Trawden Forest

Civil parish in Lancashire, England

Human settlement in England

Trawden Forest

District

Pendle

Shire county

Lancashire

Region

North West

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53°50′35″N 2°08′13″W / 53.843°N 2.137°W / 53.843; -2.137

Trawden Forest is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 2,765,^[1] and contains the village of Trawden (formerly called Beardshaw) and the hamlets of Cottontree, Winewall and Wycoller. Boulsworth Hill is a well known local landmark situated within the parish. It takes its name from a medieval royal forest or "chase" which was in the same area.

Trawden was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming an urban district from 1894.^[2]

The parish adjoins the Pendle parishes of Nelson, Colne and Laneshaw Bridge, the Burnley parish of Briercliffe and West Yorkshire.

According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 2,765,^[1] an increase from 2,580 in the 2001 census.^[3]

Media gallery

Watersheddles Reservoir
The Brontë Way crossing Brink Ends Moor
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Trawden
Wycoller Beck
The ruins of Wycoller Hall

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Trawden Forest Parish (1170215077)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
^ "Trawden Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Pendle Retrieved 2009-09-18

External links

Media related to Trawden Forest at Wikimedia Commons

Map of modern parish boundary at Lancashire County Council website

Geography of the Borough of Pendle

Towns

Villages

Parishes

Topography

Forest of Bowland AONB Forest of Pendle South Pennines
Footpaths	Brontë Way Lancashire Witches Walk Pendle Way
Hills	Boulsworth Hill Noyna Hill Pendle Hill Weets Hill
Reservoirs	Black Moss Reservoirs Ogden Reservoirs Watersheddles Reservoir¹
Waterways	River Calder Colne Water River Laneshaw Leeds and Liverpool Canal Pendle Water Stock Beck Trawden Brook Walverden Water Wycoller Beck
Notes	1: Watersheddles supplies the Yorkshire region

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