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FREE PROGRAMME Includes Family Friendly Walks

Saturday 13th August to Sunday 21st August 71 guided walks in some of ’s most beautiful countryside, from the easy to the challenging. key to symbols

Dogs welcome Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. Dogs are Bewitching, not allowed on walks not showing this symbol.

Country pubs or cafés These walks will visit one boats and of our country pubs or a café for a short refreshment At Whalley Warm & Dry we understand the importance of properly fitted, break during or after the supportive footwear and its impact on the comfort of your feet and the enjoyment walk. of your walk. Customers travel from across the country to take advantage of our Brontës… Lunch stop No need to bring your award-winning specialist fitting service and years of experience... sarnies! We will stop at a Welcome to one of the UK’s pub or café for a light meal largest walking festivals! during or after the walk. History walks The annual Pendle Walking Festival These walks focus on the has put the area firmly on the map. history of the area. Pushchair friendly It’s a fantastic place to walk and These walks follow stile-free enjoy some of the most stunning paths and are suitable for robust pushchairs. countryside views in the whole of Packed lunch Lancashire. Please bring a packed lunch.

Booking essential 1. WE MEASURE 2. WE ANALYSE To book a place on these Specially trained fitters take ten We interpret the measurements walks please use our online booking system provided by measurements to identify your and identify the foot type and www.eventbrite.co.uk. foot length, volume and size. arch height. Three Peaks These walks go to the summit of Pendle, and/or - Pendle’s Three Peaks.

Healthy Lifestyles Walks Walks run by Healthy Lifestyles. www.pendleleisuretrust. co.uk

Family Friendly Walks Children who complete three of these walks can win a prize (see back 3. WE ADVISE 4. WE CUSTOMISE Follow us on facebook page). Children must be We match your foot shape to our Using specialist machinery, accompanied by an adult. range of footwear available in 5 footwear can be gently steamed Follow us or Tweet us @VisitPendle Brontë 200 width fittings and half sizes. and stretched for a custom fit. Walks associated with © Photography by Steve , Mark Tattersall, Andy Ford, Sarah Lee, Charlotte Brontë’s Anthony Howarth, Elaine Eccles, Alistair Lee, Vapour Trail bicentenary To book a boot fitting appointment please call 01254 822220 and John Imeson. Canal 200 Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm & Sunday 1pm - 5pm Graphic Design by The Communication Team, Pendle Council Walks which mark 200 iJb 11608 5/2016 years of the Leeds & www.whalleyoutdoor.co.uk canal Every year there’s something special and this year’s no exception. As well as walks about our most famous past residents, the of 1612, we are marking the 200th anniversaries of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the birth of world renowned novelist, Charlotte Brontë. This year festival goers have the opportunity to enjoy many canal walks including a special walk followed by lunch and a canal cruise, (see walk 13). Charlotte Brontë and her siblings were visitors to the picturesque village of and was the tell the story in a spellbinding The Festival Launch What to bring on the walk Website & Social Media Walk Bookings with inspiration for Ferndean Manor presentation, organised by the You are warmly invited to Please come suitably equipped WEB The festival programme Eventbrite® in Jane Eyre. Friends of Pendle Heritage attend the launch of the for your chosen walk. Items to is available as a download at Booking is essential for a We’ve plenty of walks that Centre (see page 13). Festival at Café Cargo at bring may include a packed www.visitpendle.com number of walks in this year’s will appeal to people of all We also have the Pendle Wharf, at 10am on lunch, something to drink, FACEBOOK You can also keep festival programme, as shown ages from short, easy walks to Three Peaks Challenge. Done Saturday 13th August. The waterproofs, a sun hat and sun up to date with walking festival by the B+ symbol. To book on something more strenuous and in a day, it takes in the wild Festival will be launched by cream. More information on news on our Facebook page a walk visit www.eventbrite. everything in between. moorland of Boulsworth and the Mayor of Pendle, Cllr walking safely is available from TWITTER Tweet us your co.uk and search for the walk We’ve got walks with Weets Hills (walk 56). Rosemary Carroll, followed by www.ramblers.org.uk under pictures and opinions of the by typing in “Pendle Walking some fascinating history The classic climb up the the start of a number of walks. the ‘Advice’ section. festival using @VisitPendle Festival” or the name of the including one which passes legendary is the walk. If you have downloaded the birthplace of the Inventor high point on several walks Accommodation & Travel Walk grading Other Walking Festivals in this programme then simply of (Greenwich Mean) Time, during the festival. It’s a place A wide range of Easy – A easy paced walk with the area. follow the link for the walk you Jonas Moore, the influential which once inspired the accommodation is available in only gentle slopes (1 – 4 miles) Walking Festival wish to book. Eventbrite® 17th century mathematician, founder of the Quakers, George Pendle. 7th – 15th May 2016 handles the bookings for us, surveyor and patron of Fox, in 1652. Please call our visitor Moderate – An easy paced (and every May) and collects payments for astronomy. There are walks We’ve such variety – why information centres for our Visit walk over varied terrain with www.visitwyre.co.uk/events chargeable walks. which explore real murders and don’t you take a look through Pendle guide or visit www. some hilly sections (3 – 7 miles) stories of ghostly horsemen. our programme and pick your visitpendle.com. Staff can also Witton Weavers Way If you do not have access to And for more recent history favourites! help you with your travel plans. Hard – A slightly faster paced Walking & Cycling Festival the internet then you can book you can visit the last remaining walk with varied terrain and June 4th – 19th June 2016 through Clarion House in the country. Family Friendly Visitor Information Centres hills (7 – 10 miles) www..gov.uk (telephone 01282 677150), but If you would like a challenge Our Walking Festival is in the Discover Pendle Centre there is a £2 transaction fee for then over 4 days the summer school holidays and 01282 856186 Very Hard – A varied all-day Walk & each booking in addition to the tells we’ve a number of family Pendle Heritage Centre walk covering longer distances Ride Festival cost of the walk. the story of the Pendle Witches -friendly walks to enjoy. 01282 677150 (10+ miles) 10th – 25th September 2016 by retracing the steps of their Families can join us for just County Information Centre www.walkandridefestival. tragic 51 mile trek, through three of the walks throughout 01282 698533 co.uk fabulous countryside, to their the festival to enter our Billy the trial and execution in Lancaster Badger competition (see the For other events in Lancashire, (see walks 1, 17, 33 and 48). inside back page). you can check out www. The creator of the walk will also visitlancashire.com.

2 3 11. In and out of Ball Grove Local Nature Reserve

4 miles - Easy - 10.30am Meet at Morris Dancers, Grid Reference: SD899404 Map Reference: R Post Code: BB8 0BH We enjoy the wildlife of the reserve and also look at the industrial, philanthropic and religious history of the area. Leader: Jennifer Little Tel. 07543 328397 (text only) Saturday 13th August 3. Boulsworth and Back 5. Petite Weets 7. Pendle Hill Circular Walk 9. The Witch and the Eye of God 12. Beating the Bounds 1. Lancashire Witches Walk Day 1 - to Read 9 miles - Hard - 10.00am 10 miles - Hard - 10.30am 6 miles - Moderate - 11.30am Meet at Walverden Reservoir Car Meet at Foulridge Wharf Meet at Barley Car Park 9 miles - Hard - 10.00am 9 miles - Hard - 10.30am Park, Nelson Grid Reference: SD888425 Grid Reference: SD823403 Meet at Barley Car Park Meet at Letcliffe Park, 14.5 miles - Very Hard - 9.30am Grid Reference: SD870366 Map Reference: J Map Reference: D Grid Reference: SD823403 Meet at Pendle Heritage Centre, Map Reference: X Post Code: BB8 7PP Post Code: BB12 9JX Map Reference: D Grid Reference: SD878458 Barrowford Post Code: BB9 0HZ The walk starts on the canal tow We’ll ascend Pendle via the Big End Post Code: BB12 9JX Map Reference: C Grid Ref: SD863398 We climb one of Pendle’s Three path and then ascends steadily to and return down Boar Clough - both We pass sites associated with one Post Code: BB18 5HE Map Ref: M Peaks – – an Weets Hill to enjoy the panoramic ascent and descent are steep. of the Pendle Witches and see the Beat the boundary stones on Post Code: BB9 6JQ excellent viewpoint. views. We return via the Cross Leader: John Belbin eye of God, before climbing Pendle. this circular walk and join us for The first day of a four days walk to Leader: Keith Sutton Gaits Inn and Watermeetings. Tel. 01282 867291 Leader: Shirley Addy lunch at Victory Park provided by in the footsteps Tel. 07796 490361 Leader: Mark Roper Barnoldswick Town Council. of the Pendle Witches. We look Tel. 07739 707626 Sunday 14th August 10. Old Boundaries and Leader: Keith Pickup at the history of their trial and 4. Canals, Streams and Moorland Heights Tel. 07910 325968 execution for witchcraft. A bus will Reservoirs 6. A Cut Above the Rest meet us at Read for the return to 8. A visit to Manor and Gawthorpe Hall 13. Walk, Eat, Cruise Barrowford. Cost: £12 (includes 12 miles - Very Hard - 10.00am coach transport). Book here. 4 miles - Easy - 10.30am 6.5 miles - Moderate - 10.30am Meet at Alkincoats Park main Leader: Marjorie Smith Meet at Foulridge Wharf Meet at Foulridge Wharf 7 miles - Moderate - 10.00am entrance, Colne 4 miles - Easy - 10.30am Tel. 07757 709273 Grid Reference: SD888425 Grid Reference: SD888425 Meet at layby at the top of Grid Reference: SD880404 Meet at Foulridge Wharf Map Reference: J Map Reference: J Higham Village Map Reference: E Grid Reference: SD888425 2. Around Wheathead Post Code: BB8 7PP Post Code: BB8 7PP Grid Reference: SD812368 Post Code: BB8 9QQ Map Reference: J

An easy walk along the Leeds and We look at the history of the Leeds Map Reference: L We walk along parts of the old Post Code: BB8 7PP Liverpool Canal, then past the and Liverpool Canal and see its county boundary of Lancashire and A walk, followed by lunch at Café 9 miles - Hard - 10.00am Post Code: BB12 9EU tranquil Slipper Hill Reservoir, the enduring contribution to Pendle’s A visit to the newly researched the West Riding of . We Cargo on the wharf and then a 1.5 Meet at Barley Car Park hour cruise aboard the Marton Grid Reference: SD823403 western end of the Mile Tunnel and attractive countryside. site of Ightenhill Manor House climb Weets Hill with its excellent Map Reference: D return past Lake Burwain. Leader: Norman Mitchell and to Gawthorpe Hall (visited by views and pass many 17th Century Emperor on the Leeds and Liverpool Post Code: BB12 9JX Leader: Tel. 07549 164739 Charlotte Brontë) farmsteads. Canal. Cost: adults £15, children A circular walk in the shadow of Roger Haythornthwaite Leader: Geoff Salter Leader: Wayne Bowman £7.50 - £11 (includes light lunch and Pendle Hill, using quiet paths to Tel. 07816 231928 Tel. 07341 283376 Tel. 07340 283113 canal cruise). visit streams, wooded valleys and Book here. open moorland. Leader: Norman Mitchell Leader: Adrian Clark Tel. 07549 164739 Tel. 07980 775716

4 5 20. Pinhaw Beacon and 23. Last Clarion Call Robert Wilson’s Grave

5.5 miles - Moderate - 11.00am 9 miles - Hard - 10.30am Meet at Victoria Park, Nelson Meet at Bus Station Grid Reference: SD853381 Grid Reference: SD907468 Map Reference: K Map Reference: A Post Code: BB9 7SS Post Code: BB18 6UR A walk to the last remaining Clarion We take the field paths, forest House in the country, via Noggarth tracks and open moorland to join Top, which is passed twice. the to Pinhaw Beacon. Leader: Harry Manning Leader: Keith Pickup Tel. 07910 325968 24. In the footsteps of Charlotte Brontë 21. Water Three Ways

4 miles - Easy - 2.00pm 14. Around Brown Hill from 16. Pendle the easiest way! 18. In the Footsteps of the 7 miles - Moderate - 10.30am Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Barley Brontës Meet at Pendle Heritage Centre, Country Park Barrowford Grid Reference: SD933391 4 miles - Moderate - 2.00pm Grid Reference: SD863398 Map Reference: B 4.5 miles - Moderate - 11am Meet at Barley Car Park 16 miles - Very Hard - 9.30am Map Reference: M Post Code: BB8 8SU Meet at Barley Car Park Grid Reference: SD823403 Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Post Code: BB9 6JQ Wycoller has long been linked with Grid Reference: SD823403 Map Reference: D Country Park A walk via Water Meetings to the Brontë sisters and this walk Map Reference: D Post Code: BB12 9JX Grid Reference: SD933391 Admergill, across hills to Slipper explores some significant places in Post Code: BB12 9JX A walk taking the gentlest possible Map Reference: B Hill Reservoir, and returning along the life and fiction of Charlotte, as We pass the hamlet of Whitehough route up Pendle and returning via Post Code: BB8 8SU the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. part of the celebration of the 200th and through a small plantation to the steps to the café at Barley. We follow a route believed to be Leader: Geoff Salter year since her birth. Brown Hill with excellent views Leader: Manzar Iqbal one of Charlotte Brontë’s favourite Tel. 07341 283376 Leader: John Crow of Pendle Hill. We return via field walks, via Ponden, Top Withins and Tel. 07756 020992 paths and Black Moss reservoir for Monday 15th August Watersheddles. 22. Under Pendle refreshments at the Pendle Inn. Leader: Keith Sutton 25. Ghosts, Myths and Leader: Adrian Clark 17. Lancashire Witches Walk Tel. 07796 490361 Legends Tel. 07980 775716 Day 2 - Read Old Bridge 5 miles - Moderate - 11.00am 19. Pendle Hill and to Meet at Barley Car Park 15. Wycoller and Knarrs Hill Spence Moor Grid Reference: SD823403 3 miles - Easy - 6.30pm Map Reference: D Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller 14.5 miles - Very Hard - 9.00am Post Code: BB12 9JX Country Park 8.5 miles - Hard - 10.00am 6 miles - Moderate - 11.00am Meet at Slaidburn Car Park A figure of eight walk exploring Grid Reference: SD933391 Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Grid Reference: SD713523 Meet at Barley Car Park lesser used paths with little ascent. Map Reference: B Grid Reference: SD823403 Country Park Map Reference: (not shown) Leader: John Belbin Post Code: BB8 8SU Map Reference: D Grid Reference: SD933391 Post Code: BB7 3ES Tel. 01282 867291 An entertaining exploration of Map Reference: B A bus will take us to the start in Post Code: BB12 9JX Wycoller through its many myths, Post Code: BB8 8SU Read, from where we will walk We start by climbing Pendle and legends and ghost stories including We follow the Pendle Way and through , and then follow moorland paths, stories which inspired Charlotte to enjoy the Waddington to the day’s finish returning via the picturesque Brontë. views from the craggy hill top of at Slaidburn. Cost: £12 (includes Newchurch-in-Pendle. Leader: John Crow Knarrs Hill. coach transport) Book Here. Tel. 07756 020992 Leader: Mark Roper Book Here. Leader: Lee Johnson Tel. 07739707626 Leader: Adrian Clark Tel. 07747 764709 Tel. 07980 775716 6 7 Tuesday 16th August 29. Brogden and Bracewell 31. The Ferndean Way and Circular Winewall 26. Along the Saperden Valley 9 miles - Hard - 10.30am 4 miles - Easy - 2.00pm Meet at Barnoldswick Town Meet at Lakeside Café , Ball 5 miles - Moderate - 10am Square Grove Park, off Ball Grove Drive, Meet at the cross roads in Grid Reference: SD878466 Colne Map Reference: C Grid Reference: SD908403 Grid Reference: SD779375 Post Code: BB18 5AA Map Reference: R Map Reference: F We follow old rights of way to Post Code: BB8 7HY Post Code: BB7 9DZ , passing via a Roman road An easy paced walk along A walk along the quiet footpaths of and the site of Stock medieval the Ferndean Way taking in the Sabden Valley. settlement, which is listed as a Laneshawbridge, Wycoller and Leader: Norman Mitchell scheduled ancient monument. Winewall. Tel. 07549 164739 Leader: Keith Pickup Leader: Roger Haythornthwaite Tel. 07910 325968 Tel. 07816 231928 27. Two up, two down 34. 36. Wycoller and the 38. Canal and Reservoirs 30. The Forest of 32. Thornton-in- Brontës Circular and The Ferndean Way 6 miles - Moderate - 10.00am 7 miles - Moderate - 11.30am 7 miles - Moderate - 10.00am Meet at Barley Car Park Meet at Four Elephants 7 miles - Moderate - 10.30am Meet at Pendle Heritage Centre, 4.5 miles - Moderate - 6pm 7 miles - Moderate - 11.00am Restaurant, Foulridge Meet at Lakeside Café, Ball Barrowford Grid Reference: SD823403 Meet at Rolls Royce Leisure, Meet at Lakeside Café , Ball Grid Reference: SD891426 Grove Park, off Ball Grove Drive, Grid Reference: SD863398 Map Reference: D Road, Barnoldswick Post Code: BB12 9JX Grove Park, off Ball Grove Drive, Map Reference: J Colne Map Reference: M Colne Grid Reference: SD885 476 Post Code: BB8 7PY Grid Reference: SD908403 Post Code: BB9 6JQ Exploring the footpaths, woodlands, Map Reference: C streams and reservoirs beneath Grid Reference: SD908403 A walk passing close to Map Reference: R A largely flat walk along the canal Map Reference: R Post Code: BB18 6HQ Tower, one of Pendle’s iconic Post Code: BB8 7HY and around its reservoirs. Pendle Hill. Walking the field paths around Leader: Ron Whalley Post Code: BB8 7HY landmarks, with excellent views Visit the historic hamlet of Leader: John Belbin Following and Wycoller Thornton-in-Craven. towards Pendle Hill. Wycoller and investigate its Brontë Tel. 01282 867291 Tel. 07712 861665 Leader: Keith Pickup Beck to the historic hamlet of Leader: Ian Lowcock connections. Tel. 07910 325968 28. Local Leeds and Wycoller on the Ferndean Way. Tel. 07956 516177 Leader: John Crow 39. Back o’ th’ Edge Liverpool Canal History Following the Pendle Way and the Wednesday 17th August Tel. 07756 020992 Brontë Way back via Lumb Spout 35. Border Crossing and Upper Trawden. 33. Lancashire Witches Walk 37. Pendle Hill Circular 4 miles - Easy - 1.30pm 3.5 miles - Easy - 10.30am Leader: John Lofthouse Day 3 - Slaidburn to Walk Meet at Pendle Leisure Centre, Meet at Pendle Heritage Centre, Tel. 07827 622645 Deep Clough 8 miles - Hard - 10.00am Colne Barrowford Meet at Anchor Inn Grid Reference: SD881398 Grid Reference: SD863398 Grid Reference: SD887453 7 miles - Hard - 11.00am Map Reference: E Map Reference: M 12 miles - Very Hard - 9.00am Map Reference: H Meet at Barley Car Park Post Code: BB8 9NP Post Code: BB9 6JQ Meet at Slaidburn Car Park Post Code: BB18 5TT Grid Reference: SD823403 Our walk heads up through An easy walk along the Leeds and Grid Reference: SD713523 Along the towpath and through Map Reference: D Alkincoats park and nature reserve Liverpool Canal to the lock keepers Map Reference: (not shown) fields from Salterforth to Thornton, Post Code: BB12 9JX to Back o’ th’ Edge, with its fine cottage at Barrowford Locks. Post Code: BB7 3ES and back along the old railway. This is the classic walk up Pendle’s views. The circuit is completed by We also visit with its From Slaidburn the walk heads Leader: Norman Mitchell Big End and across Barley Moor way of the Leeds and Liverpool wonderful old into the high Bowland Fells. A bus Tel. 07549 164739 from the summit. We return through Canal and Barrowford Park. and mill. will meet us at Deep Clough for the historic village of Newchurch- Leader: Denis Kirkbride Leader: Andrea Smith the return to Slaidburn. Cost: £12 in-Pendle. Tel. 07581 077792 (includes coach transport) Leader: Marjorie Smith Book Here. Tel. 07757 709273 Leader: Roger Duckworth Tel. 01254 247166 8 9 40. Not a Foul Ridge 43. Through the Forest of 46. Jonas Moore and Friday 19th August 50. Thursden Valley Pendle Higham History Walk 48. Lancashire Witches Walk 3.5 miles - Easy - 6.30pm Day 4 - Deep Clough to 7 miles - Moderate - 10.30am Meet at Foulridge Village Green 5 miles - Moderate - 10.00am 3.5 miles - Easy - 2.00pm Lancaster Castle Meet at Junction of Kings Grid Reference: SD889423 Meet at Victoria Park, Nelson Meet at Layby at the top of Causeway, and Halifax Map Reference: J Grid Reference: SD853381 Higham Village Road, Nelson near Nelson Golf Post Code: BB8 7PL Map Reference: K Grid Reference: SD812368 10.5 miles - Very Hard - 9.00am Club An evening stroll taking in Lake Post Code: BB9 7SS Map Reference: L Meet at Lancaster Castle Grid Reference: SD867361 Burwain, Alkincoats woodland A walk through the ancient hunting Post Code: BB12 9EU (prison entrance) Map Reference: G nature reserve and the tiny but ground called the Little known facts about one of Grid Reference: SD474617 Post Code: BB9 0EU picturesque Slipper Hill reservoir, with great views of Pendle Hill. Higham’s greatest sons, 17th Map Reference: (not shown) A visit to Thursden Valley along part returning for a well deserved drink! Leader: Ron Whalley century mathematician and Post Code: LA1 1YN of the Pendle Way. Leader: Mark Roper Tel. 07712 861665 astronomer Sir Jonas Moore and Day 4 - The bus will take us from Leader: Geoff Salter Tel. 07739 707626 the village where he lived. Includes Lancaster Castle back to Deep Tel. 07341 283376 44. Around a children’s history quiz. Clough for the start of our final 41. A look at Canal Mills in Leader: Norman Mitchell day’s walk. We will arrive at 51. Over the Hill the West Tel. 07549 164739 Lancaster Castle’s Shire Hall in time 9 miles - Hard - 10.00am to see where the Pendle Witches Meet at Walverden Reservoir 47. Thursday Night is Pie were held before their trial. Cost: 10 miles - Hard - 10.30am 4 miles - Easy - 6.30pm Car Park Night! £12 (includes coach transport). Meet at Barley Car Park Meet at Victoria Park car park Grid Reference: SD870366 Book Here. Grid Reference: SD823403 Grid Reference: SD853381 Map Reference: X Leader: Ian Thornton-Bryar Map Reference: D Map Reference: K Post Code: BB9 0HZ 4 miles - Moderate - 6pm Tel. 07796 672494 Post Code: BB12 9JX Post Code: BB9 7SS We visit Lane Bottom, Swinden Meet at Rolls Royce Leisure, A classic ascent of Pendle and We take a look at the various mills and Thursden including part of the Skipton Road, Barnoldswick 49. Earby from Bronze age then a steep walk down into the on the bank of the canal including Pennine Bridleway. Grid Reference: SD885476 to Romans & Cornmills picturesque village of Downham for the stunning Northlight in Brierfield Leader: Keith Sutton Map Reference: C lunch before returning to Barley by and return via the industrial village Tel. 07796 490361 Post Code: BB18 6HQ field paths, possibly the route taken of Lomeshaye. We work up an appetite on a short 7 miles - Moderate - 10.00am by Quaker George Fox after his Leader: Jennifer Little 45. Pendle, Downham and walk via Rain Hall and Thornton Meet at Earby Youth Hostel vision on Pendle Hill. Tel. 07543 328397 (text only) Moor Hall farms. Optional meal at Rolls Grid Reference: SD915468 Leader: Kath Edmundson Leisure after walk. Map Reference: A Tel. 07930 194474 Thursday 18th August Leader: Keith Pickup Post Code: BB18 6JX 11 miles - Very Hard - 10.30am Tel. 07910 325968 The landscape around Earby has 52. Alice Nutter’s Way Meet at Barley Car Park been crafted by our ancestors 42. Miles without Stiles Grid Reference: SD823403 over many generations. We look Map Reference: D at the history behind some of the 4.5 miles - Easy - 11.00am Post Code: BB12 9JX buildings and unusual features Meet at Barley Car Park 4 miles - Easy - 10.00am A walk to the summit of Pendle which we see today. Grid Reference: SD823403 Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Hill taking a route which includes Leader: Margaret Brown Map Reference: D Country Park the , Twiston Tel. 07879 447438 Post Code: BB12 9JX Grid Reference: SD933391 Moor and Downham. With children in mind we take a Map Reference: B Leader: Peter Smith look at the story of one of the Post Code: BB8 8SU Tel. 07812 925738 Pendle Witches and visit her statue. A stroll round the Wycoller valley We take a break at a traditional with a talk on the sights and history. cottage café and finish with a light Leader: Roger Cunliffe hearted quiz. Tel. 07773 694350 Leader: Norman Mitchell Tel. 07549 164739

10 11 61. Ghosts, Heroes and Villains

1.5 miles - Easy - 12.00 noon Meet at Wallace Hartley Memorial, War Memorial, Albert Road, Colne Grid Reference: SD884399 Map Reference: E Post Code: BB8 0AE Enjoy a one hour walk with TV ghost presenter Simon Entwistle to learn about the town’s ghostly past, its heroes and its villains. Leader: Simon Entwistle Tel. 01200 426821

53. County Brook and the 55. Bat Walk and Talk Saturday 20th August 57. Feeding the Summit 59. Pendle Witches talk 62. Noyna Rocks Leeds and Liverpool of the Leeds and Canal 56. The Three Peaks of Liverpool Canal - Part 1 Presented by the Friends of 1 miles - Easy - 7.30pm Pendle Pendle Heritage Centre. 5 miles - Moderate - 1.30pm Meet at Pepper Hill Barn, Meet at 11am at the Barn, Meet at Lakeside Café, Ball Grove Park, off Ball Grove Drive, 6 miles - Moderate - 11.00am Wycoller Country Park 4 miles - Easy - 10.30am Pendle Heritage Centre Colne Meet at Colne Rugby Club, Grid Reference: SD932393 19 miles - Very Hard - 8.15am Meet at Foulridge Wharf This event is an illustrated talk by Harrison Drive Map Reference: B Meet at Lakeside Café , Ball Grid Reference: SD888425 Ian Thornton-Bryar, the author of Grid Reference: SD908403 Grid Reference: SD882408 Post Code: BB8 8SY Grove Park, off Ball Grove Drive, Map Reference: J the guide and creator of the walk. Map Reference: R Ian talks us through the walk Map Reference: E A presentation and quiz followed Colne Post Code: BB8 7PP Post Code: BB8 7HY and tells the story of the Pendle Post Code: BB8 9SF by a short walk to watch and hear Grid Reference: SD908403 We go round the reservoirs A pleasant stroll to the summit of witches. Noyna Rocks, with extensive views We walk though a woodland Wycoller’s bats. Map Reference: R formerly known as Carr’s and Cost: £2.50 members, of north east Lancashire and the nature reserve to County Brook, a Leader: Roger Cunliffe Post Code: BB8 7HY Brown Hill. Part 2 starts at 2pm. £4.00 non-members Yorkshire Dales. stream marking the old Lancashire Tel. 07773 694350 We start with a bus journey to Leader: Jennifer Little (pay on the door) Leader: John Crow Yorkshire border. We also see both Barley (included in the cost) and Tel. 07543 328397 (text only) Tel. 07756 020992 ends of the Mile Tunnel. set off on a challenging walk to 60. Moor and Leader: David Johns ascend the Three Peaks of Pendle: 58. Pendle Hill via Wheathead Height 63. Foulridge Wharf Circular Tel. 07840 965779 Pendle Hill, Weets and Boulsworth. Ogden Clough The walk finishes at the Trawden 54. Way out West in Pendle Arms which is served by a Mainline 7.5 miles - Hard - 11.00am 4 miles - Easy - 2.00pm bus service. It is 1 mile (bus or 5.5 miles - Moderate - 10.30am Meet at Barley Car Park Meet at Foulridge Wharf Meet at Barley Car Park walk) back to the car park at Ball Grid Reference: SD823403 Grid Reference: SD888425 6.5 miles - Moderate - 11.30am Grid Reference: SD823403 Grove. Please bring an extra packed Map Reference: D Map Reference: J Meet at New-in-Pendle Bridge, Map Reference: D meal and plenty of water. Cost: £12 Post Code: BB12 9JX Post Code: BB8 7PP Post Code: BB12 9JX at the Bottom of Barden Lane (includes coach transport). We pass the Black Moss Reservoirs An easy paced walk across fields We take the Pendle Way via Grid Reference: SD836354 Book here. on our way up to Rimington Moor. to Salterforth and back along the Boar Clough to the summit of Map Reference: Y Leader: Chris Marshall Our return is via Wheathead Height, Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Post Code: BB12 9DP Tel. 07837 754182 Pendle, looking at the history the fourth highest peak in Pendle and geography of the area. Our Leader: Roger Haythornthwaite Exploring the western end of the district. Tel. 07816 231928 , visiting a coal descent is via the Big End steps for Book here. mining museum to finish. refreshments in Barley. Leader: Tom Partridge Leader: Adrian Clark Leader: Margaret Fletcher Tel. 07764 362592 Tel. 01282 457909 Tel. 07980 775716

12 13 70. Cut and Cover the 72. Barley, , Thorneyholme and Heys Lane

6 miles - Moderate - 11.00am Meet at Foulridge Wharf 4 miles - Easy - 2.30pm Grid Reference: SD888425 Meet at Barley Car Park Map Reference: J Grid Reference: SD823403 Post Code: BB8 7PP Map Reference: D On this walk, via Salterforth and Post Code: BB12 9JX Lake Burwain, we visit each end of A gentle paced walk from Barley to the tunnel and discuss the history Roughlee to see the bronze statue of it’s construction, and the stories of Alice Nutter, one of the Pendle of the people who lived and worked Witches. We return via Heys Lane, on the canal. an ancient byway, often used by Leader: Adrian Clark artists for its classic view of Pendle 64. Feeding the Summit 66. Walking with Wolves 68. Tel. 07980 775716 Hill. of the Leeds and Circular Walk Leader: Roger Haythornthwaite Liverpool Canal - Part 2 71. Walking with Witches Tel. 07816 231928 9 miles - Very Hard - 10.15am (Part 2) Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller 7 miles - Hard - 10.30am 6.5 miles - Moderate - 2.00pm Country Park Meet at Quaker Bridge, Montford Meet at Foulridge Wharf Grid Reference: SD933391 Road (off Clitheroe Road), 3.5 miles - Moderate - 2.00pm Grid Reference: SD888425 Map Reference: B Brierfield Meet at Barley Car Park Map Reference: J Post Code: BB8 8SU Grid Reference: SD839365 Grid Reference: SD823403 Post Code: BB8 7PP Leaving Wycoller, we’ll visit sites of Map Reference: V Map Reference: D We follow the northern shore of historic interest whilst looking for Post Code: BB9 5QP Post Code: BB12 9JX Lake Burwain, explore Slipper Hill, the ‘wolves’. No dogs are allowed Through an ancient wooded clough The second of two loops from get a view or two of Whitemoor due to the restrictions of the Open and onto The Ridge overlooking Barley looking at the history of the Reservoir and see both ends of the Access land we will be using. Pendle hill. Includes a stop at Pendle Witches. There is a short, Mile Tunnel. Leader: Mark Chung Noggarth Café. but steep ascent. Leader: Jennifer Little Tel. 07803 299467 Leader: Martyn Pashley Leader: Roger Cunliffe Tel. 07543 328397 (text only) Tel. 07881 507245 Tel. 07773 694350 67. Clarion Call Sunday 21st August 69. Weets and Lister Well

65. Walking with Witches 7 miles - Moderate - 10.30am (Part 1) Meet at Barley Car Park 9 miles - Hard - 10.30am Grid Reference: SD823403 Meet at Barnoldswick Town Map Reference: D Square 4 miles - Moderate - 10.00am Post Code: BB12 9JX Grid Reference: SD878466 Meet at Barley Car Park A walk to the last Clarion House Map Reference: C Grid Reference: SD823403 in the Country. Refreshments are Post Code: BB18 5AA Map Reference: D available, but not food. We use the Way and Post Code: BB12 9JX Leader: Keith Pickup Open Access land to reach Weets The first of two loops from Barley Tel. 07910 325968 summit, returning via Lister Well. looking at the history of the trials of Leader: John Belbin the Pendle Witches over 400 years Tel. 01282 867291 ago. Some steep ascents. Part 2 starts at 2pm. Leader: Roger Cunliffe Tel. 07773 694350 14 15 and Pendle Ramblers are pleased to support Pendle Council with the Walking Festival and wish them every success. Further information on the Ramblers walks and other events can be found on

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