Borough of Pendle
Shown within Lancashire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	North West England
Admin. County:	Lancashire
Area: - Total	Ranked 201st 169.36 km²
Admin. HQ:	Nelson
ONS code:	30UJ
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 247th 90,238 533 / km²
Ethnicity:	84.9% White 14.1% S.Asian
Politics
Pendle Borough Council http://www.pendle.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Liberal Democrats
MP:	Gordon Prentice

Pendle is a district borough of Lancashire, England, on the North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire borders. It adjoins the Lancashire boroughs of Burnley and Ribble Valley. It has a total population of about 90,000 people, and is represented in Parliament by Gordon Prentice (Labour).

It was created in 1972 as a result of local government reorganisation from the former Municipal Boroughs of Nelson and Colne, the former urban districts of Barnoldswick, Barrowford , Brierfield, Earby and Trawden, and from parts of Burnley and Skipton Rural District Councils. It was named after the historical district of Pendle Forest .

The area is closely associated with the Pendle Witches, and the landscape in the south of the borough is dominated by Pendle Hill.

Places in Pendle include:

• Barley , Barnoldswick, Barrowford , Bracewell , Brierfield
• Carr Hall , Colne
• Earby
• Fence , Foulridge
• Higham
• Kelbrook
• Laneshaw Bridge
• Nelson
• Reedley
• Salterforth , Sough
• Trawden
• Wycoller

External links

Local Government

• Pendle Borough Council
• Lancashire County Council

Local Media

• Lancashire Evening Telegraph, a daily local newspaper.
• Pendle Today website of the Nelson Leader and Colne Times weekly newspapers.
• Pendle.net, a local web portal

Local Societies

• Pendle Forest Cycling Club
• Craven and Pendle Geological Society
• Pendle Writers