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Believe it or not by Hyndburn starts close to the Whitebirk Industrial Estate Blackburn so that would put Rishton as part of Hyndburn.

On the main road from Blackburn to Darwen it is houses all the way. The boundary is just before where the motorway crosses. There is a lay-by where the buses and trams used to turn round to go back to Blackburn.

Using the Roman Road you do go through countryside for about a mile or so though.

On the main road from Blackburn to West End there are still some fields. For how long?

On the road from Knuzden to Shadsworth, Blackburn it is houses all the way.

There are fields between Rishton and Blackburn. But again – for how long?

Rules Gayle, as we well know, can be and are changed to suit the rule maker.