Brennand Farm

Coordinates: 54°00′13″N 2°32′52″W / 54.003644°N 2.547859°W / 54.003644; -2.547859

Brennand Farm, Bowland

Brennand Farm is often claimed to be the true centre of Great Britain. This is about seven kilometres north-west of Dunsop Bridge - which has the nearest BT phone box to the 'true centre'. A plaque reads “You are calling from the BT payphone that marks the centre of Great Britain”.^[1]

The location was calculated by Ordnance Survey as the centroid of the two-dimensional shape of Great Britain, including all its islands. Haltwhistle claims to be the centre by a different method.

References

↑ "Stuck in the middle with ewe". BBC News Online. 20 October 2002. Retrieved 20 March 2012.

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 Downham Hall Gisburne Park Hacking Hall Huntroyde Hall King's House Kirk Mill Listed in Chipping Listed in Dutton 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 Longridge High School Moorland School Oakhill College Ribblesdale High School St Augustine's RC High School St Cecilia'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 Fair Snape 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

Brennand Farm

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