Trawden Forest

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Trawden Forest
Trawden countryside
Trawden Forest Trawden Forest shown within Lancashire
Population	2,765 (2011)
OS grid reference	SD9139
Civil parish	Trawden Forest
District	Pendle
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BURNLEY
Postcode district	BB12
Dialling code	01282
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Pendle
List of places UK England Lancashire

Coordinates: 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]

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

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Citations

1 2 "Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
↑ "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

Waterways	River Calder Colne Water River Laneshaw Leeds and Liverpool Canal Pendle Water Stock Beck Wycoller Beck

Ceremonial county of Lancashire

North West England Portal

Unitary authorities	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool

Boroughs or districts	City of Lancaster City of Preston Burnley Chorley Fylde Hyndburn Pendle Ribble Valley Rossendale South Ribble West Lancashire Wyre

Major settlements	Accrington Adlington Bacup Barnoldswick Blackburn Blackpool Brierfield Burnley Carnforth Chorley Cleveleys Clitheroe Colne Darwen Earby Fleetwood Fulwood Garstang Great Harwood Haslingden Kirkham Lancaster Leyland Longridge Lytham St Annes Morecambe Nelson Ormskirk Padiham Penwortham Poulton-le-Fylde Preesall Preston Rawtenstall Rishton Skelmersdale Waterfoot Wesham Whitworth See also: List of civil parishes in Lancashire

Rivers	Calder Darwen Douglas Hodder Irwell Lune Ribble Wyre

Canals	Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool

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Trawden Forest

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