Pendle Hill and the Forest of Bowland

DISCOVER THE FOREST OF BOWLAND & PENDLE HILL    
Andy Stansfield

The Forest of Bowland is often by-passed by travellers heading north for the Lakes and Scotlandon the M6. Situated mostly in Lancashire except for its north-east corner which lies in Yorkshire, the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) covers 312 square miles. It consists of a core of wild moorland with a fringe of farmland and is drained by the Rivers Ribble, Hodder,Wyre and Lune.

Today, in addition to being of national and international importance for its wildlife, the Forest of Bowland is a major recreational resource for the towns north of Manchester. The single most popular resource, Beacon Fell Country Park (which includes Bowland Visitor Centre), attracts 260,000 visitors each year. Pendle Hill provides a more focused destination than Bowland, largely for ramblers and those wishing to tour the villages of the famous Pendle Witch Country.

Feature Chapters:

Chapter 1 Outstanding Natural Beauty

Chapter 2 Physical Geography

Chapter 3 Access and Recreation

Chapter 4 The Historic Landscape

Chapter 5 Rough Uplands and Fringe Farmland

Chapter 6 Steam Engines, Scarecrows and Hobbits

Chapter 7 Woodlands, Rivers and Reservoirs

Chapter 8 Bewitching Villages of Pendle Hill

Andy Stansfield is a Lancashire-based writer and photographer, originally from Manchester. He is primarily a photo-journalist, concentrating mostly on travel writing and photography for magazines, with France his speciality. He is a regular contributor to Destination France magazine and has had a wide variety of work published but this is his first book. Two more are now in progress, one on the Lake District and the other on photographing France.

Picnic in an ancient woodland setting by Marshaw Wyre

Bridge over Downham Beck

Example of a double page spread.

ISBN 1 84114 517 3     978 1 84114 517 4

Hardback, 144 pages,  230x214mm,  profusely illustrated in full  colour throughout

Normal Retail Price: £14.99

LBOL Price : £12.99

Published: 6^th November 2006

Wray Scarecrow Festival.

An imaginative likeness of a local witch outside Witches Galore at Newchurch in Pendle.