Horton, Lancashire

Village in Lancashire, England

Human settlement in England

Horton

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Horton

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Horton

Location within Lancashire

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Population| 76 (2001)[1]
Civil parish|

* Horton

District|

* Ribble Valley

Shire county|

* Lancashire

Region|

* North West

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Skipton
Postcode district| BD23
Dialling code| 01200
Police| Lancashire
Fire| Lancashire
Ambulance| North West
UK Parliament|

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England
Lancashire

53°56′54″N 2°13′15″W﻿ / ﻿53.9484°N 2.2209°W﻿ / 53.9484; -2.2209

Horton, historically known as Horton-in-Craven, is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of the English county of Lancashire (historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire). Population details are now included in the civil parish of Newsholme. It is near the town of Barnoldswick. Horton has a place of worship, anciently called a chapelry or chapel of ease. For transport, there is the A59 nearby.

The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Gisburn, Paythorne and Newsholme, the Pendle parish of Bracewell and Brogden and the parishes of Hellifield and Martons Both in the county of North Yorkshire. According to the census of 2001, the parish had a population of 76, however the United Kingdom Census 2011 grouped the parish with Newsholme and Paythorne (2001 pop. 50 and 95), giving a total of 253.[1][2][3]

The name Horton is a common one in England. It derives from Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'. This example is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086.[4] In the west of the parish in the Little Painley area, on high ground near the River Ribble, is the site of a Bronze Age Bowl barrow.[5]

Horton was once a township in the ancient parish of Gisburn, in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974.[6] It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of Ribble Valley.

Along with Rimington, Gisburn, Middop, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne and Newsholme, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.[3][7]

The Pennine Bridleway National Trail and Ribble Way pass through the parish.[8][9]

## Media gallery

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* Horton House.

* Higher Paradise Congregational Chapel.

* Hoober Farmhouse.

* The A682 passes through the west of the parish, here joined by the Pennine Bridleway.

* Horton Pasture Farm.

* Horton Beck, a tributary of Stock Beck.

## See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horton, Lancashire.

* Lancashire portal

* Listed buildings in Horton, Lancashire

## References

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1. ^ a b "Parish headcount" (PDF). Lancashire County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
2. ^ .UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Newsholme Parish (1170215119)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
3. ^ a b "Wards and parishes map". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
4. ^ Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. HORTON.
5. ^ Historic England. "Little Painley bowl barrow (1009494)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
6. ^ "Horton Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
7. ^ "Gisburn, Rimington". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
8. ^ MKH Computer Services Ltd. "Pennine Bridleway — LDWA Long Distance Paths". Ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
9. ^ MKH Computer Services Ltd. "Ribble Way — LDWA Long Distance Paths". Ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2016.

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Geography of the Borough of Ribble Valley

Towns|

* Clitheroe
* Longridge

Villages
and suburbs|

* Balderstone
* Barrow
* Bashall Eaves
* Billington
* Bolton-by-Bowland
* Brockhall Village
* Chatburn
* Chipping
* Clayton-le-Dale
* Dinckley
* Downham
* Dunsop Bridge
* Gisburn
* Great Mitton
* Grindleton
* Horton
* Hurst Green
* Langho
* Low Moor
* Mellor Brook
* Mellor
* Middop
* Newsholme
* Newton
* Osbaldeston
* Paythorne
* Pendleton
* Read
* Ribchester
* Rimington
* Sabden
* Salesbury
* Sawley
* Simonstone
* Slaidburn
* Stydd
* Tosside
* Twiston
* Waddington
* West Bradford
* Whalley
* Whitewell
* Wilpshire
* Wiswell
* Worston
* York

Parishes|

* Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley
* Balderstone
* Bashall Eaves
* Billington and Langho
* Bolton-by-Bowland
* Bowland Forest High
* Bowland Forest Low
* Bowland-with-Leagram
* Chatburn
* Chipping
* Clayton-le-Dale
* Clitheroe
* Dinckley
* Downham
* Dutton
* Easington
* Gisburn
* Gisburn Forest
* Great Mitton
* Grindleton
* Horton
* Hothersall
* Little Mitton
* Longridge
* Mearley
* Mellor
* Middop
* Newsholme
* Newton
* Osbaldeston
* Paythorne
* Pendleton
* Ramsgreave
* Read
* Ribchester
* Rimington
* Sabden
* Salesbury
* Sawley
* Simonstone
* Slaidburn
* Thornley-with-Wheatley
* Twiston
* Waddington
* West Bradford
* Whalley
* Wilpshire
* Wiswell
* Worston

Topography|

* Centre of Great Britain
* Forest of Bowland
* Forest of Pendle
* Stocks Reservoir
* Stonyhurst
* Trough of Bowland

Footpaths|

* Ribble Way
* Lancashire Witches Walk

Hills|

* Easington Fell
* Fair Snape Fell
* Hawthornthwaite Fell
* Longridge Fell
* Parlick
* Pendle Hill
* White Hill
* Wolfhole Crag

Waterways|

* Bashall Brook
* Dinckley Brook
* Mearley Brook
* R Calder
* R Dunsop
* R Hodder
* R Loud
* Pendleton Brook
* R Ribble
* tributaries
* Sabden Brook
* Skirden Beck
* Stock Beck
* Stydd Brook

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