Roeburndale

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|static_image_caption= Roeburndale Methodist Chapel

| official_name= Roeburndale

| civil_parish= Roeburndale

| country= England

| region= North West England

| population = 76

| population_ref = (2001)

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| post_town= LANCASTER

| postcode_area= LA

| postcode_district= LA2

| dial_code= 015242

| shire_district= Lancaster

| shire_county= Lancashire

| constituency_westminster= Morecambe and Lunesdale

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Roeburndale is a civil parish in the City of Lancaster and the English county of Lancashire. In 2001 it had a population of 76.{{cite web | url=http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf | title=Parish headcount | accessdate=2008-04-13 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210214612/http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf | archivedate=10 December 2006 | df=dmy-all }} In the 2011 census Roeburndale was grouped with Claughton. The parish includes the village of Salter. The River Roeburn flows through the parish. It gives its name to the Roeburndale geological formation.

History

From the Middle Ages, Roeburndale was the Chase of the Honour of Hornby Castle.{{cite journal|journal=Contrebis|publisher=Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society|url=https://lahs.archaeologyuk.org/Contrebis/23_29_Holt.pdf|first=Jennifer S.|last=Holt|title=Roeburndale: An Interpretation of the "1582" Survey|volume=23|date=1998}}

On Tuesday 3 July 1979 a BAC Jet Provost crashed at Salter Fell. The pilot Flt Lt Thomas Durk Bayliff was killed.Liverpool Echo Tuesday 3 July 1979, page 1 He had studied Aeronautical Engineering at Queen's University Belfast in 1977.Belfast News Letter Wednesday 6 July 1977, page 3[https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/56633 1979 air crash]

In January 2022, one person was killed and others were injured when a bridge collapsed into the River Roeburn in Roeburndale.{{Cite news|title=Man dead, several injured following bridge collapse|language=en-GB|work=belfasttelegraph|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/man-dead-several-injured-following-bridge-collapse-41254466.html|access-date=2022-01-19|issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite news|date=2022-01-18|title=Four rescued from Roeburndale river after bridge crash|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-60045560|access-date=2022-01-19}}

See also

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