Sawley
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, rising to 345 at the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 315 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Lancashire, UK
- Also known as: “Sawley, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sawley Abbey and Spread Eagle Hotel.
Sawley Abbey
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sawley Abbey was an abbey of Cistercian monks in the village of Sawley, Lancashire, in England. Created as a daughter-house of Newminster Abbey, it existed from 1149 until its dissolution in 1536, during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Spread Eagle Hotel
Restaurant
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spread Eagle Hotel is a restaurant.
Bowland High
School
Bowland High is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Grindleton in Lancashire, England. It educates pupils from ages 11–16, and as of 2022 has approximately 550 pupils.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clitheroe and Newton-in-Bowland.
Clitheroe
Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clitheroe is an attractive market town in the Ribble Valley in East Lancashire. It has a Norman castle guarding the transport route along the valley, and is a good base for exploring the Forest of Bowland to the north.
Newton-in-Bowland
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newton or Newton-in-Bowland is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district, in the county of Lancashire, England, formerly known as Newton-on-Hodder. Newton-in-Bowland is situated 6 miles northwest of Sawley.
Tosside
Village
Photo: Graeme Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tosside is a small village on the modern border of North Yorkshire and Lancashire in Northern England. It lies within the Forest of Bowland, and is between the villages of Slaidburn in Lancashire and Wigglesworth in North Yorkshire. Tosside is situated 6 miles north of Sawley.
Sawley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Chatburn, Ribble Valley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.9143° or 53° 54′ 52″ northLongitude
-2.34132° or 2° 20′ 29″ westPopulation
315Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)Open location code
9C5VWM75+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29798193OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638475Wikidata ID
Q1835990
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Sawley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sawley”
- Dutch: “Sawley”
- French: “Sawley”
- Irish: “Sawley”
- Italian: “Sawley (Lancashire)”
- Italian: “Sawley”
- Japanese: “ソウレイ (ランカシャー)”
- Ladin: “Sawley (Lancashire)”
- Ladin: “Sawley”
- Persian: “سالی، لانکاشر”
- Polish: “Sawley”
- Russian: “Соли”
- Swedish: “Sawley, Lancashire”
- Swedish: “Sawley”
- Turkish: “Sawley, Lancashire”
- Welsh: “Sawley, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
- Welsh: “Sawley”
- “Sawley”
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