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This is my first attempt at publishing a web site and the content will be added to in due course . I live in Barnoldswick and this web site is aimed at showing you some of the scenes and history of the town . I have put some of my personal details here as well . Use the menu on the left to browse around , if you have any comments to make ( good or bad ) please contact me via my e-mail address .

Early History of Barnoldswick

Barnoldswick is a town situated on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border dating back to a settlement of the Anglo Saxon era , possibly around the 9 th or 10 th      century. The name  Barnoldswick  being derived from " Bernulfeswic" or Bernulf’s settlement . It may be a possibility that Bernulf was Beornwulf , King of the Mercians.

A group of Cistercian monks from Fountains Abbey came to build a monastery in the town in 1147 , but history states that the local villagers and Monks did not get on together and eventually around 1152 the monks left the area and built Kirkstall Abbey instead .

The monks returned however to build the church of St. Mary-le-Gill between 1157 and 1160 .The reason that the church was built  so far outside the settlement is a mystery , perhaps it was  built to serve Barnoldswick , Marton and Thornton , another theory is that this is the true site of Mond Sanctae Mariae ( Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey ) .

The local name for Barnoldswick is "Barlick " and local people are called  " Barlickers" . Hence the name for my Web site

Crow Foot Row . This is a very old part of the town .These cottages  were built in 1824.They do not have a back door and the second floor in most of them was used  as bedroom and for hand looms.

Esp Lane cottages.

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