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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "SOUTH RIBBLE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CROSSENS	Lancashire	Ribble's estuary, 3½ miles NE by N of Southport r. station. It was constituted in 1860; and it has a post office under South	Imperial
  FURNESS	Lancashire	Ribble, near Preston; and they were at first Benedictines, but afterwards became Cistertians. The abbey was a mother one, having under it seven monasteries in England, one in Ireland, and one in the Isle of Man; and it disputed with Fountains abbey in Yorkshire the claim of being the primal Cistertian institution in England. It possessed the vast powers of the lordship of Furness in virtue, not only of a grant by King Stephen, but of ratifications by twelve subsequent kings; it obtained special favours from two popes; and it acquired much of its enormous property, piece by piece	Imperial
  HUMBER (THE)	Lincolnshire	south-easterly direction as from Paull, with a width, as measured from different headlands on the S side of 5½ and 7½ miles. Its length, from the head to Paull, is 18½ miles; and from Paull to Spurn Head 17¾ miles. Its depth, for the most part, is from 2 to 12 fathoms. It receives the rivers Foulness and Hull, and some smaller streams; and it is computed to drain about 10, 000 square miles. It forms the marine outlet to a vast extent of inland navigation by river and canal, ramified through Yorkshire, Lincolnshire	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	LANCASHIRE , a maritime and northern county; bounded on the N, by Cumberland and Westmoreland; on the E, by Yorkshire; on	Imperial
  Lancashire, or Lancaster	Lancashire	Ribble. Towards the shore, which comprises great stretches of sand, the land has generally a flat appearance. In the N. and E. it becomes more elevated, but the chief heights are in Furness, where an alt. of 2633 ft. is reached at Coniston Old Man. The principal rivers are the Mersey, Ribble, Lune, Wyre, Winster, and Leven. Peat prevails in the soil of the upland districts, while much of the low lying land consists of a rich loam. The chief crops are oats, wheat, and potatoes. (For agricultural statistics, see Appendix.) Carboniferous limestone abounds in the N. part	Bartholomew
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England	Imperial
  Manchester	Lancashire	Manchester , parl. and mun. bor., city, par., and township, SE. Lancashire, on rivers Irk, Irwell, and Medlock, 31 miles E	Bartholomew
  RIBBLE (The)	Lancashire	RIBBLE (The) , a river of Yorkshire and Lancashire. It rises on Whernside mountain, in Yorkshire; runssouthward, past Settle and Gisburn, to the boundary with Lancashire; traces that boundary 5¾ miles south	Imperial
  Yorkshire, West-Riding	Yorkshire	Ribble, Nidd, Calder, Don, Aire, and Wharfe. The West-Riding is the seat of Yorkshire industrial enterprise. The great Yorkshire coalfield, on which all the staple mfrs. of the Riding are situated, is a space 45 miles by 20 miles, between the Aire and the Don. Some of the leading branches of national industry have long had their seat in the West-Riding - woollens at Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury, and Huddersfield; linens at Leeds and Barnsley; and hardware, cutlery, and plated goods at Sheffield. There are mineral waters at Harrogate, Knaresborough, and Ilkley Wells. On the N. and E. sides	Bartholomew

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