14 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, December 14th, 2006


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■ Ciitheroe 422324 (Editorial); 422323 (Advertising), Bumiey 422331 (Classified) THE THURSDAY FEATURE SPOTLIGHT ON. ..


A glimpse of the Valley’s past courtesy of an ancient map


by Duncan Smith ^ ~


A FASCINATING glimpse into the past can be had by poring over a new


series of historical maps. Anyone with a passion for local history


will love rediscovering the landscape of a Kibble Valley long since lost to progress, but revealed again in the “Old Series” map published by Cassini. The original publication of Ordnance Sur­


vey’s “Old Series” one-inch-to-the-mile maps began in 1805, inspired by the threat of French invasion. The military protecting the vulnerable


south coast needed a detailed survey of the area, but the project soon became national, taking nearly 70 years to survey the whole of England and Wales. These fascinating Old Series maps provide an immaculate record of our traditional agrarian landscape just before the headlong rush towards urbanisation, before growing towns started to swallow up surrounding villages and while canals were still enjoying their hey­ day. Until now, differences in scale, projection and coverage have made the old maps hard


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to compare with present-day versions, Ito lim- iting their usefulness for any serious study of the past. Now Cassini has solved this problem by digitally enhancing, rescaling and reprojecting the Old Series maps to exactly match Ordnance Survey’s current- day Landranger series. They even have the same map numbers (103 for Blackburn, Burnley and the Kibble Valley) and the familiar British National Grid references. Cassini’s James Anderson explained:


“The idea was to make the past as accessi­ ble as possible. Looking at old maps can be a disorientating experience without the familiar modern landmarks of motorways and built-up areas. Where the scale and coverage is also different, it can become very hard to locate and compare features. The solution to this problem was to repro­ duce the Old Series maps to exactly match the Landranger grid.” Easier said than done, and it turned out


to be a marathon mapmakihg challenge, but the end result is worth it. “It’s taken two years to locate and scan


the Old Series maps, but we feel the results more than justify the effort,” said Mr Anderson. “They are not only excellent reproduc­


tions of superbly crafted originals, but also relevant to current interest and research needs because of being directly comparable to the Landrangers.” Cassini’s Old Series' 103 map covers a 100


sq. km area stretching from Loiig Preston in the north to Kawtenstall in the south and from Longridge in the west to the Forest of Trawden in the east - exactly the same area as the modern Ordnance Survey Lan­ dranger 103 map. A large portion of the old map is taken up


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A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS A A PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR


take to hills THEKE was a good turnout for Clitheroe Kamblers’ afternoon walk which was based on Norman Thorpe’s Grindleton walk, from the book “25 walks in the Kibble and Hodder Valleys”, but started at a different point. The party set off from


West Bradford and fol­ lowed the Kibble to Laneside, up Greenbank and across the fields towards the Millennium Wood.There was no time, however, to stop and admire the sur­ roundings as they went straight into Grindleton village, up Whitehall Lane to Whitehall - a lovely house. They followed the


road towards Far House Farm, crossed fields and followed a stream to Lowcocks, down the lane to Brocklehurst and West Bradford. The weather improved throughout the walk.


by the Kibble Valley and Forest of Bow- land, showing how it was 150 years ago. Nine of the old one-inch scale maps, rang­ ing in date from 1842 to 1859, have been use to create the new map to the modern scale. The cover of the new map also has a Kib­


ble Valley slant, showing a painting of Clitheroe and its Castle bathed in sunlight, rendered by G. Pickering around 1831. True to the originals, the new map is reproduced in black and white, which takes a little getting used to, but once your-eyes have adjusted, the search for surviving landmarks, roads, monuments, towns and villages becomes all-consuming. Even at this relatively large scale, a magnifying glass will help you to appreciate the detail. And Cassini is right - by far the best way


to use this historic map is alongside its mod­ ern OS Landranger counterpart. By com­ paring the two it is easy to see how towns like Clitheroe have expanded massively in the past 150 years, how new roads, motor­ ways and railways have linked up commu­ nities and how some places have disap­ peared altogether. The most obvious examples of that in the


Kibble Valley are Dalehead and Stocks-in- Bowland, communities “drowned” by the creation of Stocks Keservoir, above Slaid- burn, in the early 1930s. Whatever your reason for studying it, the


Cassini Old Series map helps to draw a clear timeline between the mid-19th Century and the present day. Priced at £6.49, the historical maps are


available from bookshops and direct from Cassini’s website at: www.cassinimaps.com. Our picture shows the cover of the new


map, featuring G. Pickering’s view of a much less developed Clitheroe around 1831..


H e le n ’s p h o to i s fit for a Q u e en


A FABULOUS panoramic photograph of the Hodder Valley has been chosen by Her Majesty the Queen as an 80th birthday gift. The picture was taken by


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local photographer Helen Shaw, of Malkin Photogra­ phy, Slaidburn, who wanted to offer a gift following the Queen’s visit to the Valley ear­ lier this year. Helen initially wrote to ask


Her Majesty whether she would like a landscape photo­ graph of the area as a birth­ day gift. The Queen then examined a niunber of Helen’s photographs and chose one showing Burholme Bridge and the Trough of Bbwland, with the fells around. The 12in. x 16in. image was printed and mounted by Helen, but the Queen wished to choose the frame herself. Commenting on the gift,


HELEN is pictured with the image chosen by the Queeli (s)


Helen said: “I am obviously delighted and honoured that the Queen has chosen one of my images. I understand that


she loves this area and I felt that it was appropriate to show her some of my images of the Duchy of Lancaster land for her to choose from.” This is one of several suc­


cesses for Helen’s photogra­ phy this year. She has also had an image of a garden com­ mended in the Koyal Horti­ cultural Society’s Annual Pho­ tographic Competition, which attracts over 3,000 entries, and another of her garden images was selected for the front page of a National Open Gardens Scheme leaflet for Lancashire. Last year Helen also reached the semi-final stage of the Shell Wildlife Photogra­ pher of the Year Competition. However, her photography is not restricted to landscapes and gardens. She is regularly commissioned for portraits and weddings and has also done commercial work for a country, house hotel and took a private commission to pho­ tograph Sizergh castle.


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Top-quality fish bred to top up stocks in Calder


by Faiza Afzaal


THOUSANDS of fish have been given a new home to help top up an improving Lancashire river. The Environment Agency has bred


10,000 baby roach, which have been added to a 10-mile stretch of the Kiver Calder and its tributaries.from Whalley to Bumiey. • The fish have been reared at the Envi­


ronment Agency's Leyland fish farm, which has recently re-opened after a virus . outbreak in some of its stocks in summer 2004. Improvements have been made to prevent any future outbreak and new screening tests have been developed to detect infection at an early stage in fish considered for breeding. The fish farm, near Preston, will be


used to rear 500,000 fish for restocking rivers across the North West during the next two years.


Mr Grant Talbot, fish farm manager,


said: "These are some of the best quality fish that have been produced in many years and have grown really well. "It's great to see the fish farm up and


running and ready to help improving rivers, such as the Calder, get even better and provide pleasure for anglers in the area." For more information about angling or


to buy a rod licence, log on to www.envi- ronment-agency.gov.uk/fish


Firms help pupils’ anti-bullying plan


PUPILS at a Clitheroe school will be taking part in an Anti-Bullying Scheme thanks to the generosity of two companies. Youngsters in Year 5 at Brookside


Primary School will be taking part in a special six-week course after the Christmas break. Kun by Cheryl Drinkwater from


NACKO - the national crime reduc­ tion charity, the scheme has been funded by Trade Carpets and Nightingales Homecare. Our photograph shows Jacqueline


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Chappell, of Trade Carpets, Shane McClelland, of Nightingales Home- care, headteacher Graham Claydon and Cheryl Drinkwater with pupils. (A071106/1)


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WITH a new image and a new logo - “three miles from Clitheroe: a million miles from hectic,” a character Kibble Val­ ley inn is looking forward to a new future. New owners of the Ked Pump Inn in


Bashall Eaves, Jon and Martina Myer- scough, have invested a great deal into regenerating its guest accommodation in the gloriously situated hamlet. One of the oldest Inns in the Kibble Vial-


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