Barrowford
Barrowford | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | NELSON | |
Postcode district | BB9 | |
Dialling code | 01282 | |
Police | Lancashire | |
Fire | Lancashire | |
Ambulance | North West | |
UK Parliament | ||
Barrowford (/ˌbæroʊˈfɔːrd/) is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England, north of Nelson,[1] near the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[2][3]
Barrowford is on the
About a mile on from the locks heading towards Leeds is Foulridge Tunnel known locally as the "Mile Tunnel". The packhorse bridge near Higherford Mill is the oldest in Barrowford, dating to the end of the 16th century. It formerly lay on the old main road to Gisburn, which was superseded by the Turnpike road built in 1804.
The modern Anglican church (St Thomas') was built to replace the original church of 1839, which burnt down in 1964.
The village has two rivers: Pendle Water, which flows through it, and Colne Water, which joins Pendle Water behind the site of the now demolished Samuel Holden cotton mill and flows down from the moors above Colne.
The first residential home for the deaf in Lancashire was established at Barrowford in 1929.[4]
History
Barrowford has been a centre for textile production since at least the 16th century when a fulling mill is recorded as being in the village. Until the late 18th century, the manufacture of woollen cloth was the primary industry, but in 1780 the fulling mill was rebuilt by Abraham Hargreaves as a cotton mill.
The diarist Elizabeth Shackleton documented her life here. She died in 1781 at Pasture House.[5]
The cotton mill was powered by a
As
One of the last examples of a working weaving shed could be seen at the East Lancashire Towel Company, but the firm, moved to premises in Nelson, and ceased production in the United Kingdom altogether. The site of the former mill was redeveloped by Booths supermarket, which opened in November 2014.
Another weaving shed at Higherford Mill has been converted to artists' workshops. By the 1860s, the village was heavily reliant on the cotton mills for employment, and, along with the rest of Lancashire, was badly affected by the Cotton Famine during the American Civil War. The wall alongside the river opposite Barrowford Park was built during this period to provide work for unemployed weavers: the milestone, which projects from the wall, is dated 1866.
Governance
Barrowford was once a
The parish is split between the Barrowford and Blacko and Higherford wards of Pendle Borough Council.[8][9] It is in the Pendle parliamentary constituency, which is coterminous with the borough.
Demography
According to the
The racial composition of the town in 2011 was 95.3% White (93.8% White British), 3.8% Asian, 0.1% Black, 0.6% Mixed and 0.2% Other. The largest religious groups were Christian (70.2%) and Muslim (3.2%). 72.7% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 were classed as economically active and in work.[1]
Year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1939 | 1951 | 1961 | 2001 | 2011 | ||||||||||||
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Population | 4,959 | 5,527 | 5,527 | 5,299 | 4,833 | 4,766 | 4,644 | 6,039 | 6,171 | ||||||||||||
Media
The daily newspaper, Lancashire Telegraph, covers Barrowford in its Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale edition. The Nelson Leader, a weekly publication, also covers Barrowford.
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- ^ "Gateway towns, Barrowford". Forest of Bowland. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Gateway towns, Barrowford". Visit Pendle. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Gateway towns, Barrowford". Forest of Bowland. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- , retrieved 24 January 2023
- ^ "Gateway towns, Barrowford". Forest of Bowland. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Barrowford CP/Tn through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ "Barrowford". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ "Higham with Pendleside". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Parish headcount" (PDF). Lancashire County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
- ^ Table KS01 Usual resident population, Office for National Statistics, archived from the original on 23 July 2004, retrieved 9 August 2014
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Barrowford UD through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 22 March 2021.