Complex sentence: Read is a village in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England about 2 miles east of Whalley, on the A671 which was originally a turnpike road from Portfield, near Whalley, to Padiham in the 1840s.
Split into simpler sentences: Read is a village in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England about 2 miles east of Whalley. It is on the A671 which was originally a turnpike road from Whalley to Padiham in the 1840s.