Twiston is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley District, in the English county of Lancashire. It is near the town of Clitheroe and the village of Downham (in whose parish the population of Twiston is now included). The parish is part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). It adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Downham and Rimington, and the Pendle parish of Barley-with-Wheatley Booth.
Twiston was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Clitheroe Rural District from 1894 till 1974.
Along with Chatburn and Downham, the parish makes up the Chatburn ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.
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See also
- Lancashire portal
External links
Media related to Twiston at Wikimedia Commons
References
Forest of Bowland map (Map). forestofbowland.com. Lancashire County Council. http://forestofbowland.com/main-map ↩
"Twiston Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2016. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10381680#tab02 ↩
"Chatburn". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 25 March 2016. http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/default.aspx?categ=boundaries&wardcode=30ULGF&layeron=Ward%20Boundary&layeron=Parish%20Boundaries ↩
"Chatburn". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 25 March 2016. http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000004725 ↩