Salterforth is a village and civil parish

Civil parish

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 within the Borough of Pendle

Pendle

Pendle is a local government district and borough of Lancashire, England. It adjoins the Lancashire boroughs of Burnley and Ribble Valley, the North Yorkshire district of Craven and the West Yorkshire districts of Calderdale and the City of Bradford...

 in Lancashire

Lancashire

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, England

England

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. It lies on the B6383 road that connects Barnoldswick

Barnoldswick

Barnoldswick is a town and civil parish within the West Craven area of the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is built in the shadow of Weets Hill, and Stock Beck, a...

 to the A56 road

A56 road

The A56 is a road in England which extends between the city of Chester in Cheshire and the village of Broughton in North Yorkshire. The road contains a mixture of single and dual carriageway sections, and traverses environments as diverse as the dense urban sprawl of inner city Manchester and the...

 at Kelbrook

Kelbrook

Kelbrook is a village in the Borough of Pendle, in Lancashire, England. It lies on the A56 road between Colne and Earby. It has a population of 1,026....

. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Leeds and Liverpool Canal

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 cuts through the village and there are several narrowboat

Narrowboat

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 moorings at Salterforth. The canal footpath provides a picturesque walk to Barnoldswick or to Foulridge

Foulridge

Foulridge is a small village and civil parish in Pendle, Lancashire, close to the border with North Yorkshire in England. It is situated just beyond Colne, on the route from the M65 to Skipton, and is an important stopping point on summit pound of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, just before it...

 in the opposite direction.

Historically

Historic counties of England

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 a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire

West Riding of Yorkshire

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, Salterforth used to be within Skipton Rural District

Skipton Rural District

Skipton was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after Skipton, which constituted an urban district on its southern border....

 until 1974. Some of the local area is referred to as West Craven

West Craven

West Craven is an area in the east of Lancashire, England in the far northern part of the borough of Pendle. Historically the area has lain within the ancient county boundaries of Yorkshire and was administered as part of the Skipton Rural District of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.After...

 alluding to Salterforth's cultural links to the Craven

Craven

Craven is a local government district in North Yorkshire, England that came into being in 1974, centred on the market town of Skipton. In the changes to British local government of that year this district was formed as the merger of Skipton urban district, Settle Rural District and most of Skipton...

 area of North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

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.

Other local towns and villages are; Barnoldswick - 1 miles (1.6 km) north west, Kelbrook - 2 miles (3.2 km) east, Earby

Earby

Earby is a small town and civil parish within the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. It is north of Colne, from Skipton, and from Burnley. The parish had a population of 4,348 recorded in the 2001 census,...

 - 2 miles (3.2 km) north east, Thornton in Craven

Thornton in Craven

Thornton-in-Craven is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is approx from the border with Lancashire and north of Earby. Barnoldswick is nearby. The Pennine Way passes through the village, as does the A56 road...

 3 miles (4.8 km) north east, Foulridge - 2 miles (3.2 km) south and Colne

Colne

Colne is the second largest town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 20,118. It lies at the eastern end of the M65, 6 miles north-east of Burnley, with Nelson immediately adjacent, in the Aire Gap with two main roads leading into the Yorkshire...

3.5 miles (5.6 km) south.