Saturday 11Th to Sunday 19Th August 57 Guided Walks in Some of Lancashire’S Most Beautiful Countryside, from the Easy to the Challenging
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Saturday 11th to Sunday 19th August 57 guided walks in some of Lancashire’s most beautiful countryside, from the easy to the challenging. Graphic Design by The Communication Team, Pendle Borough Council iJb 11890 5/2018. © Cover photograph byTom Partridge Key to symbols Dogs welcome Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. Dogs are not allowed on walks not showing this symbol. Country pubs or cafés These walks will visit one of our country pubs or a café for a short refreshment break during or after the walk. Packed lunch Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential Please follow the instructions with the listing for booking these walks. Up and Active Walks Health walks organised by Pendle Leisure Trust. www.pendleleisuretrust.co.uk Family Friendly Walks These walks will include games, stories or treasure hunts to help children engage with the natural world and local history. Gentle Slopes The walk will have only gentle slopes. Hilly Sections Welcome to one of the UK’s The walk will include some hilly largest walking festivals! sections. The annual Pendle Walking Gentle Pace We will set a gentle pace with Festival has put the area regular breaks to catch your breath and enjoy the view. firmly on the map. It’s a Faster Pace fantastic place to walk and We hope to set a faster pace with only occasional breaks. enjoy some of the most No Stiles stunning countryside views in The route will not include any stiles, but please check with the the whole of Lancashire. leader about the suitability for pushchairs or wheelchairs. Follow us on facebook © Photography by Steve Bradley, Mark Tattersall, Andy Ford, Sarah Lee, Bernard L’Estrange, Lee Johnson, Tom Partridge, Stephen Garnett and Matt Garside. Follow us or Tweet us @VisitPendle Easy advance is so that we can place walks of 1 to 4 miles a limit on the numbers attending Moderate each walk, and so avoid over- walks of 4 to 7 miles large groups on popular walks. Hard This helps to improve the safety walks of 7 to 10 miles and enjoyment of everyone Very Hard taking part. If you have walks of 10+ miles downloaded this programme then simply click on the link What to bring on the walk for the walk which you want to Please wear suitable footwear book onto. If you are using the and clothing for outdoor printed programme then visit walking. Pendle’s weather www.eventbrite.co.uk, then can be wet so please bring to find your walk type Pendle waterproofs. It’s important Walking Festival, or the name of to remember to bring food your chosen walk, in the search and plenty of water. More for events box. All walks are information on walking safely is free apart from those where we available from www.ramblers. provide transport by coach. org.uk under the advice section. The Pendle Way Welcome to the UK’s the Quaker movement. at the weekend for fresh air, will appeal to people of all We will be completing our largest free walking Another radical thinker was refreshments and political ages from short, easy walks Website & Social Media flagship walk, the 45 mile festival! Pendle offers a 17th century mathematician debate at Clarion Houses. One to something more strenuous Pendle Way, over four days with fantastic place to walk Jonas Moore, who was born in of the challenge walks we have and everything in between. The festival programme is the presentation of certificates Pendle in 1617. this year features the Clarion We’ve such variety – why available as a download for those who complete the and enjoy some of the Affectionately known as Way, a route that takes in two don’t you take a look through at www.visitpendle.com entire walk. There is a charge most stunning views in the the Father of Time, he was former Clarions and the only our programme and pick your for this walk because we north of England. responsible for setting up remaining Clarion House in the favourites! You can also keep up provide coach transport at the Greenwich Observatory, country, nestling under Pendle to date with walking the start or end of each day’s This year we are launching which gave the world its time Hill. The Festival Launch festival news on our Facebook walk. The cost of completing the event in the beautiful – Greenwich Mean Time. A Also making history of a The festival will be launched page: Pendle Walking Festival the full walk is be £36, or £10 village of Barley as a special new walk exploring the hidden darker kind were the Pendle at Barley Cabin, Barley BB12 for a single stage (places for a homage to our most iconic Sabden Valley covers his story, Witches of 1612. The world 9JX at 10am on Saturday 11th Tweet us your pictures single stage will be released for natural landmark, Pendle Hill. including his birthplace over famous trial of Pendle villagers August followed by a number and opinions of the booking 7 days before the start Practically a mountain, the hill 400 years ago, in Higham. was used by later witch-finders of walks. It will be launched by festival using @VisitPendle of the festival). Please book and has inspired many, including From radical thinkers to in England and, famously, in The Mayor of Pendle, Councillor pay for the walk by going to George Fox, the founder of radical writers... a number of Salem Massachusetts. The James Keith Starkie. Car Parking www.eventbrite.co.uk the Quaker Movement, who our walks feature the paths turbulent true story of the There is car parking available climbed the hill in 1652. around Wycoller, including the Pendle Witches is told on a Accommodation & Travel near most starting points, but Pendle Hill is part of the Brontë and Ferndean Ways. number of our walks, most A wide range of quality for Wycoller walks please allow Forest of Bowland Area of These follow in the footsteps of notably on the Pendle Sculpture accommodation is available in 10 – 15 minutes to walk from Outstanding Natural Beauty. the literary giants, the Brontë Trail, which features in the Pendle. For more details please the car park to get to the start Its importance to the local sisters, including Emily Brontë programme. visit www.visitpendle.com. point in the village. For all walks landscape and the people of the whose 200th anniversary is this We also have our special please ensure that you pay area has been recognised by year. challenge walk – The Pendle Information for joining one any parking charges which are a £1.8 million Heritage Lottery Radical thinking also brought Way. Complete the challenge of our walks applicable. grant which will help maintain the countryside nearer to and we’ll reward your The festival programme has and enhance our legendary working men and women, efforts with our now famous been put together to include How to book on bookable hill. The funding will also be with the setting up of Clarion Certificates of Achievement! walks to suit people of all walks used to explore the special Houses in areas of great natural Catch a glimpse of The Pendle abilities. We have graded each We have extended our booking character of the area’s history beauty. In Lancashire, textile Way on video on our website walk as follows: system to include all moderate, and culture including George workers who spent long hours www.visitpendle.com hard and very hard walks. The Fox, a visionary who founded in the cotton mills could escape We’ve plenty of walks that reason for asking you to book in 2 3 Saturday 11th August 4. Pendle Hill 7. Three Rivers 1. A Pendle Amble 10 miles - Hard - 10.30am 7 miles - Moderate - 2.00pm Meet at Barley Car Park Meet at Colne Railway Station 3 miles - Easy - 10.30am Grid Ref: SD823403 Grid Ref: SD881398 Meet at Barley Car Park Map Ref: D Map Ref: E Grid Ref: SD823403 Post Code: BB12 9JX Post Code: BB8 9NP Map Ref: D Our route takes us to the summit We head towards Water Meetings Post Code: BB12 9JX of Pendle and across upland where Blacko Water and Pendle A stroll at the foot of Pendle moors to the Nick of Pendle and Water meet, and then follow Hill taking in Lower Black Moss Churn Clough Reservoir. Booking the course of Pendle Water Reservoir. essential, packed lunch. downstream to where it meets Leader: John Belbin Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk Colne Water, which we follow Tel. 01282 867291 Leader: Roy Davies upstream to Primet Bridge. Tel. 07595 302797 Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk 2. Whitehough and Leader: Jennifer Little Newchurch 5. Wuthering Heights Tel. 07543 328397 (text only) 4 miles - Moderate - 10.30am 13 miles - Very Hard - 10.30am Meet at Barley Car Park Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Grid Ref: SD823403 Country Park Map Ref: D Grid Ref: SD933391 Post Code: BB12 9JX Map Ref: B We will be walking some of the Post Code: BB8 8SY less well used paths to the west Come and enjoy a splendid of Barley with time for a short moorland walk to celebrate the stop at the Witches Galore shop in 200th anniversary of the birth of Newchurch. Emily Brontë visiting locations Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk associated with her famous novel Leader: Tom Partridge Wuthering Heights. Tel. 07764 362592 Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk Leader: John Crow 3. The Moors and Tel. 07857 252621 Cloughs of Pendle 6. East Colne Way 8 miles - Hard - 10.30am Meet at Barley Car Park 5 miles - Moderate - 11.00am Grid Ref: SD823403 Meet at Lakeside Cafe, Ball Map Ref: D Grove Park, Colne Post Code: BB12 9JX Grid Ref: SD909403 A walk over the moors, with views Map Ref: R over the Ribble Valley, and exploring Post Code: BB8 7HY the stream valleys of Pendle Hill.