Fence, Lancashire

Old Laund Booth is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 1,459, and contains the villages of Fence and Wheatley Lane. Old Laund Booth was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Burnley Rural District from 1894 (until 1974). Until 1898 when the parish was enlarged, part of Goldshaw Booth and a detached area Higham with West Close Booth, divided the township into two parts with Fence in the eastern and Wheatley Lane and Old Laund hall in the western. In 1935 the civil parish of Wheatley Carr Booth was abolished and the area also joined this parish.The parish adjoins the Pendle parishes of Roughlee Booth, Barrowford, Nelson, Brierfield, Reedley Hallows, Higham-with-West Close Booth and Goldshaw Booth. Higher areas of the parish, north-east of the villages are part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 1,459, a decrease from 1,586 in the 2001 census.

Wheatley Lane is a village in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It is close to Nelson, Barrowford and Burnley. It lies to the north of the A6068 road, known locally as the Padiham bypass, or "The New Road". Wheatley Lane is an extended village consisting of a ribbon development along 'Wheatley Lane Road' and abuts the sister village of Fence. The present village has now effectively absorbed the original hamlets of Wheatley Lane and Higher & Lower Harpers. Historically, it lies in Old Laund Booth, in the Hundred of Blackburn. Up until Late Mediaeval times it lay in the Forest of Pendle, the hunting preserve of the King. The older properties on the village consist largely of small stone-built cottages, with some later Victorian terraces and some 1950s council properties. Since the 1960s the remaining open fields on either side of the road have been developed for housing. There is unbroken countryside with walking country to the North to Pendle Hill and surrounding areas. There is a Methodist Chapel and attached primary school in the village, and to the east, on the edge of the village, one of the few remaining Inghamite Chapels, which has an extensive graveyard. It is the burial place of Thomas Whitham who won the Victoria Cross in 1917. Local tradition has it that the Harpers Inn, a local hostelry, was also originally built as a Methodist Chapel, but when the money ran out, it was sold and completed as a pub. The original name was the 'Who'd have thought it'. Sports are catered for by Pendle Forest Sports Club. Wheatley Lane has links with the Pendle Witches. In 1633, Edmund Robinson of Wheatley Lane reported that he had been taken by a witch to a barn at Hoarstones where he had seen 40 witches engaged in various devilish activities. He subsequently identified 19 witches and they were sent to trial in 1634, including Jenet Davies, a witness at the 1612 trial, and the daughter-in-law of Alice Nutter (one of the previous Pendle Witches). However, the judge deferred sentence and sent seven of them to London for further examination; only three survived the ordeal. After an enquiry all 19 were acquitted and Robinson later admitted that the story was a fabrication.

Mee-mawing was a form of speech with exaggerated movements to allow lip reading employed by workers in weaving sheds in Lancashire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The noise in a weaving shed rendered hearing impossible so workers communicated by mee-mawing which was a cross between mime and lip reading. To have a private conversation when there were other weavers present, the speaker would cup their hand over their mouth to obscure vision. This was very necessary as a mee-mawer would be able to communicate over distances of tens of yards. It was said that each mill had its own dialect. The British comedian Hylda Baker used mee-mawing as part of her stage and radio act in the 1950s.

St Mary's Church is in the village of Newchurch in Pendle, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Blackburn and the deanery of Pendle. Its benefice is combined with that of St Thomas', Barrowford.

Newchurch in Pendle is a village in the civil parish of Goldshaw Booth, Pendle, Lancashire, England, adjacent to Barley, to the south of Pendle Hill. It was formerly part of Roughlee Booth until it's transferral in 1935.

Goldshaw Booth is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 248, and contains the village of Newchurch in Pendle and the hamlets of Spen Brook (53.846°N 2.267°W / 53.846; -2.267 (Spen Brook)) and Sabden Fold (53.841°N 2.290°W / 53.841; -2.290 (Sabden Fold)). Pendle Hill lies to the north. The parish adjoins the Pendle parishes of Barley-with-Wheatley Booth, Roughlee Booth, Old Laund Booth and Higham-with-West Close Booth and the Ribble Valley parish of Sabden. It is part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 248, a decrease from 265 in the 2001 census.Goldshaw Booth was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Burnley Rural District from 1894. The township extended to cover parts of the adjoining villages of Fence and Wheatley Lane, but this part transferred to Old Laund Booth in 1898. Parts of the parish also transferred to Sabden on its creation in 1904, and Newchurch in Pendle also used to straddle the boundary with Roughlee Booth but was brought entirely within the parish in 1935.Along with Higham-with-West Close Booth, Barley-with-Wheatley Booth and Roughlee Booth, the parish forms the Higham with Pendleside ward of Pendle Borough Council.

Brierfield railway station serves the town of Brierfield, Lancashire, England and is on the East Lancashire Line 2+1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) east of Burnley Central railway station towards Colne (the terminus). The station is managed by Northern, who also provide all passenger trains serving it. The station is unstaffed and only has basic facilities (no waiting room, just a shelter and a modern ticket vending machine), though there are passenger information screens, timetable posters and a long-line PA system in place to provide train running information. The platform has step-free access from the adjoining street.

The Burnley Built-up area is an urban area or conurbation which extends from the town of Burnley to Padiham, Brierfield, Nelson, Barrowford and Colne in Lancashire, England. The area takes in parts of the boroughs of Burnley and Pendle, and also small parts of Hyndburn and Ribble Valley. It also includes a number of villages such as Blacko, Trawden and Worsthorne. In 2011 the area was recorded at having a population of 149,422. It is the third most populous urban area in Lancashire after Preston and Blackpool, with slightly more people than the urban areas of Cambridge or York. These settlements along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal expanded in the nineteenth century. The area's economy was dominated by cotton manufacturing and in the four decades after World War I the number of cotton workers reduced by over 50%. The population of approximately 187,000 in 1931, declining to 156,000 in 1961.In the 2001 census, the Burnley/Nelson urban area had a population of 149,796 and an area of 3,027 ha (11.69 sq mi). The were six sub-divisions, with 73,021 in Burnley, 28,998 in Nelson, 20,118 in Colne, 11,091 in Padiham, 10,047 in Brierfield and 5,261 in Barrowford.The built-up area defined in the 2011 census had an area of 3,572 ha (13.79 sq mi), and population of 149,422. This definition includes, at the western extremity, the predominantly industrial parts of Altham in the Borough of Hyndburn and Simonstone in the Ribble Valley. The gender makeup of the population was 73,364 male and 76,058 female. 65.1% of residents aged 16 to 74 were classed as economically active, with 2.1% long-term unemployed. The largest employment sectors were manufacturing 19.1%, wholesale and retail trade including motor vehicle repairs 17.5%, and health and social work 14.6%. The ethnic makeup of the whole urban area was 81% white and 17% Asian. Other ethnic minorities were around 2%.The Centre for Cities define a theoretical city of Burnley based on a primary urban area equivalent to the total area of the boroughs of Burnley and Pendle. In 2019 this encompassed an estimated population of 181,030 in an area of 280 km2 (110 sq mi), with an annual gross domestic product (GDP) of £5.1 billion. At 21.34%, more people are employed in the manufacturing industry than any other PUA in the UK, and it also ranks highly for the value of goods exports per job. The figure of 17.6% of the working age population with no formal qualifications is also the highest and the average weekly earnings of £402.49 is the lowest. As a result, despite having the lowest mean house price of £113,036.96, it also has the lowest housing affordability ratio.

Brierfield () is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, in Lancashire, England. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north east of Burnley, 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Nelson, and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north east of Reedley. The parish had a population of 8,193, at the census of 2011.The parish adjoins the Pendle parishes of Reedley Hallows, Old Laund Booth and Nelson, the Burnley parish of Briercliffe, and the unparished area of the town of Burnley.

Jamia Mosque Sultania is a mosque (masjid) in Brierfield, Lancashire, England, UK. It is also the largest mosque in the ceremonial county of Lancashire.

Brierfield Town Hall is a municipal building in Colne Road, Brierfield, Lancashire, England. The structure, which is the headquarters of Brierfield Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Reedley Hallows Halt railway station was a station on the East Lancashire line between Brierfield and Burnley in Lancashire, England. It was situated on a bridge crossing Barden Lane near Burnley and was closed in 1956 to passengers. The line remains open between Colne and Burnley, however nothing remains of the halt.