Wycoller Recording Barns

The archaeology group took some old fashioned film photos of Wycoller and Barrowford barns during Spring and early Summer. They used film because it captures the huge tonal range of barn interiors better than digital. Here is a selection of barns built in the 1600s and early 1700s.

Great Outdoors

The Hills and Moors There are some great hill walks across Pendle Hill or on any of the surrounding moors such as Great Hameldon which lies between Accrington and Burnley, Darwen Moor and Tower, south of Blackburn, and, Boulsworth Hill, east of Nelson. Experience the wind in you hair and the sound of the moorland …

Excavations

  We normally excavate once or twice a year. Our current site concerns an ancient settlement called Craggs which lieson the slopes of Pendle Hill above the village of Sabden. Other  excavations, include a medieval bloomery (iron smelting furnace) at Sabden Fold in Goldshaw Booth, just north of Burnley and a Georgian hot house in …

Heritage in the Press – May

Here is a selection of May’s heritage stories… Clitheroe launches new town trail New Great War book looks at village of Earby Whalley Abbey: well worth a visit this summer How the Civic Trust saved Burnley Wood School Haworth Art Gallery Stables set to become art studio Wycoller is a real gem to visit

Archaeological Report on Bracken Hill Barn

Just to update people, the report on Bracken Hill Barn, Wycoller, nr. Colne is now being being written and will be published shortly. On 18th June and 2nd July we have two survey days to make further progress.  In addition to the barns sheephouses will also be surveyed.

Blackburnshire

Pendle Heritage is about the heritage of the old Hundred of Blackburn, also known as Blackburnshire. Stretching from Blackburn in the west to Colne in the east, Clitheroe in the north to Rawtenstall in the south, its towns and countryside are built on five centuries of clothmaking and a thousand years of cattle and sheep …

Conservation

Pendle Heritage seeks to conserve the Pendle area through heritage advice and writing trails and volunteering. Over the years we have helped owners and enthusiasts with heritage information and advice. We have helped to conserve historic Wycoller and  interpret  the clothiers houses, weavers cottages, packhorse bridges, ancient stone gate posts and walls for visitors.