Mearley

Mearley
Little Mearley Hall
Mearley is located in the Borough of Ribble Valley
Mearley
Mearley
Shown within Ribble Valley
Mearley is located in Lancashire
Mearley
Mearley
Location within Lancashire
Population25 (2001)[1]
OS grid referenceSD769410
Civil parish
  • Mearley
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCLITHEROE
Postcode districtBB7
Dialling code01200
PoliceLancashire
FireLancashire
AmbulanceNorth West
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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.[1] 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.[2] The eastern part of the parish is included in the Pendle outlier section of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).[3]

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.[4]

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.[5]

Along with Wiswell and Barrow (since 2015), both Mearley and Worston form the Wiswell and Pendleton ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.[6][7]

  • Mearley Hall farmhouse
    Mearley Hall farmhouse
  • A disused lime kiln near Mearley Hall
    A disused lime kiln near Mearley Hall
  • Mearley Brook runs through the north of the parish
    Mearley Brook runs through the north of the parish
  • Mearley Moor viewed from Pendleton
    Mearley Moor viewed from Pendleton
  1. ^ a b "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.