Today a dear friend, Ann, who lives in Sydney, arranged for me to meet up with her brother, Paul, who is a Lancashire local. He kindly introduced me to some lovely parts of Lancashire I would not be able to experience without a car. The beautiful countryside. We drove through the tiny roads through villages, exactly like the travel shows and movies, with dry walls, sheep, lovely farm houses and green fields or moors.
Stopped off at a couple of pubs, one of which the Pendle Hill. This area is famed for witches. There is a steep walk up a hill to a “Bronze Age” burial site at the top of the hill. Unfortunately by the time we got there is was getting too dark to climb the 557 metre “hill”. One of it’s claim to fame is the Pendle Hill witch trials in 1612
One of my favourite stops was the Top Lock at Wheelton. There is a pub at the end of the Lock which is on the Liverpool Leeds Canal. I love the barges on the canals in England. I hope I get the opportunity to stay on one.
Ye Old Hob Inn was built in 1616 with its original thatched roof and infamous history of the Battle of Bamber Bridge. People in the 1600s must have been short as the roof is so low!!
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