Rossendale

Borough of Rossendale
Rossendale Shown within Lancashire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	North West England
Admin. County:	Lancashire
Area: - Total	Ranked 218th 138.05 km²
Admin. HQ:	Rawtenstall
ONS code:	30UM
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	96.2% White 3.1% S.Asian
Politics
Arms of Rossendale Borough Council Rossendale Borough Council http://www.rossendale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:
MPs:	Janet Anderson, Greg Pope

Rossendale is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Rawtenstall. The borough consists of towns in the Rossendale Valley of the River Irwell, and the surrounding moorland of the South Pennines.

Other places in Rossendale include:
*Bacup
*Crawshawbooth
*Deeply Vale
*Edenfield
*Greave
*Haslingden
*Helmshore
*Laund,
*Lumb
*Newchurch,
*Nun Hills
*Ramsbottom (part of),
*Rawtenstall
*Rockliffe
*Shawforth,
*Stubbins
*Waterfoot,
*Whitworth

The district was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, from the boroughs of Bacup, Haslingden, Rawtenstall, part of Ramsbottom urban district and Whitworth urban district.

Useful Link: Rossendale Online - http://www.rossendaleonline.co.uk

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