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Ribble

British  
/ ˈrɪbəl /

noun

  1. a river in NW England, flowing south and west through Lancashire to the Irish Sea. Length: 121 km (75 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the future, he says, it would be a "great honour" to be a parliamentary candidate for the party where he lives in the Ribble Valley, if he was selected.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

The charity, based at the South Ribble Family Wellbeing Centre on Wilkinson Street, was established in 2019.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025

Aaron Wilkins-Odudu, 18, said "social and economic justice" were his main motives after being elected to Ribble Valley council in Lancashire this May.

From BBC ● May 21, 2023

The order “is pretty unique,” Tom Pridmore, Ribble Valley’s tourism officer, said in an interview with The Washington Post.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023

The town of Preston seated on the river Ribble, was a place from which an enemy might, in the year 1715, have been easily repulsed.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Mrs. Thomson

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