Twiston

Twiston is a village and a civil parish in the <a href="/facts/Ribble_Valley/r1bgeRby">Ribble Valley</a> District, in the English county of <a href="/facts/Lancashire/XmzHoIsl">Lancashire</a>. It is near the town of <a href="/facts/Clitheroe/3UwIYdvr">Clitheroe</a> and the village of <a href="/facts/Downham,_Lancashire/Lq58YaGT">Downham</a> (in whose parish the population of Twiston is now included). The parish is part of the <a href="/facts/Forest_of_Bowland/pLQxT3e7">Forest of Bowland</a> <a href="/facts/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty/MDTR4U1e">Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty</a> (AONB). It adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of <a href="/facts/Downham,_Lancashire/Lq58YaGT">Downham</a> and <a href="/facts/Rimington/68QxwKKb">Rimington</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Borough_of_Pendle/D0ShUoPN">Pendle</a> parish of <a href="/facts/Barley-with-Wheatley_Booth/QlPdt3DF">Barley-with-Wheatley Booth</a>.
Twiston was once a <a href="/facts/Township_(England)/EaLc9o3k">township</a> in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a <a href="/facts/Civil_parishes_in_England/4GuHX8Wm">civil parish</a> in 1866, forming part of the Clitheroe Rural District from 1894 till 1974.
Along with Chatburn and Downham, the parish makes up the <a href="/facts/Chatburn/AgFgg5tb">Chatburn</a> <a href="/facts/Wards_of_the_United_Kingdom/7WUUaBQv">ward</a> of <a href="/facts/Ribble_Valley/r1bgeRby">Ribble Valley</a> Borough Council.

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Twiston