Sawley, Lancashire

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Coordinates: 53°54′50″N 2°20′28″W / 53.914°N 2.341°W

Sawley
Sawley
Sawley Sawley shown within Lancashire
Population	305 (2001 Census)^[1]
OS grid reference	SD776465
Civil parish	Sawley
District	Ribble Valley
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CLITHEROE
Postcode district	BB7
Dialling code	01200
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Ribble Valley
List of places UK England Lancashire

Sawley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is situated north-east of Clitheroe, on the River Ribble. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Sawley shares a parish council with two other parishes, Bolton-by-Bowland and Gisburn Forest.^[2]

Sawley Abbey, a ruined abbey of Cistercian monks, is in the village. The abbey was founded in 1147 and dissolved in 1536.^[3] Historically, Sawley fell under the Earl of Northumberland's Percy fee rather than being part of the powerful neighbouring Lordship of Bowland.^[4]

References

↑ "Parish headcount". Lancashire Parish Portal. Lancashire County Council accessdate=2008-09-20.
↑ "Bolton-by-Bowland, Gisburn Forest and Sawley Parish Council". Lancashire Parish Portal. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
↑ "Detailed Record: Sawley Abbey". Images of England. English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
↑ The Lordship of Bowland http://www.forestofbowland.com/node/1864

External links

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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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