Twiston

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2015}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Twiston

| civil_parish= Twiston

| population = 64

| population_ref = (2001 Census)[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790443 Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Ribble Valley] Retrieved 31 July 2010

| country= England

| region= North West England

| os_grid_reference= SD813438

| 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|53.8907|-2.2851|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Borough of Ribble Valley

| pushpin_map_caption = Shown within Ribble Valley

}}

Twiston is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley District, in the English county of Lancashire. It is near the town of Clitheroe and the village of Downham (in whose parish the population of Twiston is now included). The parish is part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).{{Cite map |url= http://forestofbowland.com/main-map|publisher=Lancashire County Council |title=Forest of Bowland map |series=forestofbowland.com |scale= |edition= |year=}} It adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Downham and Rimington, and the Pendle parish of Barley-with-Wheatley Booth.

Twiston 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10381680#tab02 |title=Twiston Tn/CP through time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |work=visionofbritain.org.uk |accessdate=4 January 2016}}

Along with Chatburn and Downham, the parish makes up the Chatburn ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.

{{cite web |publisher=Lancashire County Council |title=Chatburn |website=MARIO |url=http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/default.aspx?categ=boundaries&wardcode=30ULGF&layeron=Ward%20Boundary&layeron=Parish%20Boundaries |accessdate=25 March 2016}}{{cite web |publisher=Ordnance Survey |title=Chatburn |website=Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform |url=http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000004725 |accessdate=25 March 2016}}