Barnoldswick
Historic county of Yorkshire
Barnoldswick is 8 miles west-south-west of Skipton in North Yorkshire and 12 miles (17 by road) west-north-west of Keighley in West Yorkshire. Lancashire neighbours include Burnley, from where it is 9 miles to the north-north-east, and Colne, from where it is 4 miles to the north.
The building of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, reaching Barnoldswick in the 1790s, linked Barnoldswick to the West Riding textile industry, although most of the mills which developed in the town were cotton rather than woollen mills. The arrival of a railway branch to Barnoldswick in 1871 continued to boost its industrial growth, although the line eventually closed under the Beeching axe of the 1960s.
The last of the town's mills, Bancroft Mill, closed to cloth production in 1978, but its engine house continues to open as a museum exhibiting its 100-year-old mill steam engine.
In more recent years industry in the town has diversified with it becoming well-known for being the place where jet aero engines have been designed, a leading bed manufacturer has settled and and as a hotbed for cast iron stove making.
The Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty begins about 4 miles to the west and the Yorkshire Dales National Park around 8 miles to the north.
Town features
Barnoldswick was formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Barnoldswick has a choice of pubs. 
The town has a range of shops and supermarkets.
The town has a Post Office.
The town has pharmacies.
Barnoldswick has bank and building society branches.
A choice of cafes can be found in Barnoldswick.
Takeaway food outlets in the town include fish and chips, chinese, curries, sandwiches.
Restaurant and bistro dining can be found in Barnoldswick.
Barnoldswick has a civic hall. 
The town has a library. 
Barnoldswick has a community theatre - . Barnoldswick Music and Arts Centre.
The town has a leisure centre with swimming pool.
Barnoldswick has schools.
Places of worship: Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, other.
Barnoldswick is on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. 
Travel
Bus travel
The town has buses to neighbouring towns and villages. 
Road travel
Barnoldswick can be reached via the B6251 B6252 B6383 Places to visit
Bancroft Mill Engine Museum
Gillians Lane, Barnoldswick
The museum exhibits a 100-year-old mill engine, the last working steam mill engine in the area, which is kept in running order by the Bancroft Mill Engine Trust. From its preserved engine house, the engine once drove over a thousand looms at the mill, also generating electricity and recharging batteries for lighting. Details of when the museum opens and the engine is in steam at weekends can be found via its website. More information can be found at the 
Bancroft Mill Engine Museum
Bancroft Mill Engine Museum
Skipton Castle
Skipton Castle is one of England's best restored medieval castles, standing between the town of
Find out more at
Skipton CastleFind on map:
Skipton Castle
Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Operates from Embsay, about 1.5 miles from Skipton, to Bolton Abbey station about a mile away from the attractive priory ruins and beauty spot beside the River Wharfe at Bolton Abbey. The railway runs trains on most days during the summer and at weekends at other times of year, except January. It also has a range of special weekend events, dining trains and footplate and signal box experience courses. Tank engines are the mainstay of steam operations on the line, but the railway also has a collection of historic diesel locomotives. Also running on the line some days is a restored hybrid electric railcar, which was way ahead of its time when built in York in 1903.
More information at the
Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam RailwayFind on map:
Embsay Station Malham
Malham is a small village in a hill farming community in the Yorkshire Dales National Park which has for many years attracted tourists, walkers and geographers as the location of some of the country's most magnificent limestone scenery. Find out more about 
Emergency services
Lancashire Constabulary Lancashire ConstabularyLancashire Fire and Rescue Service
Lancashire Fire and Rescue ServiceNorth West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Local government
Civil parish council
Barnoldswick Town CouncilProvides some local services in the area.
Link to council website:
Barnoldswick Town CouncilDistrict authority
Pendle Borough CouncilPendle Borough Council is one of 12 shire district authorities within the county of Lancashire.
Its northern area, forming about a quarter of the borough, was in the West Riding of Yorkshire before local government reorganisation in 1974. The area includes the towns of
It borders the Burnley and Ribble Valley districts of Lancashire, the latter also including parts of the West Riding, and also the Craven district of North Yorkshire.
The council is made up of 33 councillors, reduced in a full council election in 2021 from 48. They are elected for 4-year terms with one-third of the council elected each year in three out of four years.
Political composition after May 2024 election:
33 members
Link to Pendle Borough Council website.
Pendle Borough CouncilCounty authority
Lancashire County CouncilPolitical composition after the May 2025 election:
84 members
Lancashire County CouncilPolice and Crime Commissioner
The Police and Crime Commissioner for LancashireOversees policing across the Lancashire Constabulary area.
Elected P&CC:
Police and Crime Commissioner for LancashireFire Authority
Lancashire Combined Fire AuthorityThe fire authority is made up of 25 elected members, consisting of 19 Lancashire county councillors and 3 councillors each from the two unitary authorities of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen.
Lancashire Combined Fire AuthorityParliamentary constituency
Pendle and ClitheroeElected MP:
National government region
North West EnglandCeremonial county
LancashireHistoric
1894-1974: Within the West Riding of Yorkshire.1974-present: Within Pendle district of the county of Lancashire.