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The Crook O’ Lune, Part One; an Introduction

Part One, an Introduction The Crook o’ Lune is well-loved beauty spot on a sweeping bend of the river Lune, famous for its panoramic views up the wooded valley towards the distant moors. Locally very well-known it has been a destination for many generations of daytrippers, with a grassy green picnic site, river banks forContinue reading “The Crook O’ Lune, Part One; an Introduction”

Temperate Rainforests

Rainforest, but not as we know it Lofty green trees clad in lianas and vines, broad waxy leaves dripping with rainwater, howling and screeching monkeys and birds, the whine of flying insects and unbearable humidity, for most people the images these words conjure up are of the archetypal tropical rainforests, those vast, mysterious jungles ofContinue reading “Temperate Rainforests”

Gawthorpe Hall and Witches in Lancashire: Part Two, a reblog of an article by Lancashire Museum Stories

IMAGE 1: Witches on broomsticks, featured in The History of Witches and Wizards (1720). Copyright: Wellcome Library. In July 2024, Gawthorpe Hall … Gawthorpe Hall and Witches in Lancashire: Part Two.

The Pinnacle, Part One

Clitheroe is a small market town situated in the Ribble valley in Lancashire, famous for its small Norman castle which stands upon a prominent Limestone outcrop in the centre of the town, part of the Tournaisian Clitheroe Limestone Formation which protrudes through the landscape at a few locations in this part of the country. UnderContinue reading “The Pinnacle, Part One”

Tosside

The village of Tosside, originally known as Tosside-with-Houghton, is halfway between the farming village of Slaidburn and the market-town of Settle and split halfway between the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire (in the current, administrative sense that is). The name Tosside, pronounced locally as ‘Tossit’, comes from the Saxon words ‘tod’ for fox, a termContinue reading “Tosside”

Padiham Greenway, Part One

There are several thousand miles of closed railway lines around the British isles, many of which have been re-purposed as footpaths, bridle-ways and cycle-paths for the use of the public. Many of these were closed in the decades since the ‘Beeching cuts’ of the 60’s, when the incumbent Chairman of the British Railways Board, RichardContinue reading “Padiham Greenway, Part One”

Bee Boles

Bee holes are essentially holes built into a south-facing wall for placing bee-hives into, they usually date from before the 19th century, when modern, wooden bee-hives were made commercially available. Normally built into dry-stone walls but occasionally designed into brick walls, bee boles are almost always situated in a south-facing wall and usually accompanied aContinue reading “Bee Boles”