In more recent years David Waddington the past home secretary, lived at Whins House (with an armed police guard).
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Sabden became a civil parish in 1904, when it was formed from the township of Heyhouses, parts of the 7 parishes of Goldshaw Booth, Higham with West Close Booth, Northtown and Read, all in the Burnley Rural District, and parts transferred from Pendleton and Wiswell in the Clitheroe Rural District.
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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.
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There is a deli called Sandwitches, located on Whalley Road in the middle of the village as well as a hair salon.
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.
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