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Wray Village Leaflet in PDF Format the flood. Don’t miss this! miss Don’t flood. the community garden with a stone mosaic commemorating mosaic stone a with garden community egional Development Agency and Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board. Tourist Blackpool and Lancashire and Agency Development egional R funded through the Lancashire Rural Recovery Action Plan supported by the Northwest the by supported Plan Action Recovery Rural Lancashire the through funded t he space where the houses once were is now a now is were once houses the where space he his project received funding support from the Lancashire Rural Tourism Initiative, which is which Initiative, Tourism Rural Lancashire the from support funding received project his T to pay agricultural tithes to the established church and and church established the to tithes agricultural pay to oet h epeo h ilg n urudn ra In area. surrounding and village the of people the to done h ouse, now the Methodist Chapel.The Quakers refused Quakers Chapel.The Methodist the now ouse, devastation caused by the flood, no serious harm was harm serious no flood, the by caused devastation t imes a year. a imes A lso in the 17th century, the Quakers built a meeting a built Quakers the century, 17th the in lso p ossessions. Remarkably, despite the scale of the of scale the despite Remarkably, ossessions. I siuebcmstelclcnm TeWa lx several Flix’ Wray ‘The cinema local the becomes nstitute t he loss of houses, bridges, livestock, vehicles, and personal and vehicles, livestock, bridges, houses, of loss he chimneys and staircases. and chimneys in Wray, check out events held at the Wray Institute.The Wray the at held events out check Wray, in t he river Roeburn left a trail of destruction that resulted in resulted that destruction of trail a left Roeburn river he stone built houses that you can see today with proper with today see can you that houses built stone routes www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/cycling.Whilst routes I n 1967, a flash flood of incredible speed and ferocity in ferocity and speed incredible of flood flash a 1967, n ladders leading to lofts were replaced by two storey two by replaced were lofts to leading ladders t his website to plan your excursions and download cycle download and excursions your plan to website his and the Scarecrow festival Scarecrow the and t he old houses with dry stone walls, thatched roofs and roofs thatched walls, stone dry with houses old he many excellent cycle routes in and around Lancaster.Visit around and in routes cycle excellent many a nd later on some weaving industry. In the 17th century, 17th the In industry. weaving some on later nd L une valley. It is on the Lancashire cycleway and there are there and cycleway Lancashire the on is It valley. une The Wray Flood of 1967 of Flood Wray The W ray gained a fulling mill for treating woven wool cloth wool woven treating for mill fulling a gained ray W ray is popular with cyclists and walkers exploring the exploring walkers and cyclists with popular is ray g wing steadil wing ro y and increasing in prosperity. in increasing and y world war, improvements to road transport led to Wray to led transport road to improvements war, world gained a public Institute. In the time following the 2nd the following time the In Institute. public a gained f e y not visit www visit not y wh then stival .wr a yvillage.co.uk? continued at Hornby. at continued and the railway was built. After the First World War,Wray World First the After built. was railway the and Da y Bank Holida Bank y y .To see more about Wray and the and Wray about more see .To contrast to the tradesmen and manufacturers who manufacturers and tradesmen the to contrast building. A reading room and coffee house were set up set were house coffee and room reading A building. event lasts a week and culminates in a fair on the May the on fair a in culminates and week a lasts event century,Wray was established as a farming community in community farming a as established was century,Wray low point of Wray.The school was rehoused in a new a in rehoused was school Wray.The of point low hoping to win the top prize from the judges.The whole judges.The the from prize top the win to hoping ‘upgraded’ to a town by the Lord of Hornby in the 12th the in Hornby of Lord the by town a to ‘upgraded’ The great agricultural depression of the 1880s was the was 1880s the of depression agricultural great The completed in secrecy and displayed at the last moment last the at displayed and secrecy in completed planned and planted settlement.When Hornby was Hornby settlement.When planted and planned year there is a different theme and scarecrows are often are scarecrows and theme different a is there year poor and rough village at that time. that at village rough and poor Roeb urn river and meaning ‘corner’ in Norse, was a was Norse, in ‘corner’ meaning and river urn omnt prtadrslec ftelclvlaes Every villagers. local the of resilience and spirit community of Quakers and Methodists,Wray was on the whole a whole the on was Methodists,Wray and Quakers of Wray, taking its name from the steep sided crook in the in crook sided steep the from name its taking Wray, thousands of visitors each year and demonstrates the demonstrates and year each visitors of thousands industry rather than farming. Despite the good influence good the Despite farming. than rather industry The History of Wray of History The The renowned Scarecrow Festival and Fair attracts tens of tens attracts Fair and Festival Scarecrow renowned The wards manufacturing wards to village the and them led this How to find us FOREST OF Public Transport: Check Traveline 0870 608 2 608 or www.transportforlancashire.com for travel information. BOWLAND The nearest station is at Wennington, 1.5 miles away, which is on the Leeds to Morecambe line. Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Travel Information for the FOB can be found on The Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural www.forestofbowland.com Beauty (AONB) is a nationally protected landscape and By Road: Wray is approximately 10 miles from Lancaster WELCOME TO internationally important for its heather moorland, blanket taking the A683 towards Kirkby Lonsdale before branching bog and rare birds. It is the first protected area in England off on the B6480 towards Bentham, Clapham and Settle. WRAY to be awarded the European Charter for Sustainable Horton-in-Ribblesdale 6 iver r Station Local Information, Attractions, R Ke e A A687 83 River Greta A6 35a B 6 4 4 er 5 e 2 7 K 6 9 er B iv R Carnforth 35 A Tourism in Protected Areas. The Charter approach 65 Activities and Accommodation B6254 WenningtonWennington 6 R M iv e r W 6480 en B ning R i B v 6 e 4 r 8 R enn i River W in 0 b g b ensures that organisations, local people and businesses are Clapham le Station e 480 n B6 u L Hindb r River u e rn 05 iv 51 R A Wray R i v e r working together to protect the area, whilst at the same 3 R B 8 o 6 6 e A 48 A b 6 0 u 5 r n Bare Lane A 6 B B 5 2 34 4 7 7 5 52 B 3 68 A B Settle time increasing opportunities for visitors to discover and 5 3 2 1 Giggleswick 9 7 4 Station 6 B A B 5273 Lanca5 ster 89 Lancaster 5 0 ver Cond 1 Ri er enjoy its special qualities. Sustainable tourism aims to 5 A 3 8 A A6 6 Heysham dder Ho A er 6 Riv 5 r make a low impact on the environment and local culture, e nd Co er iv R Long Preston Hellifield B 64 while encouraging better income, employment and 78 B A6 3 529 8 5 0 2 2 A 6 65 B T T T T o o o s yre s s River W s i i Riv d d er Rib e e ble C a R B n iv e a e c l r C r k o n d e 33 L a conservation of the very landscape upon which our A n c 5 a 8 s t 8 e r C a n a l Lancaster A 6 (Forton) S B S 6478 tourism is based. e r y er W Riv k 2 c 8 e 6 B A 9 e A5 id s s o For more information regarding the Forest of Bowland T B 5 2 7 2 ble B B r Rib 625 52 Totridge ive 1 70 R 52 62 B B 6 59 4 A B 7 A5 8 5 588 AONB, visit the website at www.forestofbowland.com3 7 7 B 6 3 8 3 7 8 B5409 5 A A A La 6 5 n r 8 or ring 01772 531473 for an information leaflet.8 c e 2 A a 5 s ld 6 t e a r B C 6 er 4 iv R C C 3 C 0 a n a l River Hodder B B54 5 12 4 6 3 8 5 9 A re k The businesses featured here are part of the y roc W B er ver Clitheroe Riv Ri 3 4 9 B 2 5 6 A 5 B 2 6 8 A586 4 8 Bowland AONB B 7 5 624 B 8 A ClitheA roe 5 8 Colne 2 6 5 6 local economy which supports this special 7 A 7 8 1 6 Poulton-le-Fylde 0 6 Station A B 5 1 2 6 4 A5 13 5 9 B6 526 526 B6243 24 B5 Layton B B6 8 9 6 3 2 06 6 24 46 A6 52 B5269 B6 landscape - please support them with your B 2 68 Nelson 69 A 2 B A 12 5 6 A 6 B 2 5 4 8 8 A 5 5 8 6 Whalley Station k l © Crown copyright.
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