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Mearley
Little Mearley Hall
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Population	25 (2001)
OS grid reference	SD769410
Civil parish	Mearley
District	Ribble Valley
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CLITHEROE
Postcode district	BB7
Dialling code	01200
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Ribble Valley
List of places UK England Lancashire 53°51′54″N 2°21′07″W / 53.865°N 2.352°W / 53.865; -2.352

Mearley is a civil parish in Lancashire, England. The parish is north-west of Pendle Hill, east of Clitheroe, and is in the Ribble Valley district. It is a small parish with no villages or hamlets and a population of 25, the second smallest in Lancashire, at the 2001 census. It has no parish council, but instead has a parish meeting shared with neighbouring Worston. From the 2011 Census population information for both Mearley and Worston is included within the civil parish of Pendleton, giving a total of 349. The eastern part of the parish is included in the Pendle outlier section of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Worston, Clitheroe, Pendleton and Sabden, along with Goldshaw Booth in the Borough of Pendle.

The name is thought to mean the meadow or clearing at the boundary, from the Old English ġemǣre and lēah.

Mearley 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 Wiswell and Barrow (since 2015), both Mearley and Worston form the Wiswell and Pendleton ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.

• Mearley Hall farmhouse
• A disused lime kiln near Mearley Hall
• Mearley Brook runs through the north of the parish
• Mearley Moor viewed from Pendleton

See also

• Listed buildings in Mearley

References

1. ^ "Parish headcount" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
2. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Pendleton Parish (1170215123)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
3. Forest of Bowland map (Map). forestofbowland.com. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
4. Ekwall, Eilert (1922). The place-names of Lancashire. Manchester University Press. pp. 14, 78. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
5. "Mearley Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
6. "Wiswell and Pendleton". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
7. "Wiswell and Pendleton". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 December 2021.

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Mearley at Wikimedia Commons

• Worston and Mearley Parish Meeting
• The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Vol 6

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