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Padiham
Padiham is located in the Borough of Burnley
Padiham
Padiham
Shown within Burnley Borough
Padiham is located in Lancashire
Padiham
Padiham
Location withinLancashire
Area2.46 sq mi (6.4 km2)[1]
Population10,098(2011)[1]
•Density4,105/sq mi (1,585/km2)
OS grid referenceSD7933
Civil parish
  • Padiham
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBURNLEY
Postcode districtBB12
Dialling code01282
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53°47′49″N2°18′40″W/ 53.797°N 2.311°W/53.797; -2.311
Church Street looking north from St Leonard's, c. 1900. The Old Black Bull is next to the church. The view has hardly changed, but unlike some others, the street is no longercobbled.
St Leonard's Church, from Guy Street
Gawthorpe Hallin Padiham. Owned byNational Trustbut jointly managed withLancashire County Council.

Padiham(/ˈpædiəm/PAD-i-əm) is a market town andcivil parishon theRiver Calder,in theBorough of BurnleyinLancashire,England. It is located north west ofBurnley,and north east of the towns ofClayton le MoorsandGreat Harwood.It is edged by the foothills ofPendle Hillto the north-west and north-east. TheUnited Kingdom Census 2011gave a parish population of 10,098,[1]estimated in 2019 at 10,138.[2]

History

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Early forms of the name include "Padingham", with the last element probably from theOld Englishwordhām,meaning home andingin this sense meaning "of the". Its first is generally thought to be a personal name:Bedelisted Padda as one of the priests who assistedBishop Wilfridin the late 7th century.[3][4]

No prehistoric orRomansites have been found in the built-up area. Padiham, though a name ofAnglo-Saxonorigin, is not recorded in the 1086Domesday Book.[5]Padiham was never a separatemanor,its lands largely being held bycopyholdtenants of the Manor of Ightenhill, a part of theHonour of Clitheroe.In 1258 there was a single free tenant, one Gilbert de Padiham. The Lord of Clitheroe had established a water-powered corn mill here by 1311.[6]It remained for centuries as a market town, where produce fromPendlesidewas bought and sold. The town expanded and was redeveloped during theIndustrial Revolution.The centre is now aconservation area.

Padiham's population peaked around 1921 at about 14,000, declining to 10,000 in the early 1960s and 8,998 at the time of the 2001 census.[7][8]This reflected how people were moving to the south of England in search of work, after the decline in the traditional cotton, coal and engineering manufacturing industries.

Queen Elizabeth IIandPrince Philipfirst visitedBurnley,Nelsonand the oldMullardvalve factory atSimonstonenear Padiham on their post-Coronationtour of Lancashire in 1955.[9]

Governance

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Padiham, once atownshipin the parish of Whalley, became acivil parishin 1866.[7]Anurban districtcovered the town from 1894 until 1974, but over this time, some rural areas mainly to the north became a new civil parish, Northtown, as part ofBurnley Rural District.[10]The Padiham Green area, hitherto part of Hapton,[a]joined Padiham, with another small area following in 1935.[7]Since 1974 Padiham has formed part of theBorough of Burnley.Initially part of anunparished area,a new Padiham civil parish was formed in late 2001, covering a similar area to the old urban district.[12]ATown Councilwas instituted in 2002.[13]Further boundary changes in 2004 saw the parish gain more territory in the south from Hapton.[14]

Councillors for Padiham onBurnley Borough Councilare elected to theGawthorpe Ward,which covers most of Padiham, but notGawthorpe Hall,[15]with southern and eastern areas covered by Hapton with Park Ward.[16]The two wards each electthree councillors, John Harbour and Alun Lewis of theLabour Partyand Karen Ingham (Conservative) currently serving Gawthorpe and Joanne Broughton, Alan Hosker, and Jamie McGowan, all of theConservativesin Hapton with Park.[17]The parish is represented onLancashire County Councilas part of the Padiham & Burnley Westdivision,represented since2017by Alan Hosker.[18]The Parliamentary Constituency,Burnley,is currently represented byOliver Ryanfor the Labour Party.

Demography

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According to theUnited Kingdom Census 2011,the parish had a population of 10,098,[1]an increase from 8,998 in the 2001 census.[19]The town forms part of a widerurban area,which had a population of 149,796 in 2001.[20]A similar but larger,Burnley Built-up areadefined in the 2011 census had a population of 149,422.[21]

The racial composition of the town in 2011 was 98.1% White (96.6% White British), 1.1% Asian, 0.1% Black, 0.5% Mixed and 0.1% Other. The largest religious groups were Christian (70.0%) and Muslim (0.6%). 68.3% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 were classed as economically active and in work.[1]

Year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1939 1951 1961 2001 2011
Population 12,205 13,635 12,471 11,633 10,011 10,041 9,899 8,998 10,098
UD(pre-1974)[22]CP(2001 onwards)[19][1]

Economy

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In the 19th century, Padiham's industry was based oncoal-miningandweaving.Helm Mill on Factory Lane was the first mill built in 1807. By 1906 there were twentycotton mills[23]though the best preserved, now converted into flats, is Victoria Mill in Ightenhill Street, built in 1852–1853 and extended in 1873.[23]Many cotton workers belonged to thePadiham Weavers' Association,whose membership peaked in 1907 at over 6,000.[24][25]

Industrial development was helped by proximity to theLeeds and Liverpool Canal,about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south. By 1848, Padiham had many coal pits around the town, including two large collieries and a number of smaller workings. Availability of coal and water nearby helped to boost the cotton industry.[5]Industry benefited further from the arrival of the railway atHaptonin 1840 and Padiham itself in 1877.[5]The last pit closed about 1870,[26]although mining continued in areas outside the town into the 1950s, andopen cast miningtook place in the 1960s east of the town close to Gawthorpe Hall, north of the River Calder off Grove Lane.

Since the 1960s, the remaining cotton mills have continued a decline that began in the 1930s. So too has Padiham's role as a manufacturing base since the 1990s. The town's last major employer in the sector,Baxi,closed its factory in March 2007, with a loss of 500 jobs.[27]A modern business park,Shuttleworth Mead,[28]opened in 2001 on the western edge of the town wherePadiham Power Stationhad stood until 1993.[29]The business park has been supported by £2.2 million from theEuropean Regional Development Fundand £2 million from theNorth West Development Agency.[30]Tenants include Supanet, an internet service provider (ISP) and Graham & Brown, a wall coverings company.

In 2007 Fort Vale Engineering developed a new purpose-built factory, where the oldMullard/Philips site at Calder Vale Park,Simonstonehad closed in 2004. Fort Vale Engineering employs some 280 local people and has brought business to other local employers.

Landmarks

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There are five significant mansions in the local area:Huntroyde Hall,[31]dating from 1576, andSimonstone Hall,dating from 1660, in nearbySimonstone,are still privately owned.Gawthorpe Hallwas donated to theNational Trustin 1970, but is jointly managed withLancashire County Councilunder a 99-year lease. Gawthorpe is in theIghtenhilldistrict.[32] The National Trust also runs an office and a tearoom in the courtyard of the property.[33][34]Gawthorpe was owned by the Shuttleworth family, which heldShuttleworth Hallnear Hapton from the 12th century.[35][36]The current building dates from 1639 and is still a working farm.Read Hall and Parkis in the nearby village ofRead,about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Padiham on theA671.

St Leonard's Parish Church

St Leonard's Parish Church dates from 1866 to 1869 and is aGrade II listed building.[37]It occupies the site of earlier churches dating back to 1451 or earlier.[38]The original churchyard was smaller in extent than today, being expanded to the northern edge in 1835.[5]

Padiham Town Hallin Burnley Road, built in 1938 to designs byBradshaw Gass & Hope,is a Grade II listed building.[39]

Padiham Memorial Park at the top of Church Street, was designed byThomas Mawson,a prolific landscape designer.[40][41][42]It was officially opened in 1921 as a memorial to those of the town who gave their lives in theFirst World War.It now commemorates victims of the Second World War as well.

The park covers 12 acres (4.9 ha) on two sites divided by the River Calder. The upper section is mainly formal, dominated by Knight Hill House, currently used as anAge UK(formerlyAge Concern) day centre, and has a rose garden, lawns and two memorials. The lower section, off Park Street, has two bowling greens, tennis courts, skate park and Padiham Leisure Centre. The park is aGreen Flag awardwinner.[43]The park still had remains of some Second World Warair raid sheltersin 2008.[44]

The oldNational School,Mill Street, built in 1830 and used until 1904

Another locally listed building is the former Padiham Building Society headquarters. A detached building over two storeys with large underground vault on Burnley Road, constructed between 1955-1958 and officially opened in 1959. The building was recently renovated by local businessman Liam Veitch and converted into individual office spaces.

Padiham War Memorial itself is at the main park entrance in Blackburn Road.[45]There is a second memorial at All Saints' with St John the Baptist off the A671, Padiham Road, opposite the George IV pub.[46]A local man, Thomas Clayton, funded the park in his will; public subscription provided additional money for the park's many features.[47]

Near the war memorial, the Air Crash Memorial recalls several local young people killed on 3 July 1970, when a Dan Airde Havilland Cometdeviated from its course and crashed into the high ground of theMontseny Rangein north-eastern Spain – see:Dan-Air Flight 1903.[48]The aircraft, destroyed on impact and by subsequent ground fire, contained three flight crew, four cabin crew and 105 passengers, all of whom died. It was the airline's first fatal accident involving fare-paying passengers.[49]The tour operator,Clarksons Holidays,was at the time Britain's largestpackage holidaycompany.[50]

Several other buildings in the area are also of historic interest. Hargrove can be seen from a public footpath off the Padiham by-pass just north of the town and the 1950s council housing estate north of Windermere Road. For over 400 years it was the home of the Webster family ofyeomanfarmers.[51]The house is probably 17th century and part of the Huntroyed estate. Coal from a localoutcropheated the house for many years. Stockbridge House in Victoria Road was occupied by the Holts, a farming family, in 1802 and has aJacobeanchimney.[51]High Whitaker Farm is north-east of Hargrove, accessible by public footpath from Higham Road and from Grove Lane. The building is 16th century and said to have been used tohide Catholicsduring the reign ofHenry VIII.[51]Other houses of note are Priddy Bank Farm and Foulds House Farm, both off Sabden Road, andArbory Lodgeon Arbory Drive.[51]

Media

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Local news and television programmes are provided byBBC North WestandITV Granada.Television signals are received from theWinter HillTV transmitter and the local relay TV transmitter located in theForest of Pendle.[52][53]

Local radio stations areBBC Radio Lancashire,Heart North West,Smooth North West,Central Radio North West,Greatest Hits Radio LancashireandCapital Manchester and Lancashire(formerly2BR).[citation needed]

The town is served by the local newspapers,Burnley ExpressandLancashire Telegraph.

Between 1994 and 1996 three series of theBBC Onecomedy drama seriesAll Quiet on the Preston Frontwas filmed in the town as the show's fictional setting of Roker Bridge.[54]

Transport

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Rail

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Padiham railway stationwas on a branch line (known as theGreat Harwoodloop) of theEast Lancashire Linefrom Burnley toBlackburn.It opened in 1877, but was closed on 2 December 1957 and the station later demolished. The line was retained for deliveries of coal toPadiham Power Stationuntil that closed in 1993. The nearest railway station now is atHapton,about 2 miles (3.2 km) south. The old line was converted into a footpath/bridleway/cycleway calledPadiham Greenway,completed in June 2010.

Buses

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The town is served byBurnley Bus Companyservices fromAccrington,Burnley,Nelson,Colneand beyond,[55]and by aBlackburn Bus Companyservice 152 fromBurnley,BlackburnandPreston.[56]

Road

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Junctions 8 and 10 of theM65are both some 2 miles (3 km) from the town centre. Junction 8 of the M65 also gives access to theA56dual carriagewayleading to theM66and access to theManchestermotorway network.

Air

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The nearest airport,Manchester,is 50 minutes' drive.[57]The best route by public transport is via Blackburn, then train. It takes some 2¼ hours.[58]

Historic maps

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The 1845[5][59]map (1) shows the town of Padiham in the early days of the Lancashirecotton industryinVictorian times,with three mills marked. Most of the town at that stage was north of the river. The top left-hand corner shows part of theHuntroyde Demesne.[31]The River Calder, on the right of the map, flows to the north, having been diverted in the early 19th century from its original route, away from Gawthorpe Hall (shown in pink), because of pollution. In the 1960s the river was re-routed to its original course to accommodateopen-cast coal mining.[38]

The 1890Ordnance Surveymap (2) shows the cotton-industry growth of the cotton industry in the later 19th century. The 1–25,000 scale OS map (3) is a partial extract from the two maps indicated. Several historic locations shown includeRead Hall(A2) andRead(B2); Martholme, just east ofMartholme Viaduct(A3);Simonstoneand Simonstone Hall (C3);Huntroydand grounds (D1–D2);Padiham Power Station(D3) with the connecting line for fuel; post-war housing north of the town off Slade Lane (E2); High Whitaker (F1); the River Calder on the old course from Gawthore Hall and grounds (F2);Pendle Hall(G1);IghtenhillManor House (G2); and theLeeds and Liverpool Canalin Burnley (J1). The railway line through Padiham also appears.

  • 1: Map of Padiham c. 1844
    1: Map of Padiham c. 1844
  • 2: Ordnance Survey map dated 1890
    2: Ordnance Survey map dated 1890
  • 3: Extract from OS 1-25,000 scale maps SD73 (west section pub 1955) and SD83 (east section published 1954) showing historical locations around Padiham. Grid lines are 1 km.
    3: Extract from OS 1-25,000 scale maps SD73 (west section pub 1955) and SD83 (east section published 1954) showing historical locations around Padiham. Grid lines are 1 km.

Notable people

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Freedom of the Town

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The following have received theFreedom of the Townof Padiham.

Individuals

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  • Robert "Bob" Clark: 29 June 2021.[64][65]

See also

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References

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Notes

  1. ^The old township boundary withHaptonfollowed theRiver Calderand its tributary,Green Brook.[11]

Citations

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