AI automation across Pendle.
We work with businesses in all 52 towns and villages in the district.
Towns in Pendle
Nelson
Population 33,617
Lomeshaye Business Park is the town's main employment site with around 4,000 workers after the cotton industry's decline.
Colne
Population 17,855
Precision engineering, particularly for the aerospace sector, drives the local economy.
Barnoldswick
Population 10,752
Rolls-Royce plc, which designs jet engines in the town, is its largest employer.
Barrowford
Population 6,171
Historically a cotton textile centre; Booths supermarket is a significant modern employer.
Earby
Population 4,538
A former lead-mining settlement whose economy is now based on community services and tourism.
Villages and smaller places we also cover
These are served from the same team on the same terms. They are listed here rather than given a page each, because a page that only restates the district page helps nobody.
Brierfield
The cotton industry remained the main employer here well into the 1960s.
Trawden Forest
Upland parish covering Trawden, Winewall, Cottontree and Wycoller on the Lancashire/Yorkshire watershed.
Reedley Hallows
Construction of a marina on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal began in the parish in January 2008.
Fence
Named after the enclosure erected to keep the King's deer within the Forest of Pendle.
Foulridge
An important stopping point on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal summit pound at the mouth of Foulridge Tunnel.
Old Laund Booth
Parish on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal containing the villages of Fence and Wheatley Lane.
Trawden
The community co-operatively owns the village library, shop, community centre and pub.
Kelbrook and Sough
West Craven parish straddling the A56 corridor between Earby and Barnoldswick.
Laneshaw Bridge
Long dominated by the Emmott family estate; now residential with walking tourism.
Higham-with-West Close Booth
Parish on the southern slopes of Pendle between Padiham and Fence.
Higham
A historic pinfold and the 1837 village hall, built as a National School, stand in the village centre.
Blacko
Spring Field Mill, a cotton weaving mill of about 1850, closed in the 1970s and the site is now housing.
Salterforth
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal cuts through the village, with narrowboat moorings and canalside facilities.
Roughlee Booth
Small Pendle Hill parish on Pendle Water, part of the Pendle witch tourism trail.
Roughlee
Sits at the foot of Pendle Hill and is closely associated with the Pendle witches.
Barley-with-Wheatley Booth
Parish directly under Pendle Hill, the main walking access point for the summit.
Goldshaw Booth
Parish containing Newchurch in Pendle, lying within the Forest of Bowland AONB.
Bracewell and Brogden
Pendle's smallest and most rural parish, crossed by the Roman road from Ribchester to Ilkley.
Alkincoats
Area between Colne and Barrowford, site of Alkincoats Park and the former Alkincoats Hall
Ball Grove
Area on the eastern edge of Colne, site of Ball Grove Park picnic area and former dye works
Barley
Cotton factories were powered by local brooks; Barley Green Mill ran 200 looms until the floods of 1880.
Barnside
Settlement east of Colne, historically a detached part of Foulridge township
Bracewell
A Roman road from Ribchester to Ilkley passes through the parish.
Bradley
District of Nelson and a Pendle borough ward; dense terraced inner Nelson neighbourhood
Brogden
Farming hamlet paired with Bracewell in Pendle's most easterly parish.
Clover Hill
District of Nelson, part of the Brierfield East and Clover Hill ward
Coates
Residential area of Barnoldswick that gives its name to the town's Coates ward.
Cottontree
Hamlet paired with Winewall in Trawden Forest parish on the edge of Colne.
Higherford
Sits on the A682 immediately above Barrowford, with which it is often confused.
Horsfield
District of Colne paired with Waterside in the borough ward name
Kelbrook
Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and still culturally linked to Craven.
Lomeshaye
Western district of Nelson and the borough's main industrial estate, Lomeshaye Industrial Estate
Marsden
Historic township (Great Marsden and Little Marsden) that modern Nelson was built across; survives as the Mars...
Newchurch in Pendle
The village centres on the historic St Mary's Church, a focal point of Pendle witch heritage.
Primet Bridge
District of south west Colne, gives its name to Colne Primet Academy
Reedley
Suburban village in Pendle borough that adjoins Burnley's north-eastern edge.
Sabden Fold
Hamlet in Goldshaw Booth parish, Pendle witch country between Newchurch and Sabden
Sough
Lies east of the main A56 road between Earby and Kelbrook in the West Craven area.
Southfield
District of Nelson named in the Marsden and Southfield ward
Spen Brook
Hamlet in Goldshaw Booth parish below Pendle Hill, near Newchurch in Pendle
Vivary Bridge
District and former ward of Colne on the northern side of the town
Walverden
District of eastern Nelson around Walverden Water and Walverden Reservoir
Waterside
District of Colne at the base of the southern slope next to Colne Water, part of the Waterside and Horsfield w...
Wheatley Lane
Ribbon village in Old Laund Booth parish running along the Pendle Hill shelf above Nelson.
Whitefield
District of Nelson and part of the Whitefield and Walverden ward, a designated conservation area of weavers' t...
Winewall
Until 2001 Winewall had one of England's last Inghamite chapels.
Wycoller
Centred on the ruins of the 16th-century Wycoller Hall and its group of historic bridges.
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