Pendle Water facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Pendle Water
Pendle Water, in Barrowford (July 2007)
Country	England
Physical characteristics
Main source	Pendle Hill
River mouth	River Calder (Near Burnley)

Pendle Water is a minor river in Lancashire. Rising on Pendle Hill, Pendle Water cuts a deep valley between Barley Moor and Spence Hill, where it feeds into the reservoirs of Upper and Lower Ogden.

Upon exiting the lower reservoir Pendle Water flows east through the villages of Barley and Roughlee before collecting Blacko Water, which drains the Admergill valley, at Water Meetings near Wheathead, one mile west of the village of Blacko. The river then flows south, through Higherford and Barrowford, where it is joined by Colne Water. It collects Walverden Water as it passes the site of Nelson and Colne College.

From this point onwards, the river flows west past the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, towards its confluence with the River Calder in Reedley Hallows, which is northwest of Burnley. Pendle Water once supplied water to the Burnley Water Treatment Works, which is situated on Wood End Lane.

Lomeshaye Marsh

At Lomeshaye, the construction of the industrial estate and the two sewage treatment works that preceded it, has seen the river’s course straightened, with part of the old route still supplied with water by Edge End Brook. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the site has been regenerated into a wetland, one of only a few in the catchment of Pendle Water. Numerous local organisations, including the Lomeshaye Marsh Preservation Group, worked in conjunction with the Environment Agency to restore the site.

It has been declared a Local nature reserve and a County Biological Heritage Site, in recognition of its ecological value. The local special school, Pendle Community College, was joint winner of the 2009 Ecover Ethical Kids Award for their involvement with the project.

Main Tributaries

The weir at Roughlee. (November 2007)

The old packhorse bridge at Higherford. (September 2017)

• Walverden Water
  • Catlow Brook
• Colne Water
  • Wanless Water
  • Trawden Brook
  • Wycoller Beck
  • River Laneshaw
• Blacko Water
  • Admergill Water
• White Hough Water
• Barley Water
• Ogden Clough