The Forest of Pendle is a hilly area to the east of Pendle Hill in eastern Lancashire, roughly defining the watershed between the River Ribble and its...
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It is included in a detached part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The name "Pendle Hill" combines the words for hill from...
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for Pendle Hill (literally "hill hill hill"), a prominent outlier of the Pennines. The name was then also used for the ancient Forest of Pendle around...
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Pendle may refer to: Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England Pendle (UK Parliament constituency) Pendle Hill in Lancashire, England Forest of Pendle...
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Pendle Hill The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th...
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anciently a royal forest with its own separate history. One of the best-known features of the area is Pendle Hill, which lies in Pendle Forest. There are more...
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Malkin Tower (category History of the Borough of Pendle)
from the official account by the clerk of the court, Thomas Potts, who places it somewhere in the Forest of Pendle. Archaeological excavations in the area...
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Sabden (category Forest of Bowland)
75 ha) is occupied by the village. It lies in the Forest of Pendle section of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Sabden is believed...
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Nelson, Lancashire (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
all of modern-day Brierfield. Walverden Water joins Pendle Water next to Nelson & Colne College, with that river forming the boundary of the Forest of Pendle...
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Lancashire Witches Walk (category Transport in the Borough of Pendle)
It starts at Pendle Heritage Centre in Barrowford before passing through the Forest of Pendle, the town of Clitheroe and the Forest of Bowland to finish...
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Burnley (redirect from County Borough of Burnley)
be a suburb of the town, it is actually part of the neighbouring borough of Pendle. To the north west of the town, and home of the Pendle Witches, is...
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Trawden Forest is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 2,765, and contains the village of Trawden (formerly...
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contrast, the others tried at the same assizes, who included the Pendle witches, were accused of maleficium – causing harm by witchcraft. The case against the...
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Wycoller (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
in the civil parish of Trawden Forest in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Colne, near to the junction of the Lancashire, West...
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Reedley Hallows (category Geography of the Borough of Pendle)
the parish of Whalley, as parts of the former royal hunting Forest of Pendle, the area was extra-parochial until 1887. As part of the Honour of Clitheroe...
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Newchurch in Pendle is a village in the civil parish of Goldshaw Booth, Pendle, Lancashire, England, adjacent to Barley, to the south of Pendle Hill. It was...
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Higham, Lancashire (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
Higham is a village in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, south of Pendle Hill. The civil parish is named Higham with West Close Booth. The...
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at their general rendezvous in the Forest of Pendle" which relates to the 17th century Pendle witches. East of Pendle, candles were lit in every window...
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Oswaldtwistle (category Geography of Hyndburn)
Hill TV transmitter and the local relay TV transmitter located in the Forest of Pendle. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Lancashire, Capital Manchester...
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Brierfield, Lancashire (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
parish in the Borough of Pendle, in Lancashire, England. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) north east of Burnley, 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Nelson, and 1 mile (1...
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Baron Clitheroe (category Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
its administration in 1945. They included the Lordship of the Forest of Pendle. The Assheton family, also spelled Ashton, derive from Ashton-under-Lyne...
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Jack Parsons (category California Institute of Technology faculty)
2004, p. 88. Pendle 2005, p. 238. Carter 2004, p. 83. Pendle 2005, p. 87. Pendle 2005, p. 226. Pendle 2005, p. 242. Pendle 2005, p. 296. Pendle 2005, pp. 103–105...
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Colne (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
is the terminus of the East Lancashire railway line. Colne adjoins the Pendle parishes of Foulridge, Laneshaw Bridge, Trawden Forest, Nelson, Barrowford...
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Trawden (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
Trawden is a village in the Trawden Forest parish of Pendle, at the foot of Boulsworth Hill, in Lancashire, England. The village co-operatively owns and...
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comprising: Forest of Trawden Forest of Pendle Forest of Rossendale - Cowpe, Lench, and Musbury where added to the forest after the acquisition of Tottington...
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A royal forest, occasionally known as a kingswood (Latin: silva regis), is an area of land with different definitions in England, Wales, Scotland and...
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Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves (category People from the Borough of Pendle)
it transpired that the Lordship of the Forest of Pendle belongs to the Barons Clitheroe and forms part of the Honour of Clitheroe holdings they have held...
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Roughlee Booth (category Local government in the Borough of Pendle)
located in Pendle, Lancashire. It is approximately 449.43 hectares in size and situated in the Forest of Bowland AONB. It borders on the parishes of Blacko...
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Fence, Lancashire (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
line of the old road. Fence was in the Hundred of Blackburn. Up until late medieval times, it lay in the Forest of Pendle, the hunting preserve of the...
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Barley, Lancashire (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
Barley is a village in the borough of Pendle, in Lancashire, England. It is in the civil parish of Barley-with-Wheatley Booth. The village lies between...
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