Question: The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639, they made their observations independently on 4 December that year, later in the village of Much Hoole,  a village and civil parish in the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, in which country?
Sentence (from "Hesketh Bank"): It lies to the north-east of the town of Southport on the Irish Sea estuary of the River Ribble.
Relevant evidence: No