Barnoldswick

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Template:Infobox England place with map Barnoldswick (colloquially known as Barlick) is a town in northern with an approximate population of 12,000, administered as part of the Lancashire district of Pendle. It is just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Nestling on the lower slopes of Weets Hill in the Pennines, astride the natural watershed between the Ribble and Aire valleys, it is the highest town on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in-between Clitheroe in Lancashire and Skipton in Yorkshire, and approximately 30 miles from the cities of Leeds, Manchester and Preston.

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History

Barnoldswick dates back to Viking times. It was listed in the Doomsday Book as Bernulfsuuick, meaning Bernulf's Town (uuic being an archaic spelling of wick, meaning settlement).

A Cistercian monastery was founded there in 1147 by monks from Fountains Abbey. However they left after six years, before construction was complete, driven out by crop failures and locals unhappy at their interference in the affairs of the local church. They went on to build Kirkstall Abbey. They returned after another ten years to build the isolated church of St Mary-le-Gill close to the Barnoldswick to Thornton in Craven road.

For hundreds of years Barnoldswick remained a small village, however the arrival of the canal, and later the (now closed) railway, spurred the development of the existing woolen industry, and helped it to become a major cotton town.

Barnoldswick was historically administered as part of the West Riding of Yorkshire (although Blackburnshire in Lancashire sometimes claimed the area). It was transferred to the jurisdiction of Lancashire by the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974.

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