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The Grindleton Pavilion is now open and available for your events!
The new Pavilion web-page provides all necessary information for bookings and shows photographs, floor-plans and the online Pavilion diary.
We welcome all enquiries for private or public events. Bookings and associated enquiries can be made using grindletonpavilion@gmail.com or by telephoning Peter Norcliffe on 07805 714217. For enquiries of a more general nature about the Pavilion, please contact Anne Huson (01200 440141).
Grindleton lies in the valley of the River Ribble, between Pendle Hill and the rising fells of the Forest of Bowland. It is a historical village, identified in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Gretlintone.
The Parish Council
Welcome to the Grindleton village website. The site has been developed by the Parish Council. Our aim is to offer residents and visitors a focus for events and activities taking place in the village and its environs, to enable access to Parish Council documents and to advise residents of local issues. Information is also available from organisations such as the police and local charities.
We also seek to promote the village to visitors and to support local businesses.
The website highlights to residents and visitors alike, the opportunities for recreation and exercise in our beautiful surroundings.
The fells and valleys of the Forest of Bowland AONB, Pendle Hill and the Ribble Valley are internationally recognised as outstanding landscapes.
Announcements
The next meeting of the Parish Council will be at 7:30pm in the Parish Room in the school on 15 July 2013. All are welcome.
The Grindleton 100 Club is a fundraising project run by the Grindleton Recreation Ground Charity. It is a subscription club limited to 100 members, where paid-up members are included in draws for cash prizes. There is an annual draw and a series of monthly draws. Please go to the new Grindleton 100 Club website.
Events
The Village Diary lists the principal village events, including public events at the Pavilion; the Diary is here. It does not list regular monthly or weekly events such as WI meetings and church services.
St. Ambrose Parish Church events are principally on the Churches web-page.
The Grindleton WI meetings are held monthly. Download this month's Diary Dates for information on events.
Grindleton Pavilion...now open
Grindleton CE Primary School
A list of the public bodies and charities that sponsored the project are on the Pavilion web-page. This project was part financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas. Villagers and potential users raised over £80,000.
Many thanks to all who have contributed with their time or financially. John Moore & Son completed the development in November 2012 and the Pavilion was open for business in December.
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On this website
310,000 sheep in Bowland
Some of the features available are:
- Download Parish Council minutes, the Parish Plan, Parish Actions and other documents related to the Council's desire to strengthen its links with the community;
- View the Village Diary;
- View comprehensive information on the facilities at the Grindleton Pavilion, check availability online for your events, and contact the manager Peter Norcliffe;
- View a list of activities available in the village and other local communities;
- Get advice on the ways to contact the police and our Emergency Community Support Office;
- Support the Recreation Ground Charity by attending publicised fund-raising events;
- Acquire information on outdoor activities, and view a gallery of the village and fells;
- Through Google mapping, view and navigate active satellite images and maps of the area;
- A history of the village and download our village Heritage Trail.
An abridged history
Grindleton is one of a series of villages on a terrace above the River Ribble. Our neighbours are Sawley, West Bradford and Waddington. Clitheroe is about three miles away, and Chatburn is situated across the river close to the foot of Pendle Hill.
The historical character of the village is farming, and cottage-based hand-loom weaving. Grindleton is a planned Saxon village. The Main Street is linear, climbing up towards the fell, parallel to Grindleton Brook.
The village is famed for a 17th century non-conformist religious sect - the Grindletonians. Jam making was a local industry and damson trees still grow in a number of gardens.
Grindleton's mills are now gone. Gandhi visited the area in 1931 as part of his visit to the Lancashire cotton industry. He came at the invitation of the Secretary of State for India to see for himself the impact of the Indian National Congress' policy on the boycotting of English cotton goods.
The remains of Sawley Abbey
are a short distance away.
The Parish Church of St. Ambrose dates from 1805, and its chancel, north aisle and porch from the 1895. The church is named after St. Ambrose of Milan, the patron saint of beekeepers. [More...]