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 "Much Hoole"): The parish of Much Hoole had a population of 1,851 at the time of the 2001 census, increasing to 1,997 at the 2011 Census.
Relevant evidence: No