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Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 12.08 EDT When he climbed to the top of Pendle Hill in 1652, dissenter George Fox had a life-altering vision of the world calling for “a great people to be gathered”. Fox went on to found the Quakers. Most people are happy if they can see Blackpool Tower. On the Saturday I made it up there, banks of cloud to the west obscured the sea, but you could see all over North Yorkshire, as well as to Burnley and Colne and across to the wind farms of Ovenden Moor. Pendle Hill is one of the most beautiful lumps of rock in the British Isles. This will be stating the obvious to locals and regular visitors, but it’s worth putting on record, because, despite being born in Lancashire more than five decades ago, I’d never been up the hill until the recent May bank holiday. ....
Here is how you can delve into Bowland’s heritage this spring. THROUGH the Festival Bowland online events programme the Forest of Bowland AONB and Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership will be shining a light on two very different aspects of the area’s history this spring. On Tuesday, March 23, Burnley-based Mid Pennine Arts will be inviting people to “meet the Radicals”. The event will introduce some of the nonconformists, reformers and change makers researched by the volunteers of the Pendle Radicals project. During the early evening session viewers will encounter the first Quaker, plus a Higham boy who became a beacon of the Enlightenment, the pioneers of the Independent Labour Party and campaigners for women’s suffrage and for the right to roam. ....
Festival Bowland remembers radicals and delves into Sawley Abbey's history thevisitor.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thevisitor.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.