Mellor, Lancashire

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Coordinates: 53°46′44″N 2°31′52″W / 53.779°N 2.531°W

Mellor
Mellor Mellor shown within Lancashire
Population	1,490
OS grid reference	SD654309
District	Ribble Valley
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BLACKBURN
Postcode district	BB1, BB2
Dialling code	01254
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Ribble Valley
List of places UK England Lancashire

Mellor is a village situated in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is reasonably large in size for a village, with two churches, one Church of England Parish Church (St Mary's) and one Methodist, as well as a primary school, three public houses and a hotel. In addition to this there is a post office and general store, several shops, a pharmacy and a private hire company. There are also three disused quarries and the remains of an eel farm that was destroyed by fire in the 1990s.

Atop the highest hill on Mellor Moor, overlooking the village, is the site of a Roman signalling station and a now-disused Royal Observer Corps Nuclear Blast and Fallout Monitoring Station. The monitoring post was opened in July 1959, was decommissioned in October 1968 and is situated on a low mound ten yards west of a trig point overlooking BAE Samlesbury Airfield. Many people still believe that this was a nuclear shelter or an air raid shelter for the use of the local population during times of war. A millennium viewpoint pillar has been erected alongside encroaching onto the top of the post.

Mellor has a village hall, situated near the centre of the village. It hosts many activities such as football, tennis, bowls and hockey. The hall is also used for other activities such as line-dancing, disco parties and exercise classes. The hall is available for hire. The hall also functions as the community centre for the village, where residents can go to discuss how to improve the local area.

Close to the village hall is a playing field and a tennis court which proves very popular in the summer. In the centre of the village there is a playground adjacent to a small public library and a doctor's surgery, which share the same building.

The local populace is generally middle class and middle age, although the tranquil rolling hills and tight sense of community have made it a prime retirement location.

Mellor is linked to Mellor Brook, another small village, which features a bakery, post office with general store, an art gallery and the Feildens Arms, a public house. The hub of Mellor Brook is the Community Centre, which was originally a chapel before becoming a primary school, which closed in 1962. In 1966 the building became a Community Centre, having been bought from the church, to be maintained as a Registered Charity until this day.

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v t e Borough of Ribble Valley

Towns	Clitheroe Longridge

Villages & suburbs	Balderstone Barrow Bashall Eaves Billington Bolton-by-Bowland Brockhall Village Chatburn Chipping Clayton-le-Dale Dinckley Downham Dunsop Bridge Gisburn Great Mitton Grindleton Horton Hurst Green Langho Low Moor Mellor Brook Mellor Middop Newsholme Newton-in-Bowland Osbaldeston Paythorne Pendleton Read Ribchester Rimington Sabden Salesbury Sawley Simonstone Slaidburn Tosside Twiston Waddington West Bradford Whalley Whitewell Wilpshire Wiswell Worston York

Parishes	Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley Balderstone Bashall Eaves Billington and Langho Bolton-by-Bowland Bowland Forest High Bowland Forest Low Bowland-with-Leagram Chatburn Chipping Clayton-le-Dale Clitheroe Dinckley Downham Dutton Easington Gisburn Gisburn Forest Great Mitton Grindleton Horton Hothersall Little Mitton Longridge Mearley Mellor Middop Newsholme Newton Osbaldeston Paythorne Pendleton Ramsgreave Read Ribchester Rimington Sabden Salesbury Sawley Simonstone Slaidburn Thornley-with-Wheatley Twiston Waddington West Bradford Whalley Wilpshire Wiswell Worston

Transport	Railway stations: Clitheroe Langho Whalley Disused: Chatburn Gisburn Longridge Newsholme Rimington Simonstone

Churches	Balderstone: St Leonard Bolton-by-Bowland: Sts Peter and Paul Chatburn: Christ Church Chipping: St Bartholomew Clitheroe: St Mary Magdalene Great Mitton: All Hallows Grindleton: St Ambrose Langho: Old St Leonard New St Leonard Ribchester: St Wilfrid Slaidburn: St Andrew Stydd: St Saviour Waddington: St Helen Whalley: St Mary and All Saints

Other buildings & structures	Alston Hall Bremetennacum Browsholme Hall Clitheroe Castle Clitheroe Interchange Listed in Chipping Listed in Dutton King's House Kirk Mill Martholme Viaduct Read Hall and Park Samlesbury Aerodrome Sawley Abbey Station Road Ground Stydd Swan Court The Old Zoo Waddow Hall Whalley Abbey

Education	Bowland High Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Moorland School Oakhill College St Augustine's RC High School Stonyhurst College Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall

Sport	Clitheroe F.C. Longridge circuit Station Road Ground

Topography	Centre of Great Britain Forest of Bowland Forest of Pendle Stocks Reservoir Trough of Bowland Hills: Easington Fell Hawthornthwaite Fell Longridge Fell Parlick Pendle Hill White Hill Wolfhole Crag Waterways: Bashall Brook Dinckley Brook R Dunsop R Hodder R Loud Pendleton Brook R Ribble Sabden Brook Skirden Beck Stock Beck Stydd Brook

History	Battle of Clitheroe

Media	Clitheroe Advertiser and Times

Politics	District elections Ribble Valley constituency 1991 by-election Clitheroe constituency 1979 by-election

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