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BOLTON BY BOWLAND:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"BOLTON BY BOWLAND, a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, a little to the S. W. of Gisburn, had anciently a mon. which is now a fr. s. the noble benefaction of the Hon. Robert Boyle. It was in the R. of Hen. III. the seat and manor of a branch of the family of Scrope, and afterwards the seat of the E. of Burlington."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]