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National Trail Guides UK
NATIONAL TRAIL GUIDES UK
Contents :: PENDLE WAY :: Day 2
THE PENDLE WAY IS A WONDERFULLY BEAUTIFUL TRAIL OF HISTORY
Day 2 :: Hottest Day Yet :: Barnoldswick to Laneshaw Bridge:: 11.3 miles
We passed through a stile to another field where we walked to our left and onto the main road, where we again turned left and walked along the front of the Rolls Royce buildings. Crossing the road we took a stile into a wooded area and walked uphill along a narrow track between trees which then opened out into a field. Over the crest of the hill the field leveled out and we passed through an electric fence to the end of another field where we crossed a stone step stile over a stone wall leading to another enclosed narrow track. Where it forked we kept right and came out in the grave yard of St Mary-le-Gill church.
We followed the track around the church until at a set of black gates near the front our route took us along a narrow track along a wall to our left, which in turn took us down to a languid stoney stream. We crossed the stream, and climbed the opposite bank to a golf course. We walked straight across to a plantation of trees, and skirting this cut across another section of the golf course and took the obvious path through a large stand of conifers, to emerge onto a grass field. We followed a faint grassy track in the direction of Thornton in Craven, passing over a stile to the next field, which ended at an inconspicuous gap in the trees at the far end, where we crossed a stile and followed a very narrow and overgrown track to our right and down to the main road.
On the opposite side of the road was Thornton church. We kept on the same side of the road, walking for about 30 yards, crossed a small wooden stile to a field and then walked up a trodden path in the grass to the crest of the hill and we then crossed another stile to another field and walked diagonally across it to the corner of a sectioned off caravan area and there found a stile to a farm track and a series of stiles through fields. As I was slowly passing through a gate stile Carol ran at me with a frightened look on her face, as she attempted to hurry me out of the stile. She almost pushed me through in her hurry to get beyond the stile. And then I saw her reason. A woolly llama was running at us, not menacingly, but Carol was so surprised to see it she had been startled.
We stopped to stroke it awhile and then continued by crossing a meadow diagonally, keeping right of a bend in a road to our left. This was a long meadow, but eventually we crossed a stile away from it and entered another meadow and, passing between cattle, crossed a small stream at a bridge and then crossed a gate stile to the field beyond. We followed a grass track through the centre of this to a wooden stile and veered to our left across a lush meadow.
This took us to a couple of gate stiles each side of a track leading to a cottage on our right. We passed across and shortly came to another gate stile taking us to a rough field. We crossed this diagonally downhill aiming for a man and his dog near to a stile at the bottom. All awhile the sun beamed its light and heat upon us, birds chattered all around and the pleasant lowing of cattle seranaded us. We passed the stile and followed another grassy track diagonally across the next field until reaching a stone wall. We followed this to our right until reaching a gate stile that took us to a lane outside of an attractive church in Earby. We followed the lane to our right, downhill, to meet the main road. Crossing this we entered School Lane which we walked along, noting the Museum of Yorkshire Dales Lead mining on our left. the museum was quite unique from outside with its large painted water wheel. Carol wanted to walk around the museum, but I thought we did not have enough time, particularly as Carol would be there for hours, reading every label and detail, and so we continued without a rest.
We turned right at the bottom of the road and took a path that led along a busy road between commercial buildings. This led to Water Street, which we walked along for some time, it eventually forking to the left and then changed to Red Lion Street. At the top of the street was the Red Lion Inn. We continued for some way until after rounding a bend we passed the Earby Youth Hostel on our left. About 70 yards further up the hill we left the road to take a track on our right.
The track was enclosed within a stone wall on our left and a hedgerow on our right. It soon finished at a lane, where we turned left and almost immediately crossed to a stile leading to a field, and then walked through some open metal gates and continued on the track ahead, with cattle on the open pasture to our right. The track eventually petered out and we crossed through some rough moorland sedges, between cattle to obtain the next field stile.
This took us to the left of a farm and through the centre of a very small abandoned quarry. We then carried on to a gate and passed through to the field beyond. We continued until reaching a fence and then walked alongside the fence for a fair distance. It was round about this time when we realised how hungry we were and decided to stop for dinner. At this point there was very good view back to Earby, and in fact in most directions. Unbelievably there was a bench which could have meant eating in comfort, but unfortunately there were a couple of hikers sitting on it, so we decided to stop later on instead.
We crossed to a stile beside a gate and then through a field were there was evidence of Ridge and Furrows on our left. We passed to a gate into another field and crossed this to another stile beside a gate and onto a narrow enclosed track which took us to a lane. We turned left and walked uphill for ages. Near the top of the lane we stopped for lunch. After a fairly short respite we resumed and walked to the top of the lane and then crossed to a gate on our right and then passed through several large fields on grassy tracks, mostly with cattle scattered around the path.
On our right was a clough running parallel to us. Direction finding here was very difficult and at times we had to use a pair of binoculars to sight a Pendle Way sign. The fields gradually turned to rough pasture. We followed the track to a stone wall, where we turned left and then crossed a stile in the wall to a field and stream. We crossed the steam over a crude and hardly necessary footbridge and walked uphill for about 200 yards and then found a sign telling us to turn left and into the trees that were marching up the hill a little ahead of us.
Near to the woodland we crossed a stile into a field and then took a track towards a cottage. We passed through the cottage drive and left its grounds via a footbridge just right of the drive, and that led to Scald Bank Farm. We then contoured a hillside en route to the farm and passed through a stile in a wall. As we reached the farm we noticed an open hen house beside the main building. We walked around the left of the farm to join a farm track and walked left and uphill and left the track at a stile just over to the right.
We followed another path across a field and up to a wall and then steeply uphill to a stile beside a gate. Here we could see the pub known as Black Lane Ends at the far side of a field. We hurriedly crossed the field and called into the pub to acquire a pint each of blackcurrant and lemonade. As we walked into the pub all the locals sitting around the bar and chatting together hushed and turned round to look at us. There was silence for about 5 seconds, and then everyone just carried on as before.
Leaving the pub we turned left along the road and almost straight away took the lane on our right. After about half a mile we turned into the track leading to Knarrs End Farm and followed this for some distance, rounding a bend with conifers and then passing over a cattle grid. Another 200 yards further on, where the lane curved to the left our track lay ahead, uphill beside a stone wall, to the triangulation point on Knarrs Hill.
We crossed a stone step stile here and followed the wall on the opposite side to a ladder stile that led to a field which we cut across diagonally to our right, aiming for a prominent stand of trees above Knarrs Farm. We climbed a stile over a wall into the centre of the trees, with the farm to our left, and walked through the trees and down to the farm track.
We followed the drive to the first left bend and left it, taking a rough track towards Earl Hall. We followed a track beside a wall, crossed a farm track, and walked to the right of the farm (or hall). We then crossed an open field diagonally until reaching a stone wall, which we followed between rough moorland sedges, through which we prevailed, to reach a stile at the end. We then crossed another field and then a stream via a modest wooden footbridge.
Walking on we followed a stone wall for about 50 yards and then crossed it via a stile. We crossed to another rough field and followed a grassy track through it to another footbridge over the stream. This led to a stile over a stone wall and a track beside an elevated riverbank lined with trees and then to another wall stile.
