It has a total population of about 100,000 people, and is represented in Parliament by Andrew Stephenson, Conservative.
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See Pendle witches for Alice Nutter (witch), (died 1612), Englishwoman hanged as part subjects of the Pendle witch trials
The other river is Colne Water, which joins Pendle Water behind the site of the now demolished Samuel Holden cotton mill and this river flows down from the moors above the town of Colne, again this river holds good trout.
Other published works include Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper (1986), written in Yorkshire dialect, and Pendle Witches (1996), illustrated with etchings by Paula Rego.
The founding committee was formed by: Thomas Hogg, 24 years old, born in Skelton, York, Yorkshire; his brother James Hogg, 26 years old, born in Skelton, York, Yorkshire; Thomas Jackson, 29 years old, born in Cumberland; Thomas Barlow Smith, 21 years old, born in Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire; and Walter Heald, secretary, 29 years old, born in Pendle, Lancashire.
The league is essentially based on Craven and so includes several teams from the main Craven centres such as Skipton, Settle, Cross Hills and Cononley, but its catchment extends into nearby districts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire with, for example, teams from Bradford, Colne, Ilkley, Keighley and Pendle also taking part.
Pendle’s second book – The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore.
During the campaign the national Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg visited Pendle to support his party.
On 27 April 1661, they used a barometer, of the type invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643, to measure the pressure of air at different altitudes on Pendle Hill in Lancashire.
St. John wrote the original music for the Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams film The Bruce Lacey Experience, and produced the "Pendle, 1612" compilation album with David Chatton-Barker, commemorating the anniversary of the Pendle Witch Trials.
Badger Wells Water (brook) runs from the flanks of Pendle and Churn Clough reservoir above the village to the north east and is culverted down Whalley road, before joining Sabden Brook.
The show was written by Brian (the writer of Dangermouse) and Johnathan Trueman and was based in a fictionalized version of the Northern English village of Sabden, in Pendle, where treacle is (allegedly) a natural resource extracted through mines.