Worston
Worston | |
The Calf's Head public house, Worston |
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Worston |
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Population | 76 (2001) |
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OS grid reference | SD768427 |
Civil parish | Worston |
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 |
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Coordinates: 53°52′48″N 2°21′11″W / 53.880°N 2.353°W
Worston is a small linear village and civil parish in Lancashire, England. The village is north-west of Pendle Hill, east of Clitheroe, and is in the Ribble Valley district. As it is only a small village, with a population of 76 at the 2001 census,[1] it has no parish council, but instead has a parish meeting. The parish meeting is shared with Mearley, a small parish south of Worston with no villages or hamlets and a population of 25, the second smallest in Lancashire. From the 2011 Census population information for both Mearley and Worston is included within the civil parish of Pendleton.
The village has a public house "The Calf's Head". The single road that passes through the village continues as a single track road to Downham. Worston is bypassed to the west by the A59 road, which passes through the edge of the parish. Slightly further north is the route of a Roman road, which forms part of the parish boundary.
Worston was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Clitheroe Rural District from 1894 till 1974.[2]
Mearley was also once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Clitheroe Rural District from 1894 till 1974.[3]
Along with Wiswell and Barrow (since 2015), both Mearley and Worston form the Wiswell and Pendleton ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. [4][5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Parish headcount" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-04-13.
- ↑ "Worston Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ "Mearley Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ "Wiswell and Pendleton". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ↑ "Wiswell and Pendleton". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
External links
Media related to Worston at Wikimedia Commons
- Worston and Mearley Parish Meeting
- Worston Conservation Area Appraisal
- Clitheroe Reef Knoll SSSI
- Worston search results at Historic England's Pastscape site
- pp372-73 of The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Vol 6