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‘Champion’ means ‘common enclosure’. pass the farm at Rain Gill and continue Section 3 Follow the path until it meets the road. west/south-west until you arrive at Hammerton Mere Hammerton Hall. 7 Turn right and walk down the road as far Bolton-by-Bowland to as Threap Green Farm. ‘Threap’ is 10 Following the path onwards, you pass another old English word meaning the old footbridge on your right. Cross 9 ‘argument’ or ‘dispute’. Turn left up the the ford and carry on down to 1 Start at the Church of St Peter and St N Paul at Bolton-by-Bowland. With your Hammerton Hall farm track and take the footpath that Holmehead Bridge. This is believed to back to the church, turn right and follow leads north-east across the first field, Higher then head north, keeping to the left hand the road, passing the remains of a Shays 6478 Stoney side of the fields. Continue until Ling Hill cross and the village stocks. B Bank 8 farm. 2 Cross Skirden Bridge and continue until 10 you reach the Copy Nook Hotel. Take 8 At Ling Hill, take the footpath due west/ Ling Hill

the road on your right, signposted to Holmehead Bridge south-west across the first field, cross

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d Outdoor Leisure Map head north, following the path passing road on the left. 11 o H no. 41. 7 r Fells Farm. After about 500 metres, take e 3 Cross the river near the bridge and iv the footpath to the south-west, towards R Threap Green telephone kiosk and follow the footpath Slaidburn ‘Shays’, which means ‘old stock track’. B6 west and uphill, passing Fat Hill Farm on 478 As you meet the road, turn right and your left and Priest Biggins Farm on walk up the road to the cross roads, your right. Keep on the path, passing where there is a telephone box. Turn left White Stones on your left and then and walk to Higher Stoney Bank - note downhill past the 17th century Cottams the unusual curved wall. Farm. track past the farm and 9 Take the footpath on your right and due north. 6 4 At the road, turn right and walk for about continue north-west to Brook House 300 metres. Take the footpath on your 6 Cross the road at Higher Green at Hammerton Mere. Take the left heading north-west to Harrop Gate Cross and take the path Higher Cross farm track heading west/south-west, Farm. Take the path that leads through directly opposite, which this farm in a south-westerly direction takes you due north towards Harrop Methodist Church, a towards Black Moss Farm. Harrop Lodge Cross and Stocks in Bolton-by-Bowland. very early example of its type. Keep to the right hand side 5 Continue to the village of Harrop Fold, a of the fields. Follow the former vaccary. From the centre of path until you pass a have been built before Slaidburn and small barn on your left; to was the original access into the village Harrop Fold, take the path that heads Bolton-by-Bowland north until you reach Cockleth House. your right you should be until the present ‘New Bridge’ was built in 5 Cross the next field in a north/north able to see the pyramid- Harrop Gate Cross and Stocks the 15th century. shaped stone that marks the Holden easterly direction, towards the sheep Harrop Methodist 11 Just past Holmehead Bridge is the farm Ordnance Survey 2 1 pens at the top right hand corner of the Church 3 track called the ‘Skaithe’. This was a triangulation point. Turn right Church of St. Peter field. Cross the lane and head north- 4 10th century horse racing track and is and follow the footpath past Harrop Fold and St. Paul west to Harrop Lodge, which is situated Cottams Farm now an ancient road. Leave the track the stone, heading on the edge of the . and follow the footpath along the right Sir Ralph Pudsay and his wife, approximately north-east The stile between the buildings and the commemorated in St Peter and Paul’s hand side of the field, then across the towards Greenwoods Farm at fence marks the footpath; this takes you Church. field towards the new bridge. Walk up Champion. The name around the back of the farm. Follow the 0 Kilometres 1 2 3 the street to the War Memorial.

0 Miles 1 2 1 Sights of Interest Section 3 17 km (10 / 2 miles) Church of St Peter and St Paul Hammerton Hall There was a church in Bolton-by- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Bolton-by-Bowland The Hall, commissioned in the mid-15th Bolton-by-Bowland Bowland as early as 1190, probably on century, was the residence of the this site. The earliest parts of the Hammertons. They were a wealthy present church are the 13th century family and it was said they could ride all to lancet window, priest’s doorway and the the way from Bowland to York on their stones that have been re-used in the own land. This changed in 1536, when Slaidburn main south doorway. The Pudsays were Sir Stephen Hammerton sided with the benefactors of the church for centuries; rebels in the ‘Pilgrimage of Grace’. He you can see the family arms on the was hanged and beheaded for his church font as well as the tomb of Sir ‘crime’ in 1537. This was a relatively Ralph Pudsay in the 16th century lenient punishment due to his high Pudsay chapel. The 15th century tower status; others were hanged, drawn and may have been inspired by Henry VI, quartered. His widow and son died who was sheltering with the Pudsays at shortly afterwards and his property in the time it was designed. Guidebooks Bowland passed to the King. and leaflets are available in the church, The house has been rebuilt since Sir which is well worth a visit. Stephen lived here and much of the Cross and stocks present building dates from the late 17th century. Note the typical ‘ogee’ mullion Stocks were used in medieval times as windows in the gables which were a a flexible punishment for a variety of common feature of this time. crimes. The prisoner’s legs and ankles were locked into the stocks and local people could hurl missiles as they saw fit. This must have been a frightening experience for the victim. The practice eventually died out in the 19th century. Market crosses were often established so monks from nearby monasteries could preach to farmers on market days. They were also a place where the farmers could pay any debts owed to the monastery. The cross here may be connected to Sawley Abbey. Harrop Methodist church Hammerton Hall John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, often preached in the North during the Leaving the beautiful church of St Peter and St Paul in 1700s. Early Methodist meetings were A circular walk is available, beginning Bolton-by-Bowland, we pass through peaceful moorland held in houses, and meetings in Harrop and ending at Bolton-by-Bowland. and the home of a 16th century rebel, to the picturesque Fold were probably held at a farmhouse For more information ring the village of Slaidburn. called Baygate. The present Methodist Tourist Information Centre chapel at Harrop Fold dates from 1819. on 01200 425566 4 At the end of the fourth field, climb over and stile, then follow upstream on the another stile and cross the field right hand side for a short distance Section 4 diagonally heading north/north-west. Go before heading south-west to Back of through the gate and cross the field Hill Barn. Walk behind the barn and keeping to the left-hand side. Cross the continue uphill along the farm track, Slaidburn to stile and continue to the north/north- then downhill to Beatrix. Here there eastern corner of the field. Cross the used to be an old smithy, a linen stile and head north/north-west past the weaving shed and a public house. 1 The name ‘Slaidburn’ means ‘stream by trees to the bottom of the field, then the sheep pasture’. Start from the War follow the stone wall around to the right. Memorial and take the road heading There is a stile in the middle of this wall. south-west towards Newton. On your Cross this stile and head west/south- left, you will pass the Slaidburn Heritage west, passing the copse around the Centre. Entrance to the Centre is free small reservoir. The formations in the and a village trail is available. From the land marked ancient field boundaries. Centre, continue along the road, passing Slaidburn Brennand’s Endowed School and the Brennand’s Endowed School, Slaidburn. St. Andrew’s Church and Church of Saint Andrew on your left. 1 Note the ‘Lynchet’ formation on the fields 0 Kilometres 1 2 3 Brennand’s Pain Hill School above Slaidburn. 0 Miles 1 2 2 About 500 metres past the church, the road heads uphill. At this point there are Bull Lane (track) 4 a set of gates on your left hand side, To be used R Back of Hill 5 i with O.S. pass through these and follow the stream v Beatrix

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r 6 Rough Syke Barn 2 Outdoor Dunnow Hall r on your left. Leave the stream and walk D N e u d Leisure n od around the woodland at the foot of the s H Map no. 41.

o r p e hill, passing Dunnow Hall on your right. iv Continue walking south-west alongside R the woodland, passing through a kissing gate and stile at the foot of Great 5 Cross three fields and Newton 3 Beatrix was, in fact, a Dunnow. Looking along the river, you 7 over three stiles, then very prosperous can see that it has been canalised, or head due west towards settlement because it made straight. This was done to provide the road at Back Lane. As is situated on the old employment for out-of- work weavers you cross this field, you can Slaidburn to Lancaster during the cotton famine in the mid-19th Dunsop Bridge see the markings of the Road. Go through the century. Roman road that passed farm buildings. At the end through here. At the road, turn of the buildings, turn right and Where the woodland ends, carry on 3 right, then immediately left and onto the walk south-west across the field, south-west across a couple of fields until footpath. Cross the field, heading west, using the poles as a guide. you see farm buildings on your right-hand footpath cross the stile, head west again to the Cross the stile and go down to the River side. Pass through the gate and carry on on the right, corner of the next field and cross the 7 Dunsop. Take the bridleway to the left through the farm buildings until you meet signposted to Pain Hill, which leads up next stile onto the Bull Lane track. the road at Newton. The village has the hill towards the house. To avoid and follow it down to Dunsop Bridge. many fine 17th century houses and ‘The nuisance to the owners, please walk 6 Turn left along the track and follow it Dunsop Bridge was built in the 19th Parkers Arms’ pub is a late Georgian past the left-hand side of the house, along. Before the gate, follow the wall century and is the nearest village to the house with a Venetian window. At the then turn right and walk around the back around to the right then cross the stile Centre of the British Isles. When the road, turn left and continue until you see of the house to cross the stile. Continue and follow the footpath downhill past bridleway meets the road, turn left and a phone box on the right. Take the along the footpath, heading north. Rough Syke Barn. Cross the stream walk to the car park. Sights of Interest Section 4 10 km (6 miles) Slaidburn Heritage Centre Hammerton, wife of Sir Stephen who was executed for his part in the Pilgrimage of The two storeyed building dates from the Slaidburn Grace. 17th century and was originally a farmhouse, probably incorporating part of Dunnow Hall the house to the right. It has been altered to Dunnow Hall was built in the 19th century and extended many times, with the three by Leonard Wilkinson, a solicitor in storeyed portion on the left the last to be , who owned land in Slaidburn. Dunsop Bridge added in the late 19th century. At this Through an alliance by marriage of the time, part of the original farmhouse was Wilkinsons and the King family of used as a stable for the horse of the local Whiteholme, the name of the Squires doctor - the stalls have been retained as became King-Wilkinson. The Slaidburn part of the exhibitions. Estate is still owned by the King-Wilkinson Brennand’s Endowed School family. The school was founded in 1717 to Beatrix educate young boys of the Parish, using Beatrix was originally spelt ‘Battrix’ and is money left in the will of John Brennand. It derived from the Norse words meaning was run by a priest and a deacon from the ‘Bothvar’s cattle farm’. Other nearby church, with a small charge levied Scandinavian placenames in the valley for certain subjects. The school is still in include Brungilmore, Battersby, and use for juniors and infants, with new Smelfthwaite. They indicate that the area classrooms added to the rear of the was widely settled by Norse people who original building. came from Ireland in the 10th century and St Andrew’s Parish Church moved inland along the Ribble and Hodder valleys. St Andrew’s stands on an ancient religious site, with evidence of Christian worship here since at least the 10th century. The A circular walk is available, beginning and tower of the present church dates from ending at Slaidburn. For more information about 1150, but the rest of the building was ring the Clitheroe Tourist Information Centre badly damaged by Scots raiders in the on 01200 425566. early 1300s and most of the church was rebuilt around 1450. St After following the to Newton, we cross a Andrew’s Roman road on our route to the heart of the British Isles. Church is the resting St. Andrew’s place of Parish Church. Lady Section 5 5 km (3 miles) Section 5 Dunsop Bridge to Dunsop Bridge to 1 From the car park, follow the road due east for a short distance, until you see a set of gates on your right. Go Whitewell through these and walk up the drive towards Thorneyholme Hall. ‘Thorneyholm’ means ‘land by the Dunsop Bridge river’ and Thorneyholme was a 1 Thorneyholme ‘vaccary’ or cow farm. Cross the Hall bridge, there is a small metal gate on the right hand side. Go through this gate and Langden follow the line Bridge of the River Hodder, N heading r south/south- dde iver Ho west. R 2 As the river bends Footbridge over the River Hodder. towards the aqueduct, head south/south-west 2 Burholme Hodder To be used across the field, then south/south-east with O.S. Bank across the next, heading for the Outdoor buildings at Burholme. Here the path Leisure Burholme Map no. 41. splits; to the left is the old route to Bridge Newton before today’s road was built (we will not be taking this route). A circular walk Cross the footbridge that leads to the is available, beginning and buildings and walk through them. ending at Follow the track south-west to Higher Whitewell Dunsop Burholme Bridge. 3 Bridge. For more Walk southwards along the road. On 3 information From the centre of the British Isles, we pass a former the right hand side there is a stile ring the vaccary and follow the winding banks of the River leading to a discretionary footpath Clitheroe Hodder to Whitewell. which allows you to enjoy this route Tourist from the safety of a neighbouring field. Whitewell Information Follow this along until it takes you Centre on back onto the road and continue to the 01200 425566.

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