West Bradford, Lancashire

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West Bradford
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Eaves Hall
West Bradford is located in Lancashire
West Bradford
West Bradford
 West Bradford shown within Lancashire
Population 788 (2011)
OS grid reference SD745445
Civil parish West Bradford
District Ribble Valley
Shire county Lancashire
Region North West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CLITHEROE
Postcode district BB7
Dialling code 01200
Police Lancashire
Fire Lancashire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament Ribble Valley
List of places
UK
England
Lancashire

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West Bradford is a village and civil parish Lancashire, England, 27 miles (43 km) west of the larger city of Bradford, West Yorkshire and 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Clitheroe. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 788.[1] It covers some 2000 acres of the Forest of Bowland. In Domesday, it is recorded as Bradeford and in the thirteenth century, Braford in Bouland. It was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. "West Bradford" was introduced in the nineteenth century at the time of the introduction of postal services to help distinguish the village from its larger eastern neighbour of the same name.[2]

Along with Waddington, Grindleton and Sawley the parish forms the Waddington and West Bradford ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. [3][4]

History

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See also: Lordship of Bowland

Since the fourteenth century, West Bradford has formed part of the Liberty of Slaidburn. In turn, Slaidburn was part of the ancient Lordship of Bowland which comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire.[5] The manors within the Liberty were Slaidburn (Newton-in-Bowland, West Bradford, Grindleton), Knowlmere, Waddington, Easington, Bashall Eaves, Mitton, Withgill (Crook), Leagram (Bowland-with-Leagram), Hammerton and Dunnow (Battersby).[6]

Mahatma Gandhi stayed here (Heys Farm Guest House) in 1931 when he came to visit the cotton mills of Lancashire.[7]

Media gallery

  • 3 Millstones Inn, West Bradford - geograph.org.uk - 759012.jpg

    3 Millstones Inn

  • St Catherine's Church, West Bradford - geograph.org.uk - 758958.jpg

    St Catherine's Church

  • Waddington and West Bradford Primary School - geograph.org.uk - 758948.jpg

    Waddington & West Bradford Primary School

  • West Bradford Methodist Church - geograph.org.uk - 759021.jpg

    West Bradford Methodist Church

  • West Bradford Brook - geograph.org.uk - 759017.jpg

    West Bradford Brook

  • Horrocksford Bridge, West Bradford - geograph.org.uk - 241553.jpg

    Horrocksford Bridge over the Ribble

See also

References

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External links

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 58. ISBN 0198691033.
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  6. ↑ Forest of Bowland official website
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