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Padiham is a small town and civil parish on the River Calder, about west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill, in Lancashire, England. It is part of the Borough of Burnley, but has its own town council with varied powers. Padiham was originally a rural village lying by the River Calder. It is still surrounded by attractive countryside on an arc running from the north-west to the north-east in the foothills of Pendle Hill. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 10,098,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics )〕 an increase from 8,998 in the 2001 census.〔(Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Burnley'' ) Retrieved 4 February 2010〕 ==History== No prehistoric or Roman sites have been found in the urban area and Padiham, a name of Anglo-Saxon origin, is not recorded in the Domesday Book.〔(Historic Town Assessment Report, Padiham, Lancashire County Council, May 2005, includes several old maps of the town and location of buildings – accessed 18 August 2011 )〕 The first recorded mention of the town, as ''Padyngham'', dates from 1294.〔(About Padiham Accessed 4 February 2010 )〕 For hundreds of years it was a market town where produce from Pendleside was bought and sold. The town expanded and was substantially redeveloped during the Industrial Revolution and the central area is now a conservation area. 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.〔〔(2001 census data ). Accessed 8 December 2007〕 This follows people moving to the south of England in search of work following the decline of the traditional cotton, coal and engineering manufacturing base during that period. The Queen, together with Prince Philip, first visited Burnley, Nelson and the old Mullard valve factory at Simonstone near Padiham on her post-Coronation tour of Lancashire in 1955.〔(British Pathé Newsreel 1995 Accessed 2014_02_01 )〕 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「Padiham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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