RIBCHESTER, (Lancashire) on the Ribble, N. E. of Preston, appears to have been once a very considerable T. and station of the Danes and Saxons, as well as of the Romans, from their many statues, urns, coins, pillars, pedestals, chapiters, altars, marbles, anchors, rings, &c. often dug up here; and from 2 military ways leading to it, viz. a high causey from York, and another road to it from the N. thro' Bowland-Forest, which is plainly discernible for several miles.