Padiham

Padiham is a small city and civil parish at the River Calder, about 3 miles west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill, in Lancashire, England. It is part of the Borough of Burnley, but has its very own city council with numerous powers. Padiham was at the beginning a rural village lying via the River Calder. It is still surrounded by attractive geographical region on an arc strolling from the north-west to the north-east inside the foothills of Pendle Hill.

According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 10,098, an boom from 8,998 within the 2001 census. No prehistoric or Roman websites were observed inside the urban area and Padiham, a name of Anglo-Saxon origin, isn't recorded in the Domesday Book. The first recorded point out of the metropolis, as Padyngham, dates from 1294. For masses of years it become a market metropolis wherein produce from Pendleside become sold and sold.

The city multiplied and turned into significantly redeveloped during the Industrial Revolution and the important area is now a conservation place. Padiham's population peaked around 1921 at about 14,000 declining to 10,000 in the early 1960s and 8,998 at the time of the 2001 census. This follows people transferring to the south of England searching for paintings following the decline of the conventional cotton, coal and engineering manufacturing base all through that length.