology Data Service. Retrieved 31 January 2007.</ref> or [[598|598 AD]]<ref>Lancashire County Council (2005), ''Lancashire Historic Town Survey: Blackburn'', p. 17.</ref> and the town was certainly important during the [[Anglo-Saxon]] era. It was during this period that [[Blackburnshire|Blackburnshire Hundred]] came into existence, probably as a territorial division of the kingdom of [[Northumbria]]<ref>Lancashire County Council (2005), ''Lancashire Historic Town Survey: Blackburn'', p. 17.</ref>.
The name of the town first appears in the [[Domesday Book]] as ''Blachebourne'', a royal manor during the days of [[Edward the Confessor]] and [[William the Conqueror]]. Archaeological evidence gleaned during the demolition of the medieval parish church on the site of the present Cathedral in 1820 suggests that a church was built during the late eleventh/early twelfth century<ref>Lancashire County Council (2005), ''Lancashire Historic Town Survey: Blackburn'', p. 17.</ref>. A market cross was also erected nearby in [[1101]]<ref>[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=NMR_NATINV-43500 Market Cross], Archaeological Data Society. Retrieved 31 January 2007.</ref>
The manor came into the possession of Henry de Blackburn, who divided it between his two sons. Later, one half was granted to the monks of [[Stanlow Abbey]]. This [[moiety]] was later granted to the monks of [[Whalley Abbey]].
However, during the twelfth century, the town's conjectured importance declined as [[Clitheroe]] became the regional centre<ref>Lancashire County Council (2005), ''Lancashire Historic Town Survey: Blackburn'', p. 17.</ref>.
In addition to the settlement in the town centre area, there were several other medieval domiciles located nearby.
===Early Modern Blackburn===
===Industrial Blackburn===
The [[Industrial Revolution]] enabled Blackburn to develop its cotton industry from a cottage industry, using hand-powered looms, to a global concern.
The first large-scale mill was opened in [[1779]] at Wensley Fold, west of the town centre<ref>''The First Cotton Mill'', Blackburn Times, 20 May 1938.</ref>. This was followed in [[1797]] by Spring Hill Mill, a steam powered mill in the town centre.
===Blackburn today===
==Meaning of place-name==
| |||