Bowland Deanery
Our Mission
"to prepare God's people for works of service so that the body of Christ may...become mature, attaining to the world measure of the fullness of Christ...as each part does its work" Eph 4:12
Outline of our Deanery
Bowland Deanery covers some 250 square miles with a population of 17,002 people according to the 2001 census.
Our Deanery stretches in the north beyond the slopes of Pen-y-ghent in the Upper Ribble Valley, across Malhamdale and down to Gargrave, then it travels westwards towards Gisburn and the Lower Ribble Valley in the shadow of Pendle Hill, skirting north of Clitheroe, and onwards to Hurst Green. It then moves northwards towards Dunsop Bridge at the begining of the Trough of Bowland before turning eastwards north of Settle again back towards Pen-y-ghent.
No one could doubt that ours is a rural Deanery of hills and fells, and the landscape has been shaped by the Rivers Ribble, Aire and Hodder and their tributary streams. Settle as a market town is our largest settlement, but we have many villages and hamlets scattered through our Deanery.
Our Deanery is made up of 19 parishes containing twenty-three worshipping communities seeking to serve and minister to the people here.
How to find us
The A65 links Gargrave to Settle, whilst westward the A59 is, for much of its way, our southern boundary towards Clitheroe and beyond to the M6.
