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 "Transit of Venus, 1639"): The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent William Crabtree.
Relevant evidence: No