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Low Bowland Forest is now a civil parish in the Ribble Valley District of Lancashire, England, covering some 5500 acres of the Forest of Bowland. Before 1974, it formed part of Bowland Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Historically, Low Bowland Forest was in the ecclesiastical parish of Slaidburn in Staincliffe Wapentake. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 168. The parish includes the hamlets of Whitewell and Cow Ark (both re-directed here). From northwards clockwise, it borders the civil parishes of Newton-in Bowland, Bashall-Eaves, Aighton Bailey and Chaigley, Bowland-with-Leagram and High Bowland Forest. [edit] GovernanceThe civil parish of Low Bowland Forest was created from the township of Low Bowland Forest (in the ancient parish of Whalley) in 1866. In 1938, two geographically non-contiguous areas, called Harrop and Countess Flat (both re-directed here) were transferred to Grindleton and Slaidburn.
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