Pendle

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Borough of Pendle
Image:LancashirePendle.png Shown within non-metropolitan 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 (2006 est.) - Density	Ranked 258th 90,100 532 / km²
Ethnicity:	84.9% White 14.1% S.Asian
Politics
Pendle Borough Council http://www.pendle.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Liberal Democrat
MP:	Gordon Prentice

Pendle is a local government district and 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 1974 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 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 area is closely associated with the Pendle witch trials, and the landscape in the south of the borough is dominated by Pendle Hill.

Places in Pendle include:

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.

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Local Government

Pendle Borough Council
Mayor of Pendle's Blog
Lancashire County Council
PendleLife, the locally focussed web portal
Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle
http://www.pendlelabour.com Pendle Labour Party

Local Media

Lancashire Evening Telegraph, a daily local newspaper.
Pendle Today website of the Nelson Leader and Colne Times weekly newspapers.
Northern Life Magazine Successful Pendle-based, Northern focussed print magazine
Pendle.net, a local web portal

Local Societies

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