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Borough of Pendle
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Pendle

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 ()
- Density		Ranked

/ km²
Ethnicity:84.9% White
14.1% S.Asian
Politics
Pendle Borough Council
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Leadership:Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
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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Ceremonial county of Lancashire
Unitary authorities:Blackpool • Blackburn with Darwen
Boroughs/Districts:City of Lancaster • City of Preston • Borough of Burnley • Borough of Chorley • Borough of Fylde • Borough of Hyndburn •Borough of Pendle • Borough of Ribble Valley • Borough of Rossendale • Borough of South Ribble • Borough of Wyre • District of West Lancashire
Cities/Towns:Accrington • Adlington • Ashton-on-Ribble • Bacup • Barnoldswick • Blackburn • Blackpool • Brierfield • Burnley • Carnforth • Central Lancashire • Chatburn • Chorley • Clayton-le-Moors • Cleveleys • Clitheroe • Colne • Darwen • Earby • Fleetwood • Garstang • Great Harwood • Haslingden • Kirkham • Lancaster • Leyland • Longridge • Lytham St Annes • Morecambe • Nelson • Ormskirk • Oswaldtwistle • Padiham • Penwortham • Poulton-le-Fylde • Preston • Ramsbottom • Rawtenstall • Rishton • Salwick • Skelmersdale • Thornton-Cleveleys • Whitworth 
See also: List of civil parishes in Lancashire
Topics:Places • Parliamentary constituencies
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Districts of North West England
Allerdale • Barrow-in-Furness • Blackburn with Darwen • Blackpool • Bolton • Burnley • Bury • Carlisle • Chester • Chorley • Congleton • Copeland • Crewe and Nantwich • Eden • Ellesmere Port and Neston • Fylde • Halton • Hyndburn • Knowsley • Lancaster • Liverpool • Macclesfield • Manchester • Oldham • Pendle • Preston • Ribble Valley • Rochdale • Rossendale • St Helens • Salford • Sefton • South Lakeland • South Ribble • Stockport • Tameside • Trafford • Vale Royal • Warrington • West Lancashire • Wigan • Wirral • Wyre Counties with multiple districts: Cheshire • Cumbria • Greater Manchester • Lancashire • Merseyside
Lancashire

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region North West England
Area
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin.
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region, also known as Government Office Region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England in the United Kingdom.

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North West England is one of the nine official regions of England. It has a population of 6,853,200[1]
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Lancashire

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region North West England
Area
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin.
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Area is the measure of how much exposed area any two dimensional object has. It is expressed in square units, and is calculated by adding together the areas of all the faces of the object.

Area formulas

Note: For 2D figures, the surface area and the area are the same.
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This is a list of districts of England ordered by area. The areas given are calculated from the Output Areas created for Census 2001 and made available on CD by the Office for National Statistics.
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Orders of magnitude for area Conversion of units for area
1 E-30 m = 1 fm 1 E-24 
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Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units. 1 km² is equal to:
  • 1,000,000 m²
  • 100 ha (hectare)
Conversely:
  • 1 m² = 0.

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Nelson

Population 29,000
OS grid reference SD856376
District Pendle
Shire county Lancashire
Region North West
Constituent country England
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The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data.

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population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the
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In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V—how heavy something is compared to its size. A small, heavy object, such as a rock or a lump of lead, is denser than a lighter object of the same size or a larger object of the same weight, such as pieces of
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Rank District Population Type Ceremonial county
1 Birmingham 1,006,500 Metropolitan borough, City (1889) West Midlands
2 Leeds 750,200 Metropolitan borough, City (1893) West Yorkshire
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Pendle Borough Council is a council covering the area of Pendle in east Lancashire, Great Britain.

2006 Local Elections

In 2006, Pendle Borough Council gained an Asian Liberal Democrat councillor, a BNP councillor and two councillors for the nationalist England First
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Affiliation Members
Labour Party
Conservative Party
Liberal Democrats
Democratic Unionist Party
Scottish National Party
Sinn Féin
Plaid Cymru
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Health Concern
RESPECT The Unity Coalition
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Gordon Prentice (born January 28, 1951, Edinburgh) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

He is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Pendle and was first elected at the 1992 General Election.
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Non-metropolitan districts or commonly Shire districts are a type of local government district in England. They are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties (Shire counties).

Some unitary authorities are technically non-metropolitan districts.
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A borough is an administrative division used in various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
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Lancashire

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region North West England
Area
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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    North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county in that region and also partly in North East England.
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    West Yorkshire

    Shown within England
    Geography
    Status Metropolitan county &
    Ceremonial county
    Origin 1974 (Local Government Act 1972)
    Region Yorkshire and the Humber
    Area
    - Total Ranked 29th
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    Burnley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire in North West England, named for its main town, Burnley. It has been governed by a Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition since 2005.
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    Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status within the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Clitheroe. Other places include Whalley, Longridge and Ribchester.
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    Gordon Prentice (born January 28, 1951, Edinburgh) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

    He is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Pendle and was first elected at the 1992 General Election.
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    Labour Party

    Leader Gordon Brown

    Founded February 27, 1900
    Headquarters 39 Victoria Street
    London, SW1H 0HA

    Political Ideology Democratic socialism (Official Position)
    Social Democracy
    Third Way


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    19th century - 20th century - 21st century
    1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
    1971 1972 1973 - 1974 - 1975 1976 1977

    Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV
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    Municipal boroughs were a type of local authority which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974.

    The municipal boroughs were created by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and allowed the creation of an elected town council, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and
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    Nelson

    Population 29,000
    OS grid reference SD856376
    District Pendle
    Shire county Lancashire
    Region North West
    Constituent country England
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