Forest Of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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Description

The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells, is an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England with a small part in North Yorkshire (before 1974, some of the area was in the West Riding of Yorkshire). It is a western spur of the Pennines and was once described as the "Switzerland of England". The Forest of Bowland has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) since 1964. The Forest of Bowland AONB also includes a detached part known as the Forest of Pendle separated from the main part by the Ribble Valley, and anciently a forest with its own separate history. One of the best-known features of the area is Pendle Hill, which lies in Pendle Forest. There are more than 500 listed buildings and 18 scheduled monuments within the AONB.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Anna Lane
  • Back Lane
  • Clerk Hill Road
  • Cross Fold
  • Four Acre Lane
  • Green Lane
  • Hays Lane
  • Kiln Lane
  • Lane Head
  • Lune Valley Ramble
  • Monubent Lane
  • Ouster Rake
  • Pendleton Road
  • Ribble Way
  • Sandy Bridge
  • Snape Rake lane
  • Whinny Lane
  • Written Stone Lane
  • Wyre Way

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Abbey Farm
  • Apple Store Cafe
  • Baxton Fell
  • Bayley Arms
  • Beacon Fell
  • Beacon Hill
  • Birkett Fell
  • Bowland Visitor Centre
  • Brennand Great Hill
  • Bridge House
  • Brock Bottoms
  • Brookhouse Village Store
  • Buck Hill
  • Bull Beck Snack Bar
  • Burn Fell
  • Burnmoor
  • Burnslack Fell
  • Cabin Hill
  • Calder Fell
  • Caton Moor
  • Caton Moor Picnic Site
  • Clarion House
  • Clougha Pike
  • Cobble Hey
  • Coppy Hill
  • Crag Stones
  • Cross Lane Caravan and Camping Park
  • Dalesbridge
  • Downham Post Office and Tea Rooms
  • Duckpit Hill
  • Easington Fell
  • Fair Snape Fell
  • Fell view
  • Fiendsdale
  • Gisburn Forest Hub
  • Gray's Seat
  • Great Stone of Fourstones
  • Greave Clough Head
  • Greendale
  • Greenside Hill
  • Grit Fell
  • Grizedale Head
  • Halton Hill
  • Hareden Fell
  • Hawkshead
  • Hawthornthwaite Fell Top
  • Hazelhurst Fell
  • Higher Wheathead
  • Hodder Bank Fell
  • Hollin Top
  • Hornby Post Office and Tearoom
  • Knots Wood Hill
  • Knotteranum
  • Littledale Scout Camp
  • Londis
  • Longridge Fell
  • Low Fell
  • Luddock's Fell
  • Lune Valley IT Centre
  • Mallowdale Pike
  • Marl Hill
  • Marl Hill ?
  • Mellor Knoll
  • Middle Knoll
  • New Parkside Farm
  • Nicky Nook
  • Paddys Pole
  • Parlick
  • Peacock Hill
  • Pendle Hill
  • Potts Hill
  • Puddleducks Cafe PO and Village Store
  • Roeburndale Camping Barn
  • Sanwitches Cafe
  • Scarthwaite Country House Hotel
  • Simpshey Hill
  • Slaidburn Archive
  • Stake House Fell
  • Standridge Hill
  • Stang Top Moor
  • Staple Oak Fell
  • Stony Hill
  • Sullom
  • Sykes Nab
  • The Barley Mow
  • The Co-operative Food
  • The Cobbled Corner
  • The Copy Nook Hotel
  • The Cragg
  • The Duke of York
  • The Garden Kitchen
  • The Inn at Whitewell
  • The Knot/Sugar Loaf
  • The Priory
  • The Red Pump Inn
  • The Spread Eagle
  • Throstle Hall Country Cottage
  • Top of Blaze Moss
  • Totridge Fell
  • Turn Head
  • Village Store
  • Waddecar Scout Camp
  • Waddington Fell
  • Ward's Stone
  • Wellsprings
  • Whelpstone Cafe Bar
  • Whelpstone Crag
  • Whins Brow
  • White Hill
  • Winney Bank
  • Wiswell Moor
  • Wolfen Mill Country Retreats
  • Wolfhole Crag
  • Woodies Snack Bar
  • Wooly Hill
  • Yorkshire Dales Falconry Centre And Hawk Experience

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Blisco https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ward%27s_Stone.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)