Borough of Rossendale
Shown within Lancashire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	North West England
Admin. County:	Lancashire
Area: - Total	Ranked 218th 138.05 km²
Admin. HQ:	Rawtenstall
ONS code:	30UM
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 317th 65,818 477 / km²
Ethnicity:	96.2% White 3.1% S.Asian
Politics
Rossendale Borough Council http://www.rossendale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:	Conservative
MPs:	Greg Pope, Janet Anderson

Rossendale is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Rawtenstall . The borough consists of towns of the valley of the River Irwell, and the surrounding moorland of the South Pennines.

Other places in Rossendale include:

• Bacup
• Crawshawbooth
• Edenfield
• Facit
• Greave
• Haslingden
• Laund , Lumb
• Newchurch , Nun Hills
• Rawtenstall
• Rockliffe
• Shawforth , Stubbins
• Waterfoot , Whitworth