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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
The building continued to serve as the headquarters of the local borough council for much of the 20th century and remained the local seat of government after the enlarged Pendle Borough Council was formed in 1974. [10] [11] Following its formation in May 2008, [1] the town hall also became the regular meeting place of Nelson Town Council. [12] [13]
The Nelsons drive their cars to the racetracks, where they switch out their street tires for soft-tread racing slicks they bring along. Terre Haute, Lyons, New Hope: They've raced at these local ...
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