Pendleton is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, within the county of Lancashire, England.

[6] The brief details of the Blackburnshire Hundred in the Domesday survey, mention Pendleton with King Edward holding half a hide of land here.

[7][2] Wymondhouses (an old farm in the south of the parish) was purchased in 1667 by the Nonconformist preacher Thomas Jollie.

A book was written on this subject entitled The Pendle Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth, published 1849.

Doreen McGlashan, born Doreen Wilson, a Pendleton native, stated that as a child in the 1920s there was frequent talk of witches and witchcraft in the village, and that she and her siblings were kept indoors on certain Saturdays because of "witches Sabbaths" happening in the town on those days.