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Pendle is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. The council is based in Nelson , the borough's largest town. The borough also includes the towns of Barnoldswick , Brierfield , Colne and Earby along with the surrounding villages and rural areas.
From the town centre, the A56 runs southwest to the M65 at Brierfield and north-east to Colne and beyond, while the A682 – Britain's most dangerous road [28] – heads north into the Yorkshire Dales. In November 1969, a multi-storey car park with space for 350 cars was opened in Nelson. [29] The car park was demolished in 2019 to make way for ...
Nelson is a town and civil parish in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It contains 38 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the town of Nelson and surrounding countryside.
Pendle may refer to: Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England Pendle (UK Parliament constituency) Pendle Hill in Lancashire, England Forest of Pendle, hilly landscape surrounding the hill; Pendle College of the University of Lancaster; Pendle Vale College, comprehensive school in Nelson, Lancashire; Pendle witches, accused in the 1612 witch trial
William Roberts and Company (later William Roberts and Sons) of Phoenix Foundry in Nelson, Lancashire, England, produced many of the steam engines that powered cotton weaving and spinning mills of Pendle and neighbouring districts. [1] Industrial historian Mike Rothwell has called Phoenix foundry “Nelson’s most significant engineering site ...
Barrowford (/ ˌ b ær oʊ ˈ f ɔːr d /) is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England, north of Nelson, [1] near the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [2] [3] Barrowford is on the Marsden–Gisburn–Long Preston turnpike. One of the original toll houses can still be seen at the junction with ...
Pendle Heritage Centre is a museum and visitor centre in Barrowford, Lancashire, England, dedicated to the history and heritage of Pendle. [2] The heritage centre occupies Park Hill, a two-storey former farmhouse which has a 1661 date stone but was developed over an extended period between the 16th century and the beginning of the 18th century. [3]
Colne (/ k ɒ l n / [2]) is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. The town is 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Nelson, 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Burnley and 25 mi (40 km) east of Preston. The town should not be confused with the unrelated Colne Valley around the River Colne near Huddersfield in West ...