The Forest of Pendle is a hilly area to the east of Pendle Hill in eastern Lancashire, roughly defining the watershed between the River Ribble and its tributary the River Calder. The area is not a forest in the modern sense of being heavily wooded, and has not been so for many centuries. Historically a somewhat larger area than the modern forest was one of the several royal forests of the area, under the control of Clitheroe Castle, or Honour of Clitheroe. Over its history, the forest has gone from being protected and regulated as a medieval royal forest, to being labelled as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The forest is not coterminous to the modern local government district of Pendle, which is larger, and the modern version of the forest has come to contain areas to the north and east of Pendle Hill which are partly in the district of Ribble Valley.
It is included in a detached part of the Forestof Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The name "Pendle Hill" combines the words for hill from...
for Pendle Hill (literally "hill hill hill"), a prominent outlier of the Pennines. The name was then also used for the ancient ForestofPendle around...
Pendle Hill The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th...
anciently a royal forest with its own separate history. One of the best-known features of the area is Pendle Hill, which lies in PendleForest. There are more...
from the official account by the clerk of the court, Thomas Potts, who places it somewhere in the ForestofPendle. Archaeological excavations in the area...
75 ha) is occupied by the village. It lies in the ForestofPendle section of the Forestof Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Sabden is believed...
in the civil parish of Trawden Forest in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Colne, near to the junction of the Lancashire, West...
the parish of Whalley, as parts of the former royal hunting ForestofPendle, the area was extra-parochial until 1887. As part of the Honour of Clitheroe...
It starts at Pendle Heritage Centre in Barrowford before passing through the ForestofPendle, the town of Clitheroe and the Forestof Bowland to finish...
Trawden Forest is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 2,765, and contains the village of Trawden (formerly...
be a suburb of the town, it is actually part of the neighbouring borough ofPendle. To the north west of the town, and home of the Pendle Witches, is...
its administration in 1945. They included the Lordship of the Forest ofPendle. The Assheton family, also spelled Ashton, derive from Ashton-under-Lyne...
Hill TV transmitter and the local relay TV transmitter located in the ForestofPendle. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Lancashire, Capital Manchester...
Trawden is a village in the Trawden Forest parish ofPendle, at the foot of Boulsworth Hill, in Lancashire, England. The village co-operatively owns and...
Newchurch in Pendle is a village in the civil parish of Goldshaw Booth, Pendle, Lancashire, England, adjacent to Barley, to the south ofPendle Hill. It was...
2004, p. 88. Pendle 2005, p. 238. Carter 2004, p. 83. Pendle 2005, p. 87. Pendle 2005, p. 226. Pendle 2005, p. 242. Pendle 2005, p. 296. Pendle 2005, pp. 103–105...
at their general rendezvous in the ForestofPendle" which relates to the 17th century Pendle witches. East ofPendle, candles were lit in every window...
A royal forest, occasionally known as a kingswood (Latin: silva regis), is an area of land with different definitions in England, Wales, Scotland and...
comprising: Forestof Trawden ForestofPendleForestof Rossendale - Cowpe, Lench, and Musbury where added to the forest after the acquisition of Tottington...
contrast, the others tried at the same assizes, who included the Pendle witches, were accused of maleficium – causing harm by witchcraft. The case against the...
village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England, north of Nelson, near the Forestof Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Barrowford...
located in Pendle, Lancashire. It is approximately 449.43 hectares in size and situated in the Forestof Bowland AONB. It borders on the parishes of Blacko...
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