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From: "Phil Hudson" <>
Subject: Re: [WRY] Where is Bentham?
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 01:08:29 +0100
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Hi just in case anyone has an interest in the Bentham Mills, I have just
published a small, 28 page booklet on this topic.
cheers
Phil Hudson. BA(OU), BEd(Hons), M.Phil. Procter Ho. Kirkgate, Settle,
N.Yorks. BD24 9DZ.
HUDSON HISTORY OF SETTLE
Editor and publisher of Yorkshire History Quarterly and Lancashire History
Quarterly. and Industrial Heritage Journal
Antiquarian Bookseller, landscape research, Industrial Archaeologist.
Desktop Publishing, and booklet printing.
Web pages for Armitstead, Dawson, Harling and others. Indexes to Contrebis
and LHQ & YHQ journals, and much more.
http://www.users.daelnet.co.uk/hudson-history/
----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor Williams <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WRY] Where is Bentham?


> I am most grateful to everyone who so kindly took the trouble to clarify
the
> location of BENTHAM in 1796 for me. What a wonderful response!
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Trevor
> Melbourne, Australia
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Trevor Williams <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [WRY] Where is Bentham?
>
>
> > Roy Stockdill kindly wrote as follows, and several others generously
> > answered my query about the location of Bentham *in 1796* in similar
> terms.
> > Roy said:
> >
> >
> > >>IN fact, Lower Bentham is just about the western-most point in
> Yorkshire.
> > It is no more than 10 miles as the crow flows from the village to the
sea
> > at Morecambe Bay. Pre-1974 reorganisation, there was a point in the
> Forest
> > of Bowland further south, by Fell Top, which was arguably a mile or so
> > further west in Yorkshire. But that area is now part of Lancashire,
> thanks
> > to the barmpots in Whitehall
> >
> >
> > I apologise for being a bit slow on this one, but am I to understand
that
> > when a *1796* marriage record says that Bentham was in Lancashire, then
a
> > data entry error is to be presumed??? (Especially since other records
give
> > Yorkshire as the location.)
> >
> > That is, am I correct in interpreting the kind replies as saying Bentham
> is
> > and always was in Yorkshire, pre-1974, and including as long ago as
1796??
> >
> > I probably appear to be a bit dense about this, but I really am trying
> very
> > hard to establish which county the place was in, in *1796*.
> >
> > Another question: are Greater, Lesser, Higher, Lower Bentham, all the
> same
> > place?
> >
> > All of these descriptors have been mentioned in responses to my original
> > post.
> >
> > I am still a bit puzzled.... sorry!
> >
> > Trevor
> > Melbourne, Australia
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ______________________________

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