Barnoldswick (colloquially known as Barlick) is a town and civil parish within the West Craven area of the Pendle district of Lancashire, England just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is built in the shadow of Weets Hill, and Stock Beck, a tributary of the River Ribble runs through the town. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and nestling on the lower slopes of Weets Hill in the Pennines astride the natural watershed between the Ribble and Aire valleys, Barnoldswick is the highest town on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in-between Clitheroe in Lancashire and Skipton in North Yorkshire, and approximately 30 miles from the cities of Leeds, Manchester and Preston. Barnoldswick is the longest place name in the United Kingdom without repeating any letters.

Barnoldswick is another town steeped in history. Barnoldswick can trace its history back to the Vikings. Barnoldswick was known as Bernulfsuuic in the Doomsday Book. In 1147 a monastery was founded here by Cistercian monks from Fountains Abbey, but the locals didn't take too kindly them so they moved on to Kirkstall where they built an abbey. The monks did leave behind some trace though. About 10 years after their removal they built the church of St Mary-le-Gill about a mile from Barnoldswick center. Apparently they built it so far away because of their altercation with the locals. An old mill town that is now home to many companies; Rolls Royce and Silentnight (actually in Salterforth) being its most famous.