FREE PROGRAMME Includes Family Friendly Walks Follow us or Tweet us @VisitPendle Follow us on facebook © Photography by John Manning, John Mills, Andy Ford, David Whipp, Lee Johnson, David Penney Mark Tattersall. Graphic Design by The Communication Team, Pendle Borough Council iJb 11471 4/2015 The Festival Launch Website & Social Media key to symbols Pendle Walking The festival will be launched at the WEB The festival programme is Festival… Aisled Barn at Wycoller Country Park available as a download at www. on Saturday 15th August at visitpendle.com be part of it! 10am followed by a number of walks FACEBOOK You can also keep up to choose from. The Festival will be to date with walking festival news on Welcome to the UK’s largest launched by The Mayor of Pendle, Facebook page free walking festival! The Councillor Nawaz Ahmed. TWITTER Tweet us your pictures annual Pendle Walking and opinions of the festival using @ Dogs welcome Accommodation & Travel Well behaved dogs on leads Festival has put the area VisitPendle A wide range of quality inspected are welcome. Dogs are not allowed on walks not firmly on the map as a accommodation is available in Pendle. fantastic destination for Other Walking Festivals in showing this symbol. Please call our visitor information the area everyone to come and enjoy Country pubs or cafés centres for our accommodation guide or Witton Weavers Way Walking the great outdoors. visit www.visitpendle.com. They will also These walks will visit one Festival of our country pubs or a help you with your travel plans. June 14th – 27th 2015 café for a short refreshment This year the event forms part of The www.blackburn.gov.uk break during or after the Great Pendle Summer Festival, which Visitor Information Centres walk. features the Great British Rhythm & Discover Pendle Centre South Pennines Walk & Ride Lunch stop Blues Festival on August Bank Holiday 01282 856186 Festival No need to bring your and the Pendle Cycling Festival, sarnies! We will stop at a Pendle Heritage Centre 12th – 27th September 2015 including the Tour of Britain, the week pub or café for a light meal 01282 677150 Some of this year’s Transport Bookings after. www.walkandridefestival.co.uk during or after the walk. County Information Centre highlights All our walks are free but for some This year the festival is a bit earlier 01282 698533 Garstang Walking Festival History walks Just forty years after the world linear walks we provide transport to and falls within the summer school These walks will focus on famous Pendle Witches Trial, visionary take you back to your start point. The holidays. So we’ve a number of easy 8th – 15th May 2016 the history of the area. What to bring on the walk George Fox climbed Pendle Hill in cost for the transport is listed below. family friendly walks to enjoy. For www.visitwyre.co.uk/events Please wear suitable footwear and Push chair friendly 1652, which inspired him to found the Please book beforehand, sooner younger children or people who prefer clothing for outdoor walking. These walks follow stile-free Quaker Movement. You too can follow rather than later, because spaces are an easier walk, the family friendly walks West Lancashire Walking Festival paths and are suitable for Pendle’s weather can be wet so his journey of revelation on the special limited. This will also give you a better are easy or moderate, and most are 1st - 14th August 2015 robust chairs. please bring waterproofs. It’s important Pendle Quaker Trail on the second chance to book the accommodation fairly short. www.westlancs.gov.uk to remember to bring food and Packed lunch Saturday of the festival. An inspired you need. Young families with children who plenty of water. More information on Please bring a packed Mathematician, Jonas Moore, founder complete any three of these walks to For other events in Lancashire, you lunch. walking safely is available from www. of (Greenwich Mean) Time, who was Lancashire Witches Walk enter our Billy the Badger competition can check out www.visitlancashire. ramblers.org.uk under the ‘Advice’ born here in Pendle, features on (Walks 2, 18, 31 and 47) £37 per (inside back cover). Older children may com. Booking essential section. Please book and pay for another walk. person (one stage £10). Preference want to join us on some of our longer or these walks on 01282 Inspirational countryside can also will be given to those wanting to book more challenging walks! 856186 or call into the be seen around the only remaining all of the stages on this walk. We’ve plenty of walks that will appeal Walk grading Discover Pendle Centre at Clarion House in Britain, which Miles and Miles Without stiles to people of all ages from very easy to Easy – A easy paced walk with only Boundary Mill. features on three walks. The house is (Walk 10) £10 per person something more strenuous. Just take gentle slopes (1 – 4 miles) Three Peaks just below the picturesque village of Pendle Marathon (Walk 39) £10 a look through our programme and These walks go to the Newchurch, under Pendle Hill. per person. pick your favourites! Some of the most Moderate – An easy paced walk summit of Pendle, If you’d like a challenge we have All bookings on a first come first stunning countryside views in the whole over varied terrain with some hilly Boulsworth and/or Weets Hill - Pendle’s three Peaks. the newest long distance walk in the served basis. Please book of Lancashire await you. sections (3 – 7 miles) country, the Lancashire Witches Walk and pay for your transport Come and be a part of it! Healthy Lifestyles and a Pendle Three Peaks Challenge by phoning Hard – A slightly faster paced walk Walks in one day! The latter takes in the wild 01282 856186. with varied terrain and hills (7 – 10 Walks run by Healthy Lifestyles. moorland of Boulsworth Hill, Weets miles) www.pendleleisuretrust. with views of Ingleborough, and the co.uk classic climb up the legendary Pendle Very Hard – A varied all-day walk Family Fiendly Walks hill. covering longer distances Children who complete Complete the challenge and we’ll (10+ miles) three of these walks can reward your efforts with our now win a prize (see back page). Children must be famous Certificates of Achievement! accompanied by an adult. Saturday 15th August 3. Walking the transport Grid Ref: SD933391 tracks Map Ref: B 1. A playground with ducks Post Code: BB8 8SU to feed Be prepared for some steep 7 miles - Moderate - 10am sections and tricky terrain on the Meet at War Memorial, Foulridge walk up to the rocks at Foster’s 2 miles - Easy - 9am (A56, opposite the Hare and Leap. Meet at Barrowford Park pond Hounds) Leader: Martyn Pashley Grid Ref: SD860397 Grid Ref: SD890421 Tel. 07881 507245 Map Ref: M Map Ref: J Post Code: BB9 6JQ Post Code: BB8 7JY 6. Wycoller and Knarrs Hill A stroll along the canal and across We look at the transport of a the river starting with feeding the bygone era along the Leeds and ducks and ending at the playground. Liverpool Canal, the old coach- 6 miles - Moderate - 10.30am Leader: Mark Wakeman roads and the disused Colne to Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Tel. 07974 783009 Skipton Railway. Country Park Leader: Norman Mitchell Grid Ref: SD933391 2. Lancashire Witches Walk Tel. 07549 164739 Map Ref: B then a steep walk down into the We travel by bus to the long Leader: Mark Chung Day 1 - Barrowford to Post Code: BB8 8SU picturesque village of Downham for causeway near Burnley and follow Tel. 07803 299467 Read 4. Miles without stiles We follow the Pendle Way and lunch before returning to Barley by a section of the Pennine Bridleway Pennine Bridleway to enjoy the field paths. National Trail north back to Earby. 13. Trigonometry views from the craggy hill top of Leader: Kath Haydock Call 01282 856186 to book. 14.5 miles - Very Hard - 9am 4 miles - Easy - 10.30am Knarrs Hill. Tel. 07930 194474 Leader: Shirley Northcott Meet at Pendle Heritage Centre Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Leader: Mark Roper Tel. 01772 741376 3 miles - Easy - 11am Grid Ref: SD863398 Country Park Tel. 07979 701216 9. Lumb Spout Waterfall Meet at Upper Ball Grove car Map Ref: M Grid Ref: SD933391 11. Clarion Call park, Colne Post Code: BB9 6JQ Map Ref: B 7. By the side of Boulsworth Grid Ref: SD908403 Over four days we will walk to Post Code: BB8 8SU 3 miles - Easy - 3pm Map Ref: N Lancaster Castle in the footsteps A look at the Wycoller valley to Meet at Trawden Community 7 miles - Moderate - 10.30am Post Code: BB8 7HZ of the Lancashire Witches and look discover its history whilst avoiding 8 miles - Hard - 10.30am Centre (opposite the Trawden Meet at Barley car park A gentle walk through fields and at the history of their trial and stiles. Meet at Aisled Barn, Wycoller Arms) Grid Ref: SD823403 along Colne Water visiting the most execution for witchcraft. A bus will Leader: Roger Cunliffe Country Park Grid Ref: SD911388 Map Ref: D oddly placed trig point in Pendle – meet us at Read for the return to Tel. 07773 694350 Grid Ref: SD933391 Map Ref: N Post Code: BB12 9LD and possibly even Britain! Barrowford. Call 01282 856186 to Map Ref: B Post Code: BB8 8RZ A walk to the last Clarion House in Leader: John Belbin book. 5. Foster’s Leap Post Code: BB8 8SU A walk to Lumb Spout and the the country.