OS Explorer Witches Walk: Day 2 - Barley to Spring Wood - Map A OL41 Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Tercet Two Map A Walk Description 1 GPS: SD 8235 4031 12.5 miles, 20.1 km, Lanes, tracks, fields (can get muddy Ogden Valley SD 8116 3985 SD 8235 4031 7 hours in parts), includes a number of stiles. Start at Barley car park and picnic The trail passes through farmland so area. Pass between the toilets and be aware of livestock and keep dogs café and cross the green to pick up on a lead. the path that heads north exiting out Key to Facilities onto Barley Lane. Turn right and follow the lane till you reach the old N 2 Barley The Cabin café and chapel. Turn left and follow the information centre, village 1 footpath opposite the chapel. tearoom, The Pendle Inn and The Barley Mow (restaurant), 2 GPS: car park, toilets SD 8212 4053 3 Follow this enclosed path then over a footbridge to enter a large field. Head Witches Galore shop immediately left over this field, with Fence The Fence Gate Inn 4 the stream on your left to the top far corner to a gateway. Through the GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs) gateway and head gently uphill with 5 the fence line on your left, through 1 SD 8235 4031 several gates and stiles, for roughly 2 SD 8212 4053 ¼ mile, to reach a farm outbuilding. 3 SD 8100 3986 Mancknowls Ing Farm, now derelict (private 4 SD 8158 3951 property & structurally dangerous, keep out!) has been suggested by John Clayton 5 SD 8199 3914 as the site of . His Pendle Witch Fourth Centenary Handbook points 6 SD 8200 3800 out some suggestive older features in 6 the building, and connections between its owner and the nearby Bulcock and Robinson families. It is also in approximately the right place, close to the main cluster of alleged witchcraft incidents. Used in the filming of BBC’s ‘Pendle Witch Child’ documentary, ‘Manck Ing’ (Malkin?) 7 is certainly an atmospheric stand-in for the

© Crown Copyright. All rights reserved (100023320) (2014) © Copyright. Crown lonely and run-down farmstead where 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 1 Mile Demdike and her family would have lived. 0 Km 1 Km : Day 2 - Barley to Spring Wood - Map A Map A Walk Description Continued

Now comes an unexpected bit. Turn back at junction bear right on Well Head Road, passing Jane Bulcock, wife of Christopher Bulcock of Moss 6 GPS: SD 8200 3800 about 45o to the route you were following, to the old disused (Faughs) quarry on the right. End, and her son John were sentenced to death Turn right on the track for 25 yards to a metal pick up the path nearer the reservoir. Then, for witchcraft on the strength of the claim that kissing gate. Through the gate and diagonally when you get one field nearer the reservoir, Newchurch-in-Pendle church (new in 1540) is at they had been at the Malkin Tower meeting on left across the field to a stile then continue in turn back to the track, keeping the wall the heart of the Pendle witch story. Young James Good Friday, 1612 and talked of having the same direction to a footbridge. Over the boundary on your left, until you reach a Device claimed that old Chattox had picked up bewitched Jennet Deane of Yorkshire ‘beside her bridge and cross the field towards Higher gateway and the track to Ogden Hill. Turn left human teeth in the churchyard for use in magic, reason’. They denied everything to the end and Fence Gate and exit onto the road by a gate before the gateway, ignoring the path and that old Demdike, his grandmother, had went to the gallows ‘crying out in very violent & next to a large metal gate. Turn right on the continuing ahead, to follow the wall that runs ordered him to bring home some communion outrageous manner’. road to a footpath sign next to a stone stile. south and on your right. Go over two fields to bread intact in his mouth at Easter 1611. The Over the stile and with the ménage on the left, reach a surfaced track. only church for miles around at the time, its last Go over a stile and pass the back of the farm head down the field to a stile in the fence and covertly Catholic minister had been removed only and over another stile soon after. Continue turn immediately right to a gate in the fence. 3 GPS: SD 8100 3986 some thirty years before, which may account for ahead to a kissing gate, then onto a track. Turn Through the gate and across the stream, Cross this track, go over the ladder stile ahead the survival of many old-style religious beliefs in left on the track to Tinedale Farm. climbing the bank to a field. Turn left over the into the wooded area. Steeply down through the area into the time of the witches. In August stile and follow the boundary downhill with the the trees to find a stile at the left end of the 2012 the church held a service of commendation Bull Hole: old Demdike was said by her stream/hedge on left to enter an enclosed path fence running along the bottom of woodland. to apologise to the parishioners of Newchurch granddaughter Alison Device to have been into the village of Fence. Cross the stile and turn left and find a path who had died in the witchcraft trials of 1612 and summoned by John Nutter of Bullhole to cure a leading to a footpath over the stream on the commend their souls to God. sick cow, which had afterwards mysteriously died. right. Look out for Tercet Two. Over the On another occasion John Nutter of Bullhole footbridge and up the steps ahead into the Faughs Quarry may well have been the ‘stonepit kicked over a dish of milk begged from him by wood. Continue steeply uphill into the trees at Gouldshey’ where old Demdike said she had Chattox’s daughter Elizabeth when he saw until the path leaves the plantation onto a met ‘coming homeward from begging’ with ‘a Chattox trying to ‘charm the same with two sticks muddy track. Turn right on the track to a stile spirit or devil in the shape of a boy, the one half across’; soon afterwards, another of his cows at the forest corner. Take a look behind for of his coat black, and the other brown’ who gave sickened and died. lovely views over to and Black his name as Tibb and persuaded her to promise Moss Reservoir. him her soul. A carving in the rock next to the Cross the road and go up the steep bank path further into the quarry recalls the event. opposite and continue until you have crossed a 4 GPS: SD 8158 3951 track and you reach a road. Don’t go onto the Over the stile and turn left with fence on your 5 GPS: SD 8199 3914 road but head right at the top of the field left. Follow this fence to a gate in a stone wall, Opposite Faughs Quarry go through a metal passing Rigg of . through the gate and now with wall on left to gate on your left and follow the track down another stile when wall ends. Do not go past Faughs Farm. Continue down the track Looking back from Tinedale Farm, across the through the gate but bear right across open and when you reach a metal gate, take the stile solitary farmsteads and marshy land towards ground to reach a lane downhill into on the right and continue ahead towards Moss Newchurch village and , the landscape Newchurch-in-Pendle. Take the road downhill End Farm. has changed remarkably little since 1612. passing the church on the left and at the next www.forestofbowland.com OS Explorer Lancashire Witches Walk: Day 2 - Barley to Spring Wood - Map B OL41 Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Key to Facilities SD 8235 4031 12.5 miles, 20.1 km, Lanes, tracks, fields (can get muddy in parts), includes a number of stiles. The Newchurch in Pendle 7 hours trail passes through farmland so be aware of livestock and keep dogs on a lead. Witches Galore shop Fence The Fence Gate Inn Higham The Four Alls Inn, Roaming Roosters farm shop/café/bistro N GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs)

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7 GPS: SD 8244 3710 8 GPS: SD 8138 3642 9 GPS: SD 8087 3652 11 GPS: SD 7892 3601 Turn right on the minor road and Over a ladder stile and across the field Pass the 4 Alls Inn on your left and take Cross the road and take the footpath then left to the A6068 road crossing passing to the left of the fenced in farm a right turn up Road, taking the straight ahead to Priddy Bank Farm and with care. buildings to reach a lane via a gate. first left onto Croft Lane. Follow the through the gate out of the yard. Through the gate and over the stile into footpath between the houses and Straight across the field and through On the left of the A6068, between the next field. Now diagonally right across straight across the playing field to exit the woodland and out across a field to Fence and White Lee, is Ashlar House, the field towards the church at Higham. onto a housing estate. Follow the road reach a track. Do not go left down the in 1612 the home of James Wilsey Exit the field onto the A6068 road. round to your right and take a right track-instead follow the path straight (Walmsley), where on 2 April 1612 down the footpath just before reaching ahead, over a stile, across a field to a Roger Nowell interviewed Elizabeth Old Chattox and her family came from an electricity substation. Cross the stone stile in the wall and ahead to a Sowthernes and Anne Whittle West Close, a small fold just south of footbridge and continue to the stile gate out onto the road. Turn left for a (Demdike and Chattox). Shortly Higham. Young Robert Nutter of ahead. Head diagonally right up the next few yards and then right through a afterwards they were sent to Lancaster Higham was Chattox’s earliest victim, field until you reach a point where metal kissing gate into a wooded area Castle to await trial, along with Anne blaming her for his death after a fierce another footpath crosses yours, take a and continue ahead. Cross the field, Redferne and Alizon Device. row when he had threatened to have left here, heading south toward, but not over a stile and then diagonally left her family evicted from their home to, the A6068, crossing the stream at the across the next field to a gate, where Turn right towards Higham on the after Chattox had rebuffed his attempt bottom. Through the gate in the south you emerge onto a road opposite pavement passing Ashlar House (which to bed her daughter. Chattox was also corner of that field continue on the Laws Farm. is private, please don’t disturb) to reach accused of having bewitched some same line turning right to pick up a path Lower White Lee. Turn left into the drink belonging to John Moore of across a footbridge, which bears off to 12 GPS: SD 7797 3501 yard past the main house and find a Higham, gentleman, and of killing one the right behind Old Jeremy’s Farm. Turn left down the road and take the marked footpath into a barn. Through of his children by sticking pins in a clay first footpath on your right, up the rise, the barn onto an enclosed track exit image of it. To cap it all, James Device 10 GPS: SD 7997 3625 over a stile and keep onward, behind the into a field and follow the field edge to was charged with killing Blaize After the farmhouse go left over a stile, houses, until you reach a concrete stile the next stile. Through this and over Hargreaves of Higham by the aid of his and along a track. Continue ahead all out onto the lane. Turn left and follow the track bearing left, keeping trees to spirit dog Dandy. the way to Holly Hill. Over a stile and this lane for approximately ½ mile. your right, across the open ground, then continue, climbing steadily to cross the stream and up the bank on Turn left on the road for 50 yards, pass begin with, and then contouring around the far side. Continue with the hedge the 50 mph sign and cross the road the field to a stile. Over the stile, then on the right then bearing left to pass with care. Take the second enclosed ahead to join the track to Foulds behind the barn at Heys. footpath on your right. Follow the path House, through the farm and down the into Higham. track to reach a road. www.forestofbowland.com OS Explorer Lancashire Witches Walk: Day 2 - Barley to Spring Wood - Map C OL41 Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Tercet Three Key to Facilities

SD 8235 4031 12.5 miles, 20.1 km, Lanes, tracks, fields (can get muddy Spring Wood SD 7411 3606 Spring Wood picnic site 7 hours in parts), includes a number of stiles. Car park and Information centre The trail passes through farmland so be aware of livestock and keep dogs on a lead. GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs) N 13 SD 7629 3492 14 SD 7554 3476 15 SD 7521 3543 16 SD 7467 3566 17 17 SD 7462 3630 18 SD 7409 3606 18 11

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13 GPS: SD 7629 3492 14 GPS: SD 7554 3476 17 GPS: SD 7462 3630 Look out for a track/footpath Follow this track around the bottom Over this stile and turn a sharp left and continuing straight ahead as the lane edge of Coppy Plantation, across the walk downhill towards Spring Wood bends to the right. Follow this track/ park, till you reach the road through a picnic site. After you have crossed over footpath around the back of Read Hall. lovely ornate metal gate near Read Old a footbridge turn right. TAKE CARE As you emerge from the wood Bridge. Turn left and cross Read Old AS YOU ARE NOW ON A GOLF (Coppy plantation) take the footpath Bridge and up the road looking for a COURSE. Continue downhill keeping along a track to the right. track on the left. the woodland and wall on your right down to the picnic site entrance. Read Hall is nearby. The present-day 15 GPS: SD 7521 3543 Parking and toilets here plus a mobile building is Victorian, replacing the earlier Take this track/footpath towards catering van. Tercet Three is within the hall inhabited by Roger Nowell, the Easterly Farm, looking out for a stile on car park at Spring Wood (SD 7409 investigating magistrate who led the your right. Over this stile and up 3606). prosecution of the . The across 4 fields to Portfield. children of his neighbours, the Starkies of 18 GPS: SD 7409 3606 Huntroyd, had suffered (or perhaps 16 GPS: SD 7467 3560 staged) a celebrated case of demonic Onto the road and turn right and possession in 1597. The private box pews follow this road to the corner junction. of both families can be seen side by side Continue ahead at this junction up the in Whalley parish church, a few miles lane maker ‘cul de sac’. Immediately away, near the ruins of the abbey whose after the golf course entrance take the dissolution in the 1530s provided the footpath gate on your left and land which they now owned. diagonally uphill till you reach a stile in a fence.

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