Trawden Forest is a

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in the Pendle district of

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, England. It has a population of 2,765, and contains the village of

Trawden Trawden is a village in the Trawden Forest parish of Pendle, at the foot of Boulsworth Hill, in Lancashire, England. The village co-operatively owns and runs its library, shop, community centre and pub. Samantha Bailey, a local resident, has c ...

(formerly called Beardshaw) and the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

Cottontree Cottontree and Winewall are two hamlets situated in the civil parish of Trawden Forest in Borough of Pendle, Pendle, Lancashire. They are adjacent to one other and located between the towns of Colne and Trawden. Cottontree is generally situated ...

, Winewall and Wycoller.

Boulsworth Hill Boulsworth Hill is a large expanse of moorland, the highest point of the South Pennines of south-eastern Lancashire, England, separating the Borough of Pendle from Calderdale. Its summit, Lad Law, is 1,696 ft (517 m) above sea level, ...

is a well known local landmark situated within the parish. It takes its name from a medieval

royal forest A royal forest, occasionally known as a kingswood (), is an area of land with different definitions in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The term ''forest'' in the ordinary modern understanding refers to an area of wooded land; however, the ...

or "chase" which was in the same area. Trawden 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 an

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from 1894. The parish adjoins the Pendle parishes of

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Colne Colne () is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. The town is northeast of Nelson, Lancashire, Nelson, northeast of Burnley and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. The ...

and

Laneshaw Bridge Laneshawbridge (otherwise Laneshaw Bridge) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in England. The population of the civil parish at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 918. It is to the east of Colne in Lancashire an ...

, the

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...

parish of

Briercliffe Briercliffe (historically Briercliffe-with-Extwistle) is a civil parish in the borough of Burnley, in Lancashire, England. It is situated north of Burnley. The parish contains suburbs of Burnley (including Harle Syke and Haggate), and the ...

and

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. According to the

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, the parish has a population of 2,765, an increase from 2,580 in the 2001 census.Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Pendle''
Retrieved 2009-09-18

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Image:Watersheddles reservoir - geograph.org.uk - 1253809.jpg,

Watersheddles Reservoir Watersheddles Reservoir is an upland artificial lake in Lancashire, England. The reservoir was opened in 1877 by the Keighley Corporation Water Works, and is now owned by Yorkshire Water. It supplies water to the Worth Valley and Keighley area a ...

Image:Bridleway crossing Brink Ends Moor, Forest of Trawden - geograph.org.uk - 1256576.jpg, The Brontë Way crossing Brink Ends Moor Image:Entrance to the Church of St Mary the Virgin - geograph.org.uk - 475058.jpg, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Trawden Image:Wycoller Beck - geograph.org.uk - 1171947.jpg, Wycoller Beck Image:Wycoller Hall - geograph.org.uk - 640638.jpg, The ruins of Wycoller Hall

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Map of modern parish boundary at Lancashire County Council website
Civil parishes in Lancashire Geography of the Borough of Pendle {{Lancashire-geo-stub

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