Saturday 10Th to Sunday 18Th August 57 Guided Walks in Some of Lancashire’S Most Beautiful Countryside, from the Easy to the Challenging
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Saturday 10th to Sunday 18th August 57 guided walks in some of Lancashire’s most beautiful countryside, from the easy to the challenging. Walking Festival A5 booklet 2019 2 09/05/2019 16:18 Pendle Walking Festival 2019 © Photography by Alastair Lee, Lee Johnson, Steve Bradley and Neil McGowan. Packhorse bridge and Wycoller Hall Walking Festival A5 booklet 2019 3 09/05/2019 16:19 Key to symbols Packed lunch Please bring a packed lunch. Country Pub We will visit one of our country pubs for a refreshment break during the walk. Cafe We will stop at a cafe for light refreshments during the walk. Family Friendly Walks These walks will include games, stories or “treasure” hunts to help children engage with the natural world and local history. Dogs welcome Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. Dogs are not allowed on walks not showing this symbol. Booking essential Booking on these walks via www. visitpendle.com is essential. See further information on page 3. Up and Active Walks These walks are included in a programme of walks which take place throughout the year. There is no need to book if you are a regular Up and Active walker. To find out more about Up and Active Walks in Pendle please visit www. upandactive.co.uk Welcome to one of the UK’s largest walking festivals! The annual Pendle Walking Festival has put the area firmly on the map. It’s a fantastic place to walk and enjoy some Follow us on facebook of the most stunning countryside views in the Follow us or Tweet us @VisitPendle north of England. Walking Festival A5 booklet 2019 4 09/05/2019 16:19 Ogden Clough leading to Pendle Hill In this year’s festival we you go! As we also the feature Hill where George Fox had his have 57 varied walks to one of our newer walks, the five vision in 1652. choose from and expert mile East Colne Way. local guides eager to A number of our walks Alongside our more challenging introduce our area’s radical share them with you. walks, there are plenty of easy thinkers, including the Sabden family strolls for those who Chartists and Jonas Moore. This year we are launching prefer them. Why not make your Affectionately known as the the event at the Pendle own mini-challenge and go on Father of Time,17th century Heritage Centre in Barrowford. all the walks throughout the mathematician Sir Jonas Formerly the family home of event to Pendle’s five Nature Moore, played a pivotal role the Bannister family, amongst Reserves? They are only a in establishing the Royal whose sons was the famous couple of miles each. Observatory at Greenwich and four minute miler Sir Roger Greenwich Mean Time. Bannister. It is also the start and A number of our walks feature end point of the Pendle Way. one of Lancashire’s most iconic From radical thinkers to Why not challenge yourself on natural landmarks, Pendle radical writers, a number of this 45 mile walk around the Hill. The hill has inspired our walks feature the paths district from Monday to Friday... many, including George Fox, around Wycoller, including the we even give you Wednesday the founder of the Quaker Brontë and Ferndean Ways. off for a break! movement. Its importance has These follow in the footsteps of been recognised by a National the literary giants, the Brontë Another of our challenge walks Lottery Heritage funded project sisters, and take in the waterfall is on the edge of the Yorkshire to maintain and enhance it. of Lumb Spout and intriguing Dales. The less well known 26 Part of that project will bring stories, such as Foster mile West Craven Way follows out the special character of the Cunliffe’s dramatic leap across the beautiful contours of this area’s history of radical thinkers, giant boulders there. Another ancient landscape, with plenty through the creation of a Pendle walk covers Wycoller’s famous of historic finds along the way, Radicals Trail and a Quaker eight bridges, including an including an old Roman road. walk from Pendle to Downham ancient bridge dating back to We might as well say A-Way including the summit of Pendle the Iron Age. 2 Walking Festival A5 booklet 2019 5 09/05/2019 16:19 Radical thinking also brought Easy lease leave sufficient tie to the countryside nearer to the gentle slopes and no stiles walk a little to the start of each common man, as the setting (1–4 miles) walk if reuired. up of the Clarion Houses tried Moderate to bring fresh air and recreation gentle slopes and some stiles How to book on bookable to people working long hours (1–6 miles) walks in the Lancashire mills. One Hard Please book in advance so of our routes takes in the only some difficult terrain and hilly that we can place a limit on the remaining Clarion House in the sections (1–9 miles) numbers attending each walk country. Very Hard and avoid over-large groups longer walks with varied terrain on popular walks. This helps Less radical than you might (10+ miles) to improve the safety and imagine, but certainly enjoyment of everyone taking striking a dischord amongst What to bring on the walk art ou can find the recise establishent figures, were the Please wear suitable footwear link to each bookable walk at Pendle Witches. This group and clothing for outdoor www.visitpendle.com/walks. of mainly local women were walking. Pendle’s weather Simply click on the link for the involved in the country’s largest can be wet so please bring walk which you want to book witchcraft trial over 4 years waterproofs. It’s important onto. All walks are free apart ago in 1612. Their grim true to remember to bring food from those where we provide story is told on a number of and plenty of water. More transport by coach. walks. information on walking safely is available from www.ramblers. The Pendle Way We’ve plenty of options that org.uk under the advice We will be completing our will appeal to people of all section. agshi walk, the ile ages from short, easy walks to Pendle Way, over four days with something more strenuous and Website & Social Media the resentation of certificates everything in between. We’ve for those who complete the such variety why not take a entire walk. There is a charge look through our programme The festival programme for this walk because we and pick your favourites! is available as a download at provide coach transport for www.visitpendle.com each day’s walk. The cost of The Festival Launch completing the full walk is 6, The festival will be launched or 1 for a single stage of the at Pendle Heritage Centre, at You can also keep up to walk places for a single stage 1am on Saturday 1th August date with walking festival news will be released for booking followed by a number of walks. on our Facebook page. seven days before the start of It will be launched by The the festival. Please book and Mayor of Pendle, Councillor pay for the walk at en Hartley. Tweet us your pictures www.visitpendle.com/walks. and opinions of the festival Accommodation & Travel using @VisitPendle A wide range of uality accommodation is available in Car Parking Pendle. For more details please There is car parking available visit www.visitpendle.com. near most starting points but for Wycoller walks please allow Information for joining one 115 minutes to walk from of our walks the car park to get to the start The festival programme has point in the village. For all walks been put together to include please ensure that you pay any walks to suit people of all parking charges. There is no abilities. We have graded each guarantee of parking spaces walk as follows. near to the start of the walks, so Aitken Wood Aitken Wood 3 Country Brook, Foulridge Aitken Wood Aitken Wood C Aitken Wood Walking Festival A5 booklet 2019 6 09/05/2019 16:19 Ballgrove Lake, Colne Aitken Wood 4 Walking Festival A5 booklet 2019 7 09/05/2019 16:19 Saturday 10th August Noggarth before returning back into Clitheroe, Whalley and Colne”. We Barrowford. Stunning views of the walk across Pendle from Burnley Pendle countryside can be enjoyed to Clitheroe as in the song, via Festival launch with the along much of the route. the canal, Higham, Sabden Fold, Mayor, 10am, Pendle Leader: Helen Thompson Cock Clough, Spence Moor, and Heritage Centre. Mearley, finishing at the bus station 4. Blacko Beat in Clitheroe, to catch the bus back 1. Pendle’s nature reserves – to Burnley. Please bring bus fare Greenfield money. 2 miles - Easy - Gentle Pace 8 miles - Hard - Gentle Pace Leader: Chris Marshall Meet at Pendle Heritage Centre, Meet at Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford at 10.30am Barrowford at 10.30am Sunday 11th Grid Ref: SD862397 Grid Ref: SD862397 Map Ref: H Map Ref: H Post Code: BB9 6JQ Post Code: BB9 6JQ 7. Moores and valleys One of a series of easy walks This walk takes us through fields visiting our nature reserves. This is and hills in the Blacko area, with a small woodland reserve part of wonderful vistas, returning for 5 miles - Moderate - Gentle which was once a cotton mill. refreshments at the Heritage Pace Leader: John Belbin Centre. Meet at layby off A6068 at top of Leader: Peter Smith Higham village at 10.00am 2. Slipper Hill reservoir and Grid Ref: SD812366 Map Ref: Q Blacko 5.