Slaidburn
Historic county of Yorkshire
Slaidburn nestles in the rolling green landscape of the Hodder Valley within the Forest of Bowland National Landscape.
The village is 18 miles west of Skipton, 10 miles south west of Settle and 11 miles south of High Bentham. It is 7 miles north of the nearest Lancashire town, Clitheroe.
The village has a pleasant riverside green between its bridge over the River Hodder and the Village Hall, which provides a venue for a wide range of community activities. The village's 15th century Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building.
In the heart of the Slaidburn are a shop and the village inn, a building dating back to the 16th century, although an inn is thought to have been there hundreds of years before that. Upstairs at the Hark to Bounty inn served as a manorial court during much of the 19th and into the 20th century.
Across the road is the village youth hostel, established in 1932 in what was once the Black Bull pub.
Village features
Slaidburn was formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Slaidburn is in the Forest of Bowland National Landscape.
The village is at a bridge over the River Hodder.
Slaidburn has a shop. 
The village has a Post Office.
Slaidburn has an inn - Hark to Bounty.
Pub food is available in Slaidburn.
The village has tea-rooms.
Slaidburn has a village hall. 
There are public toilets in the village. 
Places to stay in Slaidburn include guest house, inn, hostel accommodation.
Slaidburn has a school.
Place of worship: Anglican.
Travel
Road travel
Slaidburn can be reached via the B6478 Places to visit
Forest of Bowland
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
Slaidburn and Easington Parish CouncilProvides some local services in the area.
Link to council website:
Slaidburn and Easington Parish CouncilDistrict authority
Ribble Valley Borough CouncilRibble Valley Borough Council is one of 12 shire district authorities within the county of Lancashire.
The borough, formed under local government reorganisation in 1974, is the largest of those districts and around half of its area is made up of rural parts which were in the West Riding of Yorkshire before 1974.
Its boundary-straddling position is reflected in the borough coat of arms which includes both the red rose of Lancashire and white rose of Yorkshire.
Within the Yorkshire part of the borough are the villages of
The borough borders nine of the other Lancashire districts and the Craven district of North Yorkshire. Much of the borough is within the
The council is made up of 40 councillors elected across 24 wards, where either one or two councillors are elected. Elections are held every four years, with the last election in 2019.
Link to Ribble Valley Borough Council website.
Ribble Valley Borough CouncilThe political composition after May 2023 election is:
40 members
County 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
Ribble ValleyElected MP:
National government region
North West EnglandCeremonial county
LancashireHistoric
1894-1974: Within the West Riding of Yorkshire.1974-present: Within Ribble Valley district of the county of Lancashire.