OS Explorer Witches Walk: Day 1 - to Barley OL41 Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Tercet One Key to Facilities

SD 8620 3975 3.5 miles, 5.6 km Lanes, tracks, fields (can get muddy  Barrowford café in Pendle in parts), includes a number of stiles. SD 862 397 Heritage Centre car park 2 hours The trail passes through farmland so be aware of livestock and keep dogs Barley - The Cabin café and on a lead. information centre, village tearoom, The Pendle Inn and The Barley Mow (restaurant), N car park, toilets GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs)

1 SD 8620 3975 2 SD 8623 4013 3 SD 8579 4011 5 4 SD 8521 4021 6 8 7 5 SD 8458 4042 4 6 SD 8411 4038 3 2 7 SD 8324 4031 8 SD 8235 4031 1 © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved (100023320) (2015) reserved All rights Copyright. © Crown 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 1 Mile 0 Km 1 Km www.forestofbowland.com : Day 1 - Barrowford to Barley WalkWalk DescriptionDescription

Before you set off call into the Heritage 3 GPS: SD 8579 4011 You may wish to take a short diversion Cross over the bridge and turn right Centre grounds to find Tercet One. Go over the track and through gate onto the road past the former through a gap in the fence. Now follow ahead and cross a stile down to a Hall to see the bronze statue of Alice the riverside path, past Thorneyholme 1 GPS: SD 8620 3975 footbridge and over a stream. Go over Nutter, hanged for witchcraft in 1612. Cottage and continue for ¼ mile on the Start at the car park opposite the the bridge and with a fence on your Described at the time as ‘a rich woman’ riverside path. Go right over a bridge Pendle Heritage Centre in Barrowford right walk uphill to a stile at the top of she was thought to have lived at and reach the track to Whitehough (if leaving a vehicle, please leave a the field. Over the stile and turn right Roughlee Hall, but she most likely lived at Outdoor Education Centre. voluntary donation in the honesty box). up the surfaced track. After 50 yards, nearby Crow Trees. She was also alleged Leave the car park by the small gate in turn left off the track to cross a stile to have joined with Elizabeth Device and Note as you pass Thorney Holme. The the corner of first car park by the and soon after bear right to cross a others to kill one Henry Mitton of wife of Christopher Hargreives, of riverside. Through the gate and follow footbridge. Roughlee by witchcraft for having refused Thorniholme was claimed by James the riverside path to a bridge. Cross Keep ahead with a hedge to your to give Old Demdike a penny. (68-73) Device to have been at the gathering of the road with care and turn right. right, and continue until you reach a witches at on Good Friday Continue just a short way then turn farm building. 5 GPS: SD 8458 4042 1612. (43) sharp left down Rockville & Calder Go through the gate up the field and View to reach a pack horse bridge 4 GPS: SD 8521 4021 ahead through another gate and on to 7 GPS: SD 8324 4031 over . Over the bridge Pass the farm building on the left, over a fingerpost. Turn left, go over a stile Continue ahead to follow the and turn left, after another 50 yards two stiles and then through a metal and towards the static caravan park. bridleway alongside the river all the turn right at Brook Dell House onto an gate to the left. Continue uphill to the Over two more stiles and onto a lane. way to Barley village car park and enclosed path. left corner of the field, across a second Turn right and continue for 100 yards picnic area/café (approx. 1 mile) field to a stile in a wall. to a kissing gate on the left. 2 GPS: SD 8623 4013 now appears in front of you. Head 8 GPS: SD 8235 4031 Follow the path and ascend a wooded downhill and past two trees to a 6 GPS: SD 8411 4038 You have now reached Barley village area to reach a stile leading to open signpost. Turn left at the post and down Through the gate and across three fields which has two pubs and a couple fields. Over the stile and across the to the stepping stones (if the stream is (stiles and gates). Before the 4th field of cafes. field, then bearing left through the in flood there are paths and stream turn left, follow the field edge downhill hedge at the top. Keep straight across crossings northeast and southwest of and through a metal gate. Turn right on the field to a kissing gate. Through the the stepping stones). Go over the the track and through several gates to gate and continue in the same stepping stones and cross the stile reach a farm track. Turn left on the track direction to reach a second gate and then cross the road. Go straight ahead to reach a road. Turn right along the onto a metalled farm track. on the minor road to the metal field road, with river and white railings on gate ahead. your left until you reach a road bridge. www.forestofbowland.com