I managed to drag my self out of my sick bed today to go to Clitheroe to take some snaps .The town never seems to change as you will see by going to the gallery to read about the towns history.

Clitheroe is a small ancient market town and borough in the parish of Whalley and part of the old Norman Blackburn Hundred which has been represented in Parliament since Elizabethan times. It is located about 30 miles north west of Manchester and 20 miles north east of Preston.
Its most distinctive feature is Clitheroe Castle, a Norman edifice dating from the reign of William the Conqueror, or his son William Rufus. Otherwise, Clitheroe was of little importance until it developed in the late 18th and early 19th century as a major centre cotton spinning and textile power loom manufacturing. Its early mills were water powered by the River Ribble and later a steam engine added. The banks of the Ribble were were also a convenient source of natural limestone, and its ten kilns, supplied quicklime and plaster for mortars and building use throughout much of the county.