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heights of 266m above sea level and, on on and, level sea above 266m of heights

principal stabling points. Visit the parish parish the Visit points. stabling principal renowned Scarecrow Festival which has has which Festival Scarecrow renowned place to start your ramble, with a a with ramble, your start to place

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art galleries and plenty of independent independent of plenty and galleries art Those looking for a relaxing cup of tea tea of cup relaxing a for looking Those lovely 6.5km Downham circular walk walk circular Downham 6.5km lovely insight into Lancashire's past.For a a past.For Lancashire's into insight

offers a wide range of quality accommodation from camping barns, pods and and pods barns, camping from accommodation quality of range wide a offers

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Produced by Countryscape. Contains Ordnance Survey data your tearoom visit 1 Apple Store Café 16 Nectar Café © Crown copyright and database right 2015. with a walk or Snowhill Lane, Scorton, PR3 1BA at Be A Gardenmaker Tel: 01524 791011 Coars Farm, Wigglesworth, BD23 4SN cycle ride? Web: www.wyresdalepark.co.uk Tel: 01729 840848 21 Web: beagardenmaker.co.uk The Forest of Bowland AONB 2 Bashall Barn offers some of the most beautiful and contrasting walking in the country, Bashall Town, Clitheroe, BB7 3LQ 17 Northcote from400m the moorland hills to the Tel: 01200 428964 Northcote Road, , BB6 8BE undulating lowlands, wooded cloughs Web: www.bashallbarn.co.uk Tel: 01254 240555 to river valleys. The walking boot icon Web: www.northcote.com Hellifieldon the map shows the start points, 3 Bolton by Bowland Tea Rooms download 50+ walks from 18 Parkers Arms Main St, Bolton-by-Bowland, BB7 4NW www.forestofbowland.com/ Tel: 01200 447201 Newton-in-Bowland BB7 3DY 001231 2 3 4 walking556786 7 8 99110 kkmm N Tel: 01200 446236 0 1123452 3 4 5 6 Miles 4 Bowland Visitor Centre Café Web: www.parkersarms.co.uk Outstanding scenery, picturesque villages and a network of quiet lanes - Beacon Fell Country Park, Preston, PR3 2NL 400m 19 all waiting to be explored. And what Tel: 01995 641160 Potter's Barn better way to do it than by bike? Ribchester, PR3 3YE The cycle icon on the map shows the 5 Bowland Wild Boar Park Café Tel: 01254 878431 Hellifield start points for 10 routes – download Web: www.potters-barn.com Chipping, PR3 2QT from www.forestofbowland. Tel: 01995 61075 001231 2 3 4 com/cycling556786 7 8 99110 kkmm 20 Puddleducks Tearoom Web: www.wildboarpark.co.uk N Dunsop Bridge, BB7 3BB 0 1123452 3 4 5 6 Miles 6 Bridge House Farm Tearooms Tel: 01200 448241 Wray, LA2 8QP Web: www.puddleduckscafe.co.uk Tel: 015242 22496 Web: www. facebook.com/BridgeHouseFarmWray 21 Riverbank Tearooms Slaidburn, BB7 3ES 7 Cobble Hey Farm & Gardens Tel: 01200 446398 Claughton on Brock, PR3 0QN Web: www.riverbanktearooms.co.uk Tel: 01995 602643 Web: www.cobblehey.co.uk 22 Spread Eagle Sawley, BB7 4NH 8 Cobbled Corner Café Tel: 01200 441202 Chipping, PR3 2QH Web: www.spreadeaglesawley.co.uk Tel: 01995 61551 Web: www.cobbled-corner.co.uk 23 The Barn Scorton, PR3 1AU 9 Country Kitchen Tel: 01524 793533 Waddington, BB7 3HP Web: www.plantsandgifts.co.uk Tel: 01200 429364 Web: www.facebook.com/ 24 The Cabin countrykitchenwaddington Barley, BB12 9JX Tel: 01282 696937 10 Delicious Deli & Café Web: www.facebook.com/ Gisburn, BB7 4HA Barleypicnicsite Tel: 01200 445213 Web: www.facebook.com/ 25 The Garden Kitchen DeliciousGisburn Holden, BB7 4PF 21 Tel: 01200 447615 11 Gisburn Forest Hub Café Web: www.holdencloughnursery.com Gisburn Forest, BB7 4TS Tel: 01200 446387 26 Gibbon Bridge Hotel Web: www.facebook.com/ & Restaurant gisburnforesthub Green Lane, Chipping, PR3 2TQ Tel: 01995 61456 12 Greendale View Kitchen Web: www.gibbon-bridge.co.uk Downham Road, Chatburn, BB7 4DL Tel: 01200 441517 27 The Old Vicarage Tea Room Web: www.greendaleview.com Tosside, BD23 4SF Tel: 07809489282 21 13 Web: www.tossidetearoom.org Holmes Mill Food Hall Café 5 21 Greenacre St, Clitheroe, BB7 1EB 14 Tel: 01200 407130 28 The Priory Web: www.holmesmill.co.uk Scorton, PR3 1AU Key255 Tel: 01524 791255 5 145 Café / Tearoom 14 Hornby Tea Rooms Web: www.theprioryscorton.co.uk 14 1425 Inn 400m Main St, Hornby, LA2 8JR 25 255 Hotel Tel: 015242 21237 29 The Traddock 5 145 Visitor attraction Web: www.facebook.com/ Austwick, Settle, LA2 8BY HornbyTeaRooms Tel: 01524 251224 25 Information Centres Hellifield Web: www.thetraddock.co.uk 5 Viewpoints 15 Inn at Whitewell Walking Route Start Points Whitewell, BB7 3AT 400mCycling Route Start Points Tel: 01200 448222 400m Elevation Height Above Sea Level 001231 2 3 4 556786 7 8 99110 kkmm Web: www.innatwhitewell.com Hellifield Station N www.forestofbowland.com 0 1123452 3 4 5 6 Miles Hellifield

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