Waddington, Lancashire

Waddington

Waddington Almshouses
Waddington
 Waddington shown within Lancashire
Population 1,028 (2011)
OS grid referenceSD725435
Civil parishWaddington
DistrictRibble Valley
Shire countyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town CLITHEROE
Postcode district BB7
Dialling code 01200
Police Lancashire
Fire Lancashire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentRibble Valley
List of places
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England
Lancashire

Coordinates: 53°53′13″N 2°25′01″W / 53.887°N 2.417°W / 53.887; -2.417

Waddington is a small village, 2 miles (3 km) north-west of Clitheroe, within the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. It is also a civil parish. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,028.[1] Before the 1974 county boundary changes, Waddington just fell within the boundary of Bowland Rural District of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It covers approximately 2000 acres of the Forest of Bowland.

It is home to both an Anglican church and a Methodist church, a social club (Waddington Club) with bowling green, a cafe, a post office, a playing field on which both cricket and football are played. Also, within the village there are three popular pubs, the Lower Buck Inn, the Higher Buck and the Waddington Arms. The village is a regular winner of the Lancashire Best Kept Village awards.

History

Waddington was a mesne manor of the ancient Lordship of Bowland which comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost 300 square miles (780 km2) on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire.[2] The manors within the Liberty were Slaidburn (Newton-in-Bowland, West Bradford, Grindleton), Knowlmere, Waddington, Easington, Bashall Eaves, Mitton, Withgill (Crook), Leagram, Hammerton and Dunnow (Battersby).[3]

The Tempests were lords of the manor of Waddington from at least the early thirteenth century. The family is credited with endowing the parish church at Waddington.[4] One of their number, Sir Nicholas Tempest, a Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland, was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1537 for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace.[5]

Following his defeat in the Battle of Hexham during the Wars of the Roses, King Henry VI was sheltered by Lancastrian supporters at houses across the north of England. Following stays at Muncaster Castle on the Cumbrian coast and at nearby Bolton Hall, he lived at Waddington Hall for about a year until he was captured by Yorkist followers in 1464.[6]

Governance

Along with West Bradford, Grindleton and Sawley, the parish forms the Waddington and West Bradford ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. [7][8] The ward had a population of 2,636 in 2001,[9] rising to 2,933 in 2011.[10] The ward elects two councillors, who currently are Paul Elms and Bridget Hilton, both of the Conservative Party.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Lord of the Fells, Guardian of History" (PDF). Rural Life. November 2014.
  3. ↑ Forest of Bowland official website
  4. ↑ Frederick George Ackerley, A History of the Parish of Mitton in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Aberdeen University Press 1947)
  5. ↑ RW Hoyle, The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s (Oxford University Press 2001)
  6. ↑ Elizabeth Ashworth, The Capture of Henry VI
  7. ↑ "Waddington and West Bradford". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Waddington and West Bradford". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Waddington and West Bradford ward population 2001". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "Waddington and West Bradford ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Councillors by Ward: Waddington and West Bradford". Ribble Valley Borough Council. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
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