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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 ...
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.
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]
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
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.
Wheatley Lane is a village in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It is close to Nelson, Barrowford and Burnley. It lies to the north of the A6068 road, known locally as the Padiham bypass, or "The New Road". Wheatley Lane is an extended village consisting of a ribbon development along 'Wheatley Lane Road' [1] and abuts the sister village of Fence ...
Blacko / ˈ b l æ k oʊ / is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. Before local government reorganisation in 1974 the village lay on the border with the West Riding of Yorkshire. The parish has a population of 672. [2] The village is on the old turnpike road from Nelson to Gisburn .
Pendle Hill in winter 2010 Pendle from the west. (Longridge Fell is to the right.) Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham. Its summit is 557 metres (1,827 ft) above mean sea level. It gives its name to the Borough of Pendle.