Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pendle like this:

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.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Pendle by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

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Foulridge 0 2
Barrowford 3 2
Colne 1 2
Nelson 0 2
Salterforth 0 2
Roughlee Booth 0 2
Brogden 0 2
Kelbrook 0 2
Marsden 0 2
Wheatley Carr Booth 0 2
Barnoldswick 0 4
Earby 0 2
Middop 0 2
Brierfield 0 2
Old Laund Booth 0 3
Barley 0 2
Newchurch in Pendle 0 2
Trawden 0 2
Wheatley Booth 0 2
Briercliffe 0 2