Sawley, Lancashire

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name = Sawley

| civil_parish = Sawley

| population = 345

| population_ref = (2011 Census)

| country = England

| region = North West England

| os_grid_reference = SD776465

| post_town = CLITHEROE

| postcode_area = BB

| postcode_district = BB7

| dial_code = 01200

| constituency_westminster = Ribble Valley

| shire_district = Ribble Valley

| shire_county = Lancashire

| coordinates = {{coord|53.914|-2.341|display=inline,title}}

| static_image = Sawley.jpg

| static_image_width = 250px

| static_image_caption = Sawley

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Borough of Ribble Valley

| pushpin_map_caption = Shown within Ribble Valley

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Sawley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish was 305 at the 2001 Census,{{cite web|url=http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf |title=Parish headcount |work=Lancashire Parish Portal |publisher=Lancashire County Council |accessdate=2008-09-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210214612/http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf |archivedate=10 December 2006 }} rising to 345 at the 2011 census.{{NOMIS2011|id=1170215130|title=Sawley Parish|accessdate=8 February 2018}} It is situated north-east of Clitheroe, on the River Ribble. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Bolton-by-Bowland, Paythorne, Gisburn, Rimington, Downham, Chatburn and Grindleton.

History

Historically, Sawley fell under the Earl of Northumberland's Percy fee rather than being part of the neighbouring Lordship of Bowland.The Lordship of Bowland http://www.forestofbowland.com/node/1864

Sawley Abbey, a ruined abbey of Cistercian monks, is in the village. The abbey was founded in 1147 and dissolved in 1536.{{NHLE |num=1072099 |desc=Sawley Abbey |accessdate=2008-09-20}} By the early 17th-century, the manor had come into the possession of James Hay, who in 1615 was created Lord Hay of Sawley, and later 1st Earl of Carlisle.{{citation |last=Whitaker |first=Thomas Dunham |title=The history and antiquities of the deanery of Craven 3rd ed. |date=1878 |publisher=Dodson (Leeds) and Cassell, Petter & Galpin (London) |url=http://www.skiptoncastle.co.uk/history-of-craven.asp |pages=71–2|oclc=504073084}}

Governance

Sawley was an extra-parochial area in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1858, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974. The civil parish previously had a detached area on the southern side of Gisburn with a smaller part of that parish on the western side of Sawley. In 1938 these areas were joined with the respective parishes.{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10466817/relationships |title=Sawley CP/ExP through time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |work=visionofbritain.org.uk |accessdate=25 March 2016}} It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of Ribble Valley.

Sawley shares a parish council with two other parishes, Bolton-by-Bowland and Gisburn Forest.{{cite web | url=http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/parishes/parish_display.asp?parishid=179 | title=Bolton-by-Bowland, Gisburn Forest and Sawley Parish Council | work=Lancashire Parish Portal | publisher=Lancashire County Council | accessdate=2008-09-20 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060107074456/http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/parishes/parish_display.asp?parishid=179 | archivedate=7 January 2006 }}

Along with Waddington, West Bradford and Grindleton, the parish forms the Waddington and West Bradford ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.

{{cite web |publisher=Lancashire County Council |title=Waddington and West Bradford |website=MARIO |url=http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/default.aspx?categ=boundaries&wardcode=30ULGY&layeron=Ward%20Boundary&layeron=Parish%20Boundaries |accessdate=25 March 2016}}{{cite web |publisher=Ordnance Survey |title=Waddington and West Bradford |website=Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform |url=http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000004708 |accessdate=25 March 2016}}