B Walk - Pendleton, near Clitheroe with Stuart Arnold
7½ miles (12km) with 600ft (183m) Total Ascent
Meet at Pendleton Village (Sat Nav: BB7 1PX), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.
The walk will start from the car park next to the Swan with Two Necks pub in Pendleton. This is a free car park but donations are expected for its upkeep by the villagers.
We will walk past the pub bearing in mind that we will return here later in the day. We will walk up the road and past Pendleton Hall carrying on along the track towards Mearley Hall. Here we will head onto the lower reaches of Pendle hill passing Howcroft Barn before reaching the road for a short distance past the ski slope and going back onto the fell by the Well Springs pub. The track then leads us back onto the road at the Nick of Pendle. Down the road towards Sabden for 200yds we reach a bridleway on the RHS which leads us past Parsley Barn and Wilkins Hey to a point where we head to Jeppe’s Grave the resting place of a highwayman, on the site of a Bronze Age burial site, who was beheaded in 1327 for his sins. We then go back across the fell to the Nick of Pendle were we start our descent back to the start via Wymondhouses.