what is the real name for the river stink
 

hi doin a quiz and dont know the real name for the river which runs under arndale anyone lnow?

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It's the river hyndburn dark angel.

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nice one cheers

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[quote author=janet link=board=qanda;num=1071504674;start=0#1 date=12/15/03 at 17:14:22]It's the river hyndburn dark angel.[/quote]

When I was a kid it was so poluted that you could walk on it.

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flashman. a.k.a. jesus. lol

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Do you remember the smell round the back of the Bridge Pub coming from that err River - sulpher I think it was?

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O'h, that's what it was, always thought it was rotting wild life. ???

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I think it is actually called the River Hynd, Burn is another word for a small river - therefore Hyndburn was born as a region, meaning "Little River Hynd." Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Sorry Jo, but . . . . . it is def. called the River Hyndburn

Atarah

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yep Jo. You're definatly wrong on this...."burn" is one of the old celtic words for river..............the Hyndburn has always been called the Hyndburn and the name was adopted in 1974 at the time of local government reorganisation because the idea was the river flowed all the local authorities (Church, Rishton, Clayton, Gt. Harwood, etc) being amalgamated with Accrington.....although I'm not to sure about Ozzy.....(maybe the Tinker being a tributary of the Hyndburn makes it count)...

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well these are intrasting answers   yawn.

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I'll eat my hat then. Sorry 'bout that, was quite convinced. Thanks for putting me right!  ;)

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Gosh, I know that this is old but I'm just trawling through. Could it be that at one time it was known as the Hynd Burn (two words), which later became linked as one word, and then became known as the River Hyndburn? Just a thought from someone who has obviously nothing better to do at the moment.

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All this has been in other threads as well Hindburn
was first mentiond as a boundry in Acc as far back as 1192 ad.
It is the result of Woondnook Water and Warmden Brook meeting at the bottom of Grange Lane, at the junction with Cross St.

Retlaw.

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I was always told that that the river hyndburn was an amalgamation of two words, obviously "burn" is a small river and because Deers "Hynds" were always watering there in days gone by and I mean a few centuries ago, it became known as the River Hyndburn.

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What does post 14 say, 1192 anno domini,
You won't find any earlier documentation than that, and if it was called Hindburn then whats the problem.

Retlaw.

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Whatever the origin of the name, I remember that you could smell it from Swales' farm ... Ringstonhalgh, I think it was called ... it even overpowered the smell of the cow****.

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Yes I was led to believe it was the river hyndburn, and it was a dirty old river..my aunt fell in when she was a child and this resulted in her contracting polio... RIP auntie Dora