Pendle
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| Borough of Pendle | |
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 Shown within non-metropolitan Lancashire |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Borough |
| Region: | North West England |
| Admin. County: | Lancashire |
| Area: - Total |
Ranked 201st 169.36 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Nelson |
| ONS code: | 30UJ |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density |
Ranked 256th 89,300 527 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 84.9% White 14.1% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Pendle Borough Council http://www.pendle.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Liberal Democrats |
| MP: | Gordon Prentice |
Pendle is a local government district and borough of Lancashire, England, on the North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire borders. It adjoins the Lancashire boroughs of Burnley and Ribble Valley. It has a total population of about 90,000 people, and is represented in Parliament by Gordon Prentice (Labour).
It was created in 1974 as a result of local government reorganisation from the former Municipal Boroughs of Nelson and Colne, the former urban districts of Barnoldswick, Barrowford, Brierfield, Earby and Trawden, and from parts of Burnley Rural District and Skipton Rural District. It was named after the historical district of Pendle Forest. The Barnoldswick, Earby and Skipton parts are historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The area is closely associated with the Pendle Witches, and the landscape in the south of the borough is dominated by Pendle Hill.
Places in Pendle include:
- Barley, Barnoldswick, Barrowford, Bracewell, Brierfield
- Carr Hall, Colne
- Earby
- Fence, Foulridge
- Higham
- Kelbrook
- Laneshaw Bridge
- Nelson
- Reedley
- Salterforth, Sough
- Trawden
- Wycoller
Pendle College at Lancaster University takes its name from this area, and many of the places in Pendle lend their name to the residence blocks within the college.
[edit] External links
Local Government
- Pendle Borough Council
- Lancashire County Council
- PendleLife, the locally focussed web portal
Local Media
- Lancashire Evening Telegraph, a daily local newspaper.
- Pendle Today website of the Nelson Leader and Colne Times weekly newspapers.
- Pendle.net, a local web portal
Local Societies
- Pendle Forest Cycling Club
- Craven and Pendle Geological Society
- Pendle Writers
- Pendle Hippodrome Theatre
- Pendle Muslim Archive
- Nelson's Free Your Mind
| Ceremonial county of Lancashire |
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Unitary authorities: Blackpool | Blackburn with Darwen Non-metropolitan districts: West Lancashire | Chorley | South Ribble | Fylde | Preston | Wyre | Lancaster | Ribble Valley | Pendle | Burnley | Rossendale | Hyndburn Topics: Places | Parishes | Parliamentary constituencies |
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Allerdale | Barrow-in-Furness | Blackburn with Darwen | Blackpool | Bolton | Burnley | Bury | Carlisle | Chester | Chorley | Congleton | Copeland | Crewe and Nantwich | Eden | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Fylde | Halton | Hyndburn | Knowsley | Lancaster | Liverpool | Macclesfield | Manchester | Oldham | Pendle | Preston | Ribble Valley | Rochdale | Rossendale | St Helens | Salford | Sefton | South Lakeland | South Ribble | Stockport | Tameside | Trafford | Vale Royal | Warrington | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral | Wyre |
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Counties with multiple districts: Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside |
