Things to do

A lovely leather-bound folder in each cottage holds extensive details of local activities, places to go and things to see.  But just as a taster, why don’t you … 

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The Great Outdoors

Learn how to fly fish and take a trout home for tea. Play a leisurely 18 holes or admire the glorious countryside on horseback. Walk along the Ribble Way or follow one of our featured walks stopping on the way at a welcoming inn for a well-deserved lunch.

Some ideas:

• Pendle View Fisheries
• Stocks Fly Fishing at Stocks Reservoir
• Broomhill Equestrian Centre
• Mytton Fold Golf Course
• Pendle Balloon Flights over the Trough of Bowland
• Family Cycle Routes in PDF format
• Cycling activities from Forest of Bowland website
• Walking Information from FellScape.co.uk
• Walking Information from Forest of Bowland website
• Bird Watching Information from Forest of Bowland website
• Cowman's Famous Sausage Shop & Butcher
• Cycle Adventure - Cycle Hire and Tours

For a bit of culture

Let the impressive Stonyhurst fire your imagination as it did JRR Tolkien's. Visit National Trust properties such as nearby Gawthorpe Hall. Stand in the dock where the Pendle Witches were tried at Lancaster Castle or visit Hoghton Tower where James I knighted the loin of beef ?sirloin?. Watch the noisy, working looms weave cotton in the museums of East Lancashire and imagine life as a factory worker in a by-gone age.

Some ideas:

• Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
• Clitheroe Castle
• Lancaster Castle
• Skipton Castle
• Blackburn Cathedral
• The British Commercial Vehicle Museum
• Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham
• Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Ripon
• Hoghton Tower

Family Fun

Visit Bowland Wild Boar Park and take a ride on a tractor, feed the lambs at Hesketh Park Farm, emulate John Terry at the National Football Museum in Preston or hire a mountain bike and race through nearby Gisburn Forest.

Some ideas:

• Embsay and Bolton Steam Railway
• Hesketh Farm Park
• Ski Rossendale ? one of the country?s largest ski and snowboard centres
• Ribchester Roman Museum
• National Football Museum, Preston
• Bowland Wild Boar Park, Chipping
• Bowland Cycle Hire, Slaidburn

Shopping

Watch organic cheese being made in a traditional family business and then take some home for supper. Sample the delights at the local farmers market or learn how to make beer at our local microbrewery. The town centres of Preston and Blackburn are just 30 minutes away and the extensive shopping in Manchester just an hour away.

Some ideas:

• The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
• Bashall Barn, Bashall Eaves
• Leagram Organic Dairy, Chipping
• Ribble Valley Farmer?s Market
• Melt @ Backridge, Waddington
• D Byrne's Wine Merchant
• Roy Porter Butcher, Chatburn
• Cownman's famous Sauasge Shop and Butcher

We are happy to supply any contact details you might want or help you choose activities for during your stay.  Just send us an e mail or give us a call.