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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Think you are right in your assessment there Sue.
I worked in Rawtenstall in the early sixties and it was always Rossendale back then.
I never really liked the name Hyndburn......and if asked where I am from I always say Accrington.
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Perhaps it was a half way house naming it Hyndburn?
Half of it being named after a no longer existing pub on blacburn rd the other half, burn getting folk used to the idea that we will become a suburb of wanna be City?