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Higham is a village in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, south of Pendle Hill. The civil parish is named Higham with West Close Booth. The village is north-east of Padiham and about south west of Nelson along the A6068 road. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 778,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics )〕 a decrease from 808 in the 2001 census.〔(Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Key Statistics'' ) Retrieved 2 September 2015〕 The parish adjoins the other Pendle parishes of Goldshaw Booth, Old Laund Booth and Reedley Hallows, the Burnley parishes of Ightenhill and Padiham, and the Ribble Valley parishes of Simonstone and Sabden. The area of the parish north of Stump Hall Road is part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). ==Governance== Higham with West Close Booth was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Burnley Rural District from 1894. The township included a detached area south of the village of Fence, but this part transferred to Old Laund Booth in 1898. A part of the parish also transferred to Sabden on its creation in 1904. Along with Goldshaw Booth, Barley-with-Wheatley Booth and Roughlee Booth, the parish forms the Higham with Pendleside ward of Pendle Borough Council. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Higham, Lancashire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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