Roughlee Booth is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

located in Pendle,

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. It is approximately 449.43 hectares in size and situated in the

Forest of Bowland The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however ro ...

AONB An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; , AHNE) is one of 46 areas of countryside in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value. Since 2023, the areas in England an ...

. It borders on the parishes of

Blacko Blacko is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. Before local government reorganisation in 1974 the village lay on the border with the West Riding of Yorkshire. The parish has a population of 672. The vil ...

Barrowford Barrowford () is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England, north of Nelson, near the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Barrowford is on the Marsden–Gisburn–Long Preston turnpike. One of ...

Old Laund Booth Old Laund Booth is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 1,459, and contains the villages of Fence, Lancashire, Fence and Wheatley Lane. Old Laund Boo ...

Goldshaw Booth 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 () and Sabden Fold (). Pendle Hill lies to the north. Th ...

and

Barley-with-Wheatley Booth Barley-with-Wheatley Booth is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 298, and contains the village of Barley and the hamlet of White Hough or Whitehough (). To the west of Barley is Pendle Hill; ...

. It is part of the

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(AONB). It contains the village of Roughlee and hamlets of Crow Trees and Thornley Holme. According to the

2011 United Kingdom census A Census in the United Kingdom, census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Inter ...

, the parish has a population of 318, a decrease from 328 in the 2001 census.

Governance

Along with Higham-with-West Close Booth, Goldshaw Booth and Barley-with-Wheatley Booth, the parish forms the Higham with Pendleside ward of

Pendle Borough Council Pendle may refer to: * Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England ** Pendle (UK Parliament constituency) Pendle was a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Lancashire represented in the House of Commons of the Un ...

. Roughlee Booth was once a

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the

Burnley Rural District Burnley was a Rural district of Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was named after but did not include the large town of Burnley, which was a county borough. The district and its council was created in 1894 under the Local Government A ...

from 1894 until 1974. The village of

Newchurch in Pendle 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 its transferral in 1935. History Famous for ...

used to straddle the boundary with

, but that part of the parish was transferred in 1935.

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Image:The Bay Horse, Roughlee - geograph.org.uk - 622713.jpg, The ''Bay Horse'' public house in Roughlee village Image:Stepping stones - panoramio (4).jpg, Stepping stones over

Pendle Water Pendle Water is a minor river in Lancashire, England. Rising on Pendle Hill, Pendle Water cuts a deep valley between Barley Moor and Spence Hill, where it feeds into the reservoirs of Upper and Lower Ogden. Upon exiting the lower reservoir, ...

near Roughlee Old Hall Image:Noggarth Cottage. - geograph.org.uk - 4068044.jpg, Noggarth Tea Gardens Image:Thornley Holme (geograph 4020020).jpg, Thornley Holme, on the road to

Barley Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ...

Image:Nelson ILP Clarion Tearooms - geograph.org.uk - 3089083.jpg, Clarion House, home of the Nelson

Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse work ...

Land Society Image:Pendleway Pointing to Pendlehill - geograph.org.uk - 1825797.jpg, The Pendle Way passes through the parish Image:Pendle Way beside Blacko Water (geograph 3174280).jpg, Blacko Water in the east of the parish

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About Clarion House

British History Online – Roughlee Booth
{{Borough of Pendle geography Local government in the Borough of Pendle Forest of Bowland Civil parishes in Lancashire

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