Arms of Clitheroe Town Council Clitheroe is a small civil parish of the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It lies on the southern edge of the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for tourists in the area. The most notable building in the town is a Norman keep, quarreled as one of the smallest in the country. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 11 KB) Summary Description: A blank map of the United Kingdom, with country outline and coastline; contact the author for help with modifications or add-ons Source: Reference map provided by Demis Mapper 6 Date: 2006-21-06 Author: User...
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Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. ...
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Arms of Clitheroe Town Council. ...
Arms of Clitheroe Town Council. ...
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The Hills in the Forest of Bowland The area known as the Forest of Bowland occupies most of the north east of the county of Lancashire in England. ...
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The town elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons. The Great Reform Act reduced this to one. It was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and remained a municipal borough until the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 when it became a successor parish within the Ribble Valley district. The House of Commons in the 18th century The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act of 1832. ...
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The place has been claimed to be the most (geographically) central town in Britain, by virtue of its proximity to the village of Dunsop Bridge. There has long been debate over the exact location of the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and its constituent countries, due to the complexity and method of the calculation, such as whether to include offshore islands, and the fact that erosion will cause the position to change over time. ...
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Schools
The three main secondary schools in the town are Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Ribblesdale High Technology College and Moorland School. There is a Church of England Primary School, (St James's), a Roman Catholic Primary School, (Sts Michael and John's), and several other primary schools. The Main School site of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. ...
The Castle Clitheroe Castle ( 52°53′17″N, 2°23′31″W) is argued to be the smallest Norman Keep in the whole of England. It stands atop a 35-metre outcrop of limestone and is one of the oldest buildings in Lancashire. It is also the only remaining castle in the county which had a royalist garrison during the English Civil War. Clitheroe Castle in Clitheroe, Lancashire is a motte castle built in a natural rock outcrop, grid reference SD742416. ...
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The castle's most prominent feature is the hole in its side which was made in 1649 as was ordered by the government. It was to be put in "such condition that in might neither be a charge to the Commonwealth to keep it, nor a danger to have it kept against them". Motto: PAX QUÆRITUR BELLO (English: Peace is sought through war) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Language(s) English Government Republic Lord Protector - 1649-1658 Oliver Cromwell Legislature Rump Parliament Barebones Parliament History - Declaration of Commonwealth May 19, 1649 - Declaration of Breda April 4, 1660 Area 130,395...
Industry Clitheroe enjoys one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the UK. This is largely due to the presence of several companies that each employ hundreds. Most significant are Ultraframe, Castle Cement, Tarmac and Johnson Matthey. Castle Cement is a cement production company located in the United Kingdom. ...
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Castle Cement has been criticised for using industrial waste in its kilns, which locals claim produces poisonous dioxins. Castle Cement claims that its filters remove these and that government inspectors have approved the plant. However, locals continue to campaign for the use of industrial waste as fuel to cease. Industrial waste is a waste caused by industrial factories or mills. ...
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Society Clitheronians are generally quite traditional. A Conservative member of parliament has represented the town for many years, with the exception of Michael Carr, elected in 1991 for the Liberal Democrats. The current MP is Nigel Evans. Previous to both these was the high profile David Waddington. However, the borough returned one of the first six ever socialist MPs at the 1906 election, due perhaps to the large number of mill workers living locally at that time. Jimmy Clitheroe, a comedian well known for his bawdy radio shows, was also not from Clitheroe but from nearby Colne. However, a cafe in the town is named after him. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and is the second oldest extant political party in the world. ...
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Nigel Martin Evans (born November 10, 1957) British politician. ...
David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington, PC (born August 2, 1929), is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Jimmy Clitheroe (1921 - 6 September 1973), aka The Clitheroe Kid, was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, but raised in Blacko, near Nelson and his career spanned five decades. ...
Colne Colne is a town in east Lancashire, in the north-west of England, with a population of around 20,000. ...
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Sport Clitheroe F.C. play in the Unibond First Division. They play their home games at the Shawbridge Stadium. Clitheroe F.C. is an English football club playing in the Northern Premier League First Division. ...
Hurst Green are a semi professional football team from Clitheroe, they play in the East Lancashire Division 1, and in 2007 were crowned Champions
An annual cycle race, the Clitheroe Grand Prix takes place in the town.
Clitheroe is also home to the PESL Futsal Cup, an annual futsal tournament, which takes place every August at Edisford. The PESL Futsal Cup is an annual event taking place every August in Clitheroe, in the heart of the Ribble Valley. ...
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Religion There are three Anglican Churches: St James' Church has recently been refurbished and is home to a lively all age congregation; the more traditional St Mary's is prominent on Church Brow atop another Limestone knoll; St Paul's is in the area of town known as Low Moor. The town also has a large Roman Catholic community, along with many places in north Lancashire. The Catholic Saint, Margaret Clitherow, was not from Clitheroe but lived and was martyred in York. There is also a Methodist and URC church in the town as well as the Clitheroe Community Church and Salvation Army citadel. In nearby Sawley there is a quaker meeting house. The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...
Low Moor is a district of the town of Clitheroe, located in Lancashire, England. ...
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Margaret Clitherow or Saint Margaret Clitherow (1556 - 1586) is a saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
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There is also a growing Muslim community in the town. There has been some controversy surrounding this, and previous entries for Clitheroe, for instance, have noted that the growing Muslim community is "unfortunate" for the town. In order to gain permission for a local mosque from the town's residents, the Muslim community's leaders spent years on outreach, forming "an interfaith scout group — the Beaver Scouts — that honored many religious occasions, including the Taoist and Jewish new years. They established the Medina Islamic Education Center as an interfaith group for adults... and organized a series of lectures on global conflict that attracted important academics." [1] There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ...
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