Save Wycoller campaign reaches national press
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5000 SIGN ‘SAVE WYCOLLER’ PETITION IN FIRST WEEK
LATEST – FIVE THOUSAND HAVE NOW SIGNED THE PETITION! The cutting of the entire Countryside budget would be less than 0.2% of the £262m savings that Lancashire County Council are required to make. It makes no sense to desolate Wycoller and the other country parks for such a minuscule amount! Wycoller on its own is …
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‘SAVE WYCOLLER’ PETITION
LATEST – FIVE THOUSAND HAVE NOW SIGNED THE PETITION! CLICK HERE TO SIGN Friends of Wycoller and Friends of Pendle Heritage have written to County Councillor Marcus Johnstone, Cabinet Member for Environment, Planning and Cultural Services, about the closure of the Countryside Management service, which will shut down Wycoller Country Park… Dear Councilor Johnstone, …
Winter comes to Wycoller
We’ve had such a warm autumn that the recent cold weather has caught us by surprise. The snow stuck at Wycoller and gave the place a cold gloomy romantic feel that the Bronte sisters would have loved! Wycoller hamlet and country park is Lancashire’s Bronte Country and is one of the places the Friends actively …
Wycoller wall is now fully repaired
The repair of the Wycoller Hall dividing wall has been successful. The ancient wall was damaged many years ago and its coping stones have sat in an unsightly pile in front of the hall for a very long time. The lime-mortar based repair and resetting of the coping stones were undertaken by the Countryside Service …
Tony Robinson – Walking through History – Wycoller Hall
If you missed it, you can still see Tony Robinson visiting the Wycoller Hall ruins in his Channel 4, Walking through History programme on the Bronte family – click here to open the page. Over 2013 and 2014, the Pendle Heritage conservation group re-opened the views to the Hall which had become blocked by saplings …
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Wycoller Hall site almost weed free
The site at the back of Wycoller Hall is now almost weed free following the spray in the Spring. I had a good meeting today with the Ranger, Sarah Dornan, discussing how the conservation group could best conserve the historic features there, while also trying to discover more about the mysterious walls, which appear to …
Planning Wycoller Events for 2015
Saturday 1st November was the Friends of Wycoller AGM and planning meeting for 2015, David M. attending on behalf of Pendle Heritage. It was a good positive meeting with plenty of events being planned for next year. Lancashire County Council were going to renovate Copy House and a new warden, Sarah, will be moving in …
Wycoller landscape project – Barns and Sheep Folds survey
Today, we had a wonderful time in brilliant sunhine checking out barns and at Parson Lee, Dean Clough and Bank House Farms and two lost sheep folds on the higher land east of Raven’s Rock Farm.
Wycoller Landscape Study, Recording Barns
Having recorded and measured the big barns, we are now looking at the smaller and often ruined structures.
Wycoller Landscape Study – Parson Lee Farm Barn
Five of us got together to have a close look at this extremely fine barn, which lies at an angle next to Parson Lee Farm. This is a mid-1700s double-pile farmhouse facing south. It contains a textile production room facing north.
Wycoller Landscape
The Wycoller Landscape is an ongoing archaeological study of Wycoller Country Park and the Trawden Landscape Conservation Area by Pendle Heritage. Wycoller Country Park has an exceptionally rich heritage. There are old clothiers houses, ancient bridges, gateposts and fields of ridge and furrow enclosed by medieval vaccary walls. Its many romantic associations include the Bronte …
Wycoller Monuments Project 10 – last meeting before Summer break
Our tenth and final meeting of this season was a rainy affair where we only got going after lunch. We began with a review of the work done this year and last and agreed that the setting of the various monuments and bridges is now much enhanced. We have steadily improved the immediate vicinity of …
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Wycoller Hall Excavation – 17th May
We had a great sunny Saturday, excavating to the rear of Wycoller Hall as part of the Wonders and Mysteries of Wycoller day. In the adjacent Aisled Barn there was an exhibition of our last dig at Wycoller, the site of the Georgian Hot House plus a collection of prehistoric finds by a member of …
Wycoller Monuments Project 9 – Getting ready for Saturday’s Excavation
The site at the rear of Wycoller Hall is coming along. In Autumn it was an inpenetrable wasteland of saplings, brambles and weeds, now it is a largely plant-free area that can be easily walked across.
Wycoller Monuments Project 8
It was good to meet up with the gang of volunteer wardens and Friends of Wycoller after having three weeks off. There was a slight sense of urgency as we began preparations for the ‘Wonders and Mysteries of Historic Wycoller’ event on 17th May, but not enough to stop us observing Blue Tits nesting via …
Wycoller Monuments Project 7
The Conservation Group met up again on 09/04/2014 to carry on the monuments project at Wycoller.
Wycoller Country Park Landscape Study – Recording Barns – 22nd March 2014
The weather forecast threatened heavy showers all day but 5 of us managed to sneak in a morning’s recording of the fascinating Bracken Hill Barn, which probably dates to the early 1600s.
Spring comes to Wycoller Hall
It was a warm morning and the ruins of Wycoller Hall almost breathed into life after the wet gloomy winter.
Wycoller Monuments Project 5 – 5th March
We had another good day at Wycoller working on the area behind the Hall.