Saturday 12Th to Sunday 20Th August 61 Guided Walks in Some of Lancashire’S Most Beautiful Countryside, from the Easy to the Challenging
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FREE PROGRAMME ANNIVERSARY PENDLE WAY 1987 - 2017 Saturday 12th to Sunday 20th August 61 guided walks in some of Lancashire’s most beautiful countryside, from the easy to the challenging. ily Fri am en F d l s y e W d u a l l c k n s I Graphic Design by The Communication Team, Pendle Borough Council iJb 11760 5/2017. © Cover photograph by Bernard L’Estrange . Bewitching, key to symbols Dogs welcome Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. Dogs are boats and not allowed on walks not showing this symbol. Country pubs or cafés These walks will visit one Brontës… of our country pubs or a café for a short refreshment break during or after the Welcome to one of the UK’s walk. largest walking festivals! Lunch stop No need to bring your The annual Pendle Walking Festival sarnies! We will stop at a pub or café for a light meal has put the area firmly on the map. during or after the walk. It’s a fantastic place to walk and History walks These walks focus on the enjoy some of the most stunning history of the area. countryside views in the whole of Pushchair friendly Lancashire. These walks follow stile-free paths and are suitable for robust pushchairs. Packed lunch Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential Please follow the instructions with the listing for booking these walks. Three Peaks These walks go to the summit of Pendle, Boulsworth and/or Weets Hill - Pendle’s Three Peaks. Up and Active Walks Health walks organised by Pendle Leisure Trust. www.pendleleisuretrust. co.uk Family Friendly Walks The Pendle Way These walks follow part of The Pendle Way. Follow us on facebook © Photography by Steve Bradley, Mark Tattersall, Andy Ford, Sarah Lee, Bernard L’Estrange, Lee Johnson, Steve Garnett and Matt Garside. Follow us or Tweet us @VisitPendle Family Friendly What to bring on the walk Pendle Way: The Pendle Walking Please wear suitable footwear Stage One – Walk 5 Festival is in the school summer and clothing for outdoor Saturday 12th August holidays and we’ve a number walking. Pendle’s weather Cost £9 of family friendly walks to enjoy can be wet so please bring Stage Two – Walk 10 which are marked out by the waterproofs. It’s important Sunday 13th badger symbol in the guide. to remember to bring food Cost £9 and plenty of water. More Stage Three – Walk 25 The Festival Launch information on walking safely is Tuesday 15th August The festival will be launched available from www.ramblers. Cost £9 at Lakeside Café, Ball Grove org.uk under the advice Stage Four – Walk 32 Park, at 10am on Saturday 12th section. Wednesday 16th August August followed by a number Cost £9 of walks. It will be launched by Website & Social Media The Mayor of Pendle, Councillor The festival programme is Please book and pay for your David Whalley. available as a download at transport via www.eventbrite. ANNIVERSARY www.visitpendle.com co.uk PENDLE WAY Accommodation & Travel 1987 - 2017 A wide range of quality You can also keep up to date How to book onto accommodation is available in with walking festival news on bookable walks Pendle. Please call our visitor our Facebook page If you have downloaded this information centres for our programme then simply click on Tweet us your pictures and The UK’s largest free Another anniversary being fascinating true stories of the accommodation guide or visit the link for the walk which you opinions of the festival using marked by a number of Pendle Witches, who featured in www.visitpendle.com. want to book onto. If you are walking festival has been @VisitPendle going now for 14 years! walks is the birth of radical the country’s largest witchcraft using the printed programme mathematician Sir Jonas Moore trial over 400 years ago. Their Visitor Information Centres then visit www.eventbrite. It has put Pendle firmly Other Walking Festivals in Pendle Heritage Centre co.uk and type ‘Pendle Walking in Pendle 400 years ago. story is told on a number of the area on the map as a fantastic Affectionately known as walks, most notably on the 01282 677150 Festival’, or the name of your place to walk and enjoy ‘the Father of Time’, he was atmospheric Pendle Sculpture County Information Centre Garstang Walking Festival chosen walk, in the ‘search for some of the most stunning responsible, with, other Trail, which features twice in the 01282 698533 6th – 14th May 2017 events’ box. You should be able views in the north of influential people of his day, programme. www.visitwyre.co.uk/events to easily find and book onto England. for setting up the Greenwich We’ve plenty of walks that Information for joining one your chosen walk. All walks are Observatory which gave the will appeal to people of all ages of our walks South Pennines Walk & free apart from the Pendle Way. Something has been going world its time – Greenwich from short, easy walks to walks The festival programme has Ride Festival over twice as long though... the Mean Time. which are more active, and been put together to include 9th – 24th September 2017 Pendle Way, which celebrates Pendle is a unique area everything in between. walks to suit people of all www.walkandridefestival. its 30th anniversary this year. which makes walking here so We’ve walks that visit the abilities. We have graded each co.uk You can get a tantalising special. Literary and historical last Clarion House in the UK walk as follows: For other events in Lancashire, glimpse of some of the connections abound and and rambles which uncover Easy – An easy paced walk with you can check out breathtaking views along The gorgeous views open up around stories of murders and ghostly only gentle slopes (1to 4 miles www.visitlancashire.com. Pendle Way thanks to a new every corner. horsemen. ) short video on our website A number of our walks We also have a number Bookings for the Moderate – An easy paced visitpendle.com feature the paths around of walks which take you Pendle Way walk over varied terrain with A number of walks in this Wycoller, including the Brontë up Pendle’s three peaks - Each day on the Pendle Way some hilly sections (4 to 7 programme are marking The and Ferndean Ways. These Boulsworth Weets and the walk we provide transport to miles) Way’s special year by using follow in the footsteps of the classic climb up legendary take you back to your start great literary giants, the Brontë Pendle hill, which inspired the point. The cost for the transport small parts of its incredibly Hard - A slightly faster paced sisters. founder of the Quakers, George is listed below. Please book varied 45 mile route. And our walk with varied terrain and hills Our 200 year old Leeds and Fox in 1652. beforehand, sooner rather main challenge walk this year (7 to 10 miles) is... you’ve guessed... The Liverpool Canal is the longest We’ve such variety – take a than later, because spaces Pendle Way! in the country with a fascinating look through our programme Very Hard – A varied all day are limited. This will also give Complete the challenge and history and its most picturesque and pick your favourites! walk covering longer distances you a better chance to book we’ll reward your efforts with stretches here in Pendle. (10+ miles). accommodation if you need it. our now famous Certificates of Our churchyards, farms, All bookings are on a first come, Achievement! and byways still burn with the first served basis. 2 3 7. The Druids & the Hill of Slaughter 7 miles - Hard - 11.00am Meet at the Aisled Barn, Wycoller Country Park Grid Ref: SD933391 Join us for the festival launch on Saturday 12th Map Reference: B August at 10am at Lakeside Café, Ball Grove Park Post Code: BB8 8SY We climb Boulsworth Hill from the followed by a choice of three different walks. historic village of Wycoller and visit the Druids’ sacrificial slaughter stone. Saturday 3. Noyna & Knarrs 5. Pendle Way Stage 1 Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk Barrowford to Earby 12th August 2017 Leader: John Crow Tel. 07857 252621 1. A Walk Around Ball 9 miles - Hard - 10.30am Meet at Lakeside Cafe, Ball 13 miles - Very Hard - 10.00am Grove Park & Nature 8. Ghosts, Myths & Legends Grove Park, Colne Meet at Old Grammar School, Reserve Grid Ref: SD909403 School Lane, Earby (former lead Map Reference: R mining museum) Post Code: BB8 7HY Grid Ref: SD906469 3 miles - Easy - 6.00pm 2 miles - Easy - 10.30am This walk offers great variety and Map Reference: A Meet at the Aisled Barn, Wycoller Meet at Lakeside Cafe, Ball stunning views including Noyna Hill Post Code: BB18 6QF Country Park Grove Park, Colne and Knarrs Hill. We meet in Earby for a chartered Grid Ref: SD933391 Grid Ref: SD909403 Map Reference: B Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk bus to take us to our starting point Map Reference: R Post Code: BB8 8SY Leader: Tom Partridge at the Pendle Heritage Centre in Post Code: BB8 7HY An entertaining exploration of Tel. 07764 362592 Barrowford. Stage 1 of the Pendle On this walk around one of Colne’s Wycoller through its myths, legends Way takes us to the summit of Local Nature Reserves we will and ghost stories, some of which 4. Historic Higham & Jonas Weets Hill with its far-reaching be looking at wildlife and flowers inspired the Brontës. Moore Part 1 views and on to the scenic church and learning a little of the site’s Leader: John Crow of St Mary le Ghyll with its 16th industrial past.