Clitheroe Library
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Clitheroe Library
Image: © Rude Health Taken: 10 Nov 2012
Clitheroe Library was built in 1905, with money from the Carnegie Trust. The original gold key, used for the opening is now in the Clitheroe Castle Museum. Previously a library had been run from the front room of a house in Parson Lane since 1838. The library was part of the old Clitheroe Borough until 1974 when it became part of the Ribble Valley District. In 1990 there was a major refurbishment, when the library was extended into the adjacent building which was owned by Ribble Valley Borough Council. It is a Grade II listed building, on the site of a Moot Hall (courthouse) originally constructed about 1600. Convicted local people were locked in the dungeons, hewn out of solid rock, underneath the building. The dungeons still exist next to the library workroom.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.875277
Longitude
-2.389638