Sawley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England.

Historically, Sawley fell under the Earl of Northumberland's Percy fee rather than being part of the neighbouring Lordship of Bowland.

[5] Sawley was an extra-parochial area in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

This became a civil parish in 1858, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974.

[7] Along with Waddington, West Bradford and Grindleton, the parish forms the Waddington and West Bradford ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.