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11 Facts About Bretherton

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Bretherton is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England, situated to the south west of Leyland and east of Tarleton.

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Bretherton remained a rural community and today is largely residential with residents commuting to nearby towns.

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Bretherton derives from either the Old English brothor and tun or Norse brothir and means "farmstead of the brothers".

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Bretherton has been variously recorded as Bretherton in 1242, Brotherton occurs in 1292, Bertherton in 1292 and Thorp was mentioned in 1212.

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Bretherton, was part of the Penwortham fee and assessed as two plough-lands.

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Bretherton was a township in the parish of Croston in the Leyland hundred.

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Bretherton became part of Chorley Rural Sanitary District from 1875 to 1894, and part of Chorley Rural District from 1894 to 1974.

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Bretherton is part of the South Ribble parliamentary constituency, which elected Seema Kennedy as Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election.

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Bretherton Endowed Primary was founded as a free school by a merchant, James Fletcher in 1653.

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Bretherton has a cricket club founded in 1925 which enters teams in Palace Shield Cricket Competition and plays at the South Road Ground opposite the Blue Anchor Inn.

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In 2009 Bretherton was awarded the Lancashire's Best Kept Village Award.

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