Map Showing ELOC Recording Area
Recording Area
The recording area consists of the whole of the Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle and Ribble Valley Districts and Blackburn with Darwen except for the southern portion that lies in the Irwell catchment. Perhaps the simplest guide to the club's recording area is that its perimeter follows watersheds except where it cuts across the River Ribble. The area thus includes the catchments of the Ribble and its tributaries from Alston and Balderstone in the SW up to the North Yorkshire boundary between Paythorne and Hellifield in the N, plus the Darwen catchment above Samlesbury Bottoms.
In order to provide a comprehensive service for local and visiting birders, (following the closure of Bill Aspin's East Lancashire Birding Website), records are also welcome from anywhere in 'Greater' East Lancashire, i.e. the recording area plus the remainder of Blackburn with Darwen, those parts of the Chorley District that lie east of the M61, those parts of the Preston and South Ribble Districts that lie east of the M6 and Rossendale. In other words, all parts of Lancashire east of the Bowland watershed and then from south of the River Brock, east of the M6 and M61. Any records received from these additional areas are passed to the appropriate recorders.
Most of the recording area can be found on Ordnance Survey Landranger Map
103 (Blackburn and Burnley). Other maps needed are:-
Sheet 98 (Wensleydale and Upper Wharfedale) - northern edge of the Ribble Valley District.
Sheet 102 (Preston and Blackpool) - western portion of the Ribble Valley District
and eastern portions of the Preston and South Ribble Districts.
Sheet 109 (Manchester) - southern portions of Blackburn with Darwen and Rossendale
Districts and eastern portion of the Chorley District.
Click here for a list of 1 km squares within the recording area and for a list of sites within each 10km square that are listed in the club's gazetteer
Map Showing ELOC Recording Area