Guidebook for Lancashire
Food Scene
Bernulfsuuic Rustic Traditional Restaurant
18-22 Rainhall RdGood food, nice environment
Arts & Culture
Live working mill steam engine on certain Sundays, still viewing on other days.
7 locals recommend
Bancroft Mill Engine Museum
Gillians LaneLive working mill steam engine on certain Sundays, still viewing on other days.
Plenty exhibits and artifacts. Local history including the Pendle witches. Cafe also.
Pendle Heritage Centre
Colne RoadPlenty exhibits and artifacts. Local history including the Pendle witches. Cafe also.
Sightseeing
Small village with a haunted ruined hall that was the inspiration for the scene of the fire in the end of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
Also 14th century river bridge and another single stone span bridge laid down in the 9th century using a neolithic standing stone.
There's a free museum, toilets and a cafe too.
14 locals recommend
Wycoller
Small village with a haunted ruined hall that was the inspiration for the scene of the fire in the end of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
Also 14th century river bridge and another single stone span bridge laid down in the 9th century using a neolithic standing stone.
There's a free museum, toilets and a cafe too.
Ruins of an early 12th century abbey. At the north entrance there is the life-sized carving of a broadsword on the threshold stone. Grass playground next door and a good pub too.
Sawley Abbey
Ruins of an early 12th century abbey. At the north entrance there is the life-sized carving of a broadsword on the threshold stone. Grass playground next door and a good pub too.
Village where the buildings' exteriors are preserved as they were over 200 years ago for filming of period dramas and that kind of thing.
14 locals recommend
Downham
Village where the buildings' exteriors are preserved as they were over 200 years ago for filming of period dramas and that kind of thing.
900 year old castle- big place in great condition that you can walk around.
61 locals recommend
Skipton Castle
900 year old castle- big place in great condition that you can walk around.
Ruined keep of 12th century castle with great 360 degree views of the Ribble Valley. There is a castle museum too.
43 locals recommend
Clitheroe Castle
Ruined keep of 12th century castle with great 360 degree views of the Ribble Valley. There is a castle museum too.
Entertainment & Activities
Mountain bike trails for all abilities through pine and deciduous forest. Also walking paths through the forest and around Stocks reservoir at the bottom of which is the flooded village of Stocks-in-Bowland.
13 locals recommend
Gisburn Forest Hub
Mountain bike trails for all abilities through pine and deciduous forest. Also walking paths through the forest and around Stocks reservoir at the bottom of which is the flooded village of Stocks-in-Bowland.
Parks & Nature
Near Grassington, Grass Wood is a beautiful place to walk, or picnic. The wood is large and stretches from the River Wharfe up to craggy tops and in one corner has the remains of a prehistoric settlement.
Grass Wood
Near Grassington, Grass Wood is a beautiful place to walk, or picnic. The wood is large and stretches from the River Wharfe up to craggy tops and in one corner has the remains of a prehistoric settlement.
Ingleton Waterfalls Trail
Long walk with plenty of waterfalls.
There are major cave systems under Ingleborough - 'the hollow mountain'. This is a show cave, all lit up and set up for visitors.
38 locals recommend
White Scar Cave
There are major cave systems under Ingleborough - 'the hollow mountain'. This is a show cave, all lit up and set up for visitors.
Unique geological feature: great limestone cliff through which runs a stream: very impressive sight and nice walk up from the village of Malham.
156 locals recommend
Malham Cove
Unique geological feature: great limestone cliff through which runs a stream: very impressive sight and nice walk up from the village of Malham.