Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENDLE

PENDLE, a sub-district in Burnley district, Lancashire; averagely 3¼ miles E of Clitheroe. It comprises five townships of Whalley parish. Acres, 5, 280. Pop., 1, 784. Houses, 381. Pendle Hill here adjoins the boundary with Yorkshire; is a limestone ridge, 1,803feet high; was once forest, but is now partly moor and partly cultivated land; is crowned with three cairns, and with Malkin tower; and commands a view to York and to the Isle of Man.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Burnley RegD/PLU       Lancashire AncC
Place: Pendle

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