The Parish of Mitton in the County of -- Lancashire --

Mitton

The Domesday manor of Mitton encompassed both Great and Little Mitton, straddling lands on both sides of the Ribble. From the late eleventh century, it fell under the Lordship of Bowland, the Lords of Bowland being lords paramount of a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and which covered an area of almost 300 square miles (780 km2) on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The manors within the Liberty were Slaidburn (Newton-in-Bowland, West Bradford, Grindleton), Knowlmere, Waddington, Easington, Bashall Eaves, Mitton, Withgill (Crook), Leagram, Hammerton and Dunnow (Battersby).

The only portion of Mitton (Little Mitton) originally in the County of Lancaster was the joint township of Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley, the remainder of the Parish (Great Mitton) being in the West Riding of Yorkshire and separated from the Lancashire portion by the River Hodder until it was all transferred to Lancashire for administrative purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972