Pendle
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{{Infobox UK District
|name = Borough of Pendle
|image = [[Image:LancashirePendle.png|120px|Pendle]]<br>''Shown within non-metropolitan [[Lancashire]]''
|status = Borough
|region = [[North West England]]
|admincounty = [[Lancashire]]
|area = [[List of English districts by area|Ranked 201st]]<br>[[1 E8 m²|169.36]] [[square kilometre|km²]]
|adminhq = [[Nelson, Lancashire|Nelson]]
|onscode = 30UJ
|population = [[List of English districts by population|Ranked {{English district rank|ONS=30UJ}}]]<br>{{English district population|ONS=30UJ}}<br>{{English district density|ONS=30UJ}} / km²
|ethnicity = '''84.3% White'''<br>82.8% White British<br>0.9% White Other<br>0.6% White Irish<br>'''14.1% S.Asian'''<br>13.1% Pakistani<br>0.4% Indian<br>0.4% Other S.Asian<br>0.2% Bangladeshi<br>'''0.9% Mixed Race'''<br>0.5% Asian & White<br>0.2% Black Caribbean & White<br>0.2% Other Mixed<br>0.1% Black African & White<br>'''0.4% E.Asian and Other'''<br>0.2% Chinese<br>0.1% Other E.Asian<br>0.1% Other<br>'''0.3% Black'''<br>0.2% Black African<br>0.1% Black Caribbean<br>0.0% Other Black
|politics = [[Pendle Borough Council]]<br>http://www.pendle.gov.uk/
|leadership = Leader & Cabinet
|executive = {{English district control|ONS=30UJ}}
|mp = [[Gordon Prentice]]
|year = 2005
}}
{{for|the hill named "Pendle"|Pendle Hill}}
'''Pendle''' is a [[Non-metropolitan district|local government district]] and [[borough]] of [[Lancashire]], [[England]], on the [[North Yorkshire]] and [[West Yorkshire]] borders. It adjoins the Lancashire boroughs of [[Burnley (borough)|Burnley]] and [[Ribble Valley]]. It has a total population of about 90,000 people, and is represented in Parliament by [[Gordon Prentice]] ([[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]).
It was created in [[1974]] as a result of local government reorganisation from the former [[Municipal Borough]]s of [[Nelson, Lancashire|Nelson]] and [[Colne]], the former [[urban district]]s of [[Barnoldswick]], [[Barrowford]], [[Brierfield]], [[Earby]] and [[Trawden]], and from parts of [[Burnley Rural District]] and [[Skipton Rural District]]. It was named after the historical district of [[Pendle Forest]]. The Barnoldswick, Earby and Skipton parts are historically in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. The name Pendle comes from the [[Cumbric_Language|Cumbric]] word 'Pen' meaning hill, a reference to [[Pendle Hill]], a major landmark in Pendle.
The area is closely associated with the [[Pendle witch trials]], and the landscape in the north of the borough is dominated by [[Pendle Hill]].
Places in Pendle include:
*[[Barley, Lancashire|Barley]]
*[[Barnoldswick]]
*[[Barrowford]]
*[[Blacko]]
*[[Bracewell and Brogden|Bracewell]]
*[[Brierfield]]
*[[Carr Hall]]
*[[Colne]]
*[[Cottontree and Winewall, Lancashire|Cottontree]]
*[[Earby]]
*[[Fence, Lancashire|Fence]]
*[[Foulridge]]
*[[Higham, Lancashire|Higham]]
*[[Kelbrook]]
*[[Laneshaw Bridge]]
*[[Nelson, Lancashire|Nelson]]
*[[Newchurch in Pendle]]
*[[Reedley, Lancashire|Reedley]]
*[[Roughlee, Lancashire|Roughlee]]
*[[Salterforth]]
*[[Sough, Lancashire|Sough]]
*[[Trawden]]
*[[West Craven]]
*[[Wheatley Lane, Lancashire|Wheatley Lane]]
*[[Cottontree and Winewall, Lancashire|Winewall]]
*[[Wycoller]]
[[Pendle College]] at Lancaster University takes its name from this area, and many of the places in Pendle lend their name to the college's residential blocks.
== External links ==
'''Local Government'''
* [http://www.pendle.gov.uk Pendle Borough Council]
* [http://mayorofpendle.blogspot.com Mayor of Pendle's Blog]
* [http://www.lancashire.gov.uk Lancashire County Council]
* [http://www.pendlelife.co.uk PendleLife], the locally focussed web portal
* [http://www.gordonprenticemp.com Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle]
* [http://www.pendleconservatives.com/ Pendle Conservatives]
'''Local Media'''
* [http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk Lancashire Evening Telegraph], a daily local newspaper.
* [http://www.pendletoday.co.uk Pendle Today] website of the Nelson Leader and Colne Times weekly newspapers.
* [http://www.northernlifemagazine.co.uk Northern Life Magazine] Successful Pendle-based, Northern focussed print magazine
* [http://www.pendle.net/ Pendle.net], a local web portal
'''Local Societies'''
* [http://www.pendleforestcyclingclub.co.uk/ Pendle Forest Cycling Club]
* [http://www.cpgs.org.uk Craven and Pendle Geological Society]
* [http://www.pendlewriters.com/ Pendle Writers]
* [http://www.phtheatre.co.uk/ Pendle Hippodrome Theatre]
* [http://pma.themuslimcommunity.com/ Pendle Muslim Archive]
* [http://www.pendleforest.com/ Pendle Forest Sports Club]
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