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49-624: The Forest of Bowland , also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland , is an area of gritstone fells , deep valleys and peat moorland , mostly in north-east Lancashire , England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however roughly half of the area falls into the area of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire ). It is a western outlier of the Pennines . The Forest of Bowland

98-408: A Royal Forest and a liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost 300 square miles (800 km ) on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire . Dunsop Bridge developed into a village in the mid 19th century as a result of lead mining in the area. Before that, there were only a few isolated houses and farms. Thorneyholme House, close to

147-660: A plaque to explain its significance. The telephone box was unveiled by Sir Ranulph Fiennes . In BT's A1141 list of unique alphabetical Telephone Exchange codes, the code for Dunsop Bridge is DSB. The village is at the confluence of the River Dunsop and the River Hodder before the Hodder flows south to join the River Ribble outside Clitheroe . The bridge from which the village takes its name consists of two simple arches which span

196-511: A region of the British kingdom of Rheged , Bowland was absorbed into Northumbria in the 7th century. In turn, as Northumbrian influence waned, the westernmost areas of Bowland became part of Amounderness , a territory forged by the Norse hold Agmundr, a vassal of Eowils , Halfdan and Ingwaer , co-kings of Jorvik , in the early 10th century. In 926, Amounderness was annexed by Æthelstan , king of

245-657: A series of grid references over a ten-hour period. It raised funds for the Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team. Crafty Vintage Festive Markets take place every year in December within Wyresdale Park near to the village of Scorton . Nicky Nook Fell within Wyresdale Park hosts a road stage with spectator viewing zones along the route of the North West Stages car rally. Popular annual events held in

294-548: Is buried at St Hubert's. Considerable areas of the Bowland Fells were used for military training during the Second World War, and there are still unexploded bombs in some areas. The name "forest" is used in its traditional sense of "a royal hunting ground ", and rather than being covered by trees, much of the land is heather moorland and blanket bog . In the past wild boar , deer , wolves , wild cats and game roamed

343-562: Is formed largely from the succession of sandstones , mudstones and siltstones dating from the late Carboniferous period which constitute the Millstone Grit Group. Early Carboniferous rocks in the form of the limestones and associated rocks of the Craven and Bowland High groups underlie the area at depth and are exposed at the surface around its south-eastern margin. The succession in stratigraphic order (uppermost/youngest at top)

392-518: Is internationally important for its upland bird populations and under the Habitats Directive "Bowland Fells" has been designated a Special Protection Area (designated especially for breeding merlin and hen harrier ). Part of the land designated as Bowland Fells SSSI is owned by United Utilities . The hen harrier is the current symbol of the AONB, although originally this position was occupied by

441-587: Is often referred to as "God's own rock". The rough surface provides outstanding friction, enabling climbers to stand on or grip the subtlest of features in the rock. This article related to petrology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dunsop Bridge Dunsop Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Bowland Forest High , in the borough of Ribble Valley , Lancashire , England, 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Clitheroe , 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Lancaster and 24.5 miles (39 km) west of Skipton . Historically,

490-782: Is surrounded by the Yorkshire Dales and South Pennines , from which the fells are separated by the Aire Gap and Ribble Valley . The southern part of the Forest of Bowland is divided by the valley of the River Hodder. West of the river lies a tract of lowland dotted by limestone hills, such as the New Laund and Long Knott. East of the Hodder is a low-lying area known as the Lees. Nearby, higher up, are Browsholme Moor and Burholme Moor. The Forest of Bowland

539-523: Is this: The Ward's Stone Sandstone forms the peaks and hillsides of Clougha Pike, Ward's Stone, Tarnbrook Fell, Wolfhole Crag and Mallowdale Fell whilst the Dure Clough Sandstone forms White Hill, Great Harlow and Lythe Fell. The Brennand Grit forms Bowland Knotts, Great and Little Bull Stones, Whitendale Hanging Stones and parts of Brennand Fell. The Pendle Grit forms almost all of the fells south-west of

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588-557: The Norman Conquest , Bowland was held by Tostig , son of Godwin , Earl of Wessex . However, as feudal entities, the Forest and Liberty of Bowland were created by William Rufus sometime after Domesday and granted to his vassal Roger de Poitou , possibly to reward Poitou for his role in defeating the Scots army of Malcolm III in 1091–92. In all likelihood, it was this grant that subsumed

637-558: The Pennines (including the Peak District ) of northern England. These sediments were laid down in the late (upper) Paleozoic era, in the Carboniferous period, in deltaic conditions. The Millstone Grit Group is a formal stratigraphic term for this sequence of rocks. The gritstone edges of the Peak District are an important climbing area and the rock is much relished by English climbers , among whom it has almost cult status and

686-651: The Towneley family, claimed the title of 15th Lord of Bowland . Previously, the lordship had been thought lost or in the possession of the Crown having disappeared from the historical record in late 19th century. The Towneleys had owned the Bowland Forest Estate from 1835 and it transpired that the title had been retained by an extinct family trust. Lord O'Hagan sold the Lordship of Bowland at auction. The 16th Lord of Bowland

735-475: The geographic centre of Great Britain which is close to the Whitendale Hanging Stones, around four miles (6 km) north of Dunsop Bridge . The historical extent of Bowland Forest is divided into two large administrative townships, Great Bowland ( Bowland Forest High and Bowland Forest Low ) and Little Bowland ( Bowland-with-Leagram ), but the modern-day AONB covers a much larger area. Possibly

784-474: The goshawk , the 'queen of the Forest', a hawk that in medieval times was only permitted to be flown by nobility and therefore became emblematic of royal hunting forests such as Bowland. Because the hen harrier is under threat from illegal persecution in the Forest of Bowland and other upland areas of England, with none recorded breeding in England in 2013, this emblem was unofficially modified and adapted to represent

833-425: The 13th century, it had started to become a place of habitation by commoners , including tenant farmers , who had purchased their holdings from James I or Charles I. As farming increased, so did the populousness of the forest. Parks were created for the preservation of the remaining deer. It was one of many such surveys of Crown lands made by the government during the interregnum . The common result of these surveys

882-470: The AONB and surrounding countryside. There is a display on the ecology of the Forest of Bowland in Clitheroe Castle Museum . One mile to the west of Chipping is Bowland Forest Gliding Club , ICAO airport code GB-0339, which is used by winch-launched gliders . The Bowland Challenge was a fundraising event held from 2006 to 2009, and again in 2011, in which teams of walkers navigated around

931-511: The AONB. The Trough of Bowland is a pass connecting the valley of the Marshaw Wyre with that of Langden Brook , and dividing the upland core of Bowland into two main blocks. The hills on the western side of the Forest of Bowland attract walkers from Lancaster and the surrounding area. Overlooking Lancaster is Clougha Pike , the westernmost hill. The hills form a large horseshoe shape with its open end facing west. Clockwise from Lancaster

980-605: The Forest. In 2018 two nests were reported on land belonging to United Utilities. In 2020–22 the work of staff from Natural England and gamekeepers from the area's estates, monitored by the RSPB, showed further progress, with 22 hen harriers fledging in 2020, 31 in 2021 and at least 39 in 2022. Bowland is dominated by a central upland landform (generally above 1,200 feet (370 m) and rising to 1,700 feet (520 m)) of deeply incised gritstone fells covered with tracts of heather-covered peat moorland and blanket bog . The lower slopes of

1029-558: The Honor of Clitheroe was subsumed into the Earldom of Lancaster . Between 1351 and 1661, it was administered as part of the Duchy of Lancaster . By the late 14th century, Bowland comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost 300 square miles (800 km) on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The manors within

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1078-504: The Liberty were Slaidburn ( Newton-in-Bowland , West Bradford , Grindleton ) Knowlmere , Waddington , Easington , Bashall Eaves , Mitton , Withgill (Crook) , Leagram , Hammerton and Dunnow (Battersby) . Pendle Forest was also part of the Honor of Clitheroe, but administered as part of the Forest of Blackburnshire , entirely in Lancashire. Gradale, in the northeastern extremity of

1127-514: The Old Norse boga-/bogi- , meaning a "bend in a river". It is a 10th-century coinage used to describe the topography of the Hodder basin, with its characteristic meandering river and brooks. The Domesday Bogeuurde is an instance of this usage – the placename thought to designate Barge Ford (formerly known as Boward), a ford that sits on the wide, pronounced bend of the Hodder at its confluence with Foulscales Brook, due south-west of Newton. Before

1176-521: The Trough of Bowland and all of the south-east of the Forest from Winfold Fell to Croasdale Fell as far east as Gisburn Forest. It also forms Birkett, Waddington, Easington and Grindleton fells, south of Slaidburn. The Bowland Visitor Centre is located in Beacon Fell Country Park in the AONB. It is managed by Lancashire County Council Countryside Service and provides visitors with information about

1225-680: The West Saxons, as a spoil of war. In 934, he granted it to Wulfstan I , Archbishop of York . According to Aethelstan's grant, Amounderness at that time stretched "from the sea along the Cocker to the source of that river, from that source straight to another spring which is called in Old English , "Dunshop" , thus down the rivulet to the Hodder , in the same direction to the Ribble and thus along that river through

1274-473: The area's many villages and communities include Chipping Steam Fair, [2] the Hodder Valley Show, [3] Slaidburn Steam and Vintage Vehicle display, [4] and Wray Scarecrow Festival, amongst others. 53°57′N 2°35′W  /  53.95°N 2.59°W  / 53.95; -2.59 Gritstone " Millstone Grit " is an informal term for a succession of gritstones which are to be found in

1323-610: The eastern portion of Amounderness into the Lordship of Bowland for the first time. By the end of the 11th century, the Forest and Liberty came into the possession of the De Lacys , Lords of Pontefract . In 1102, along with the grant of the adjacent fee of Clitheroe and further holdings in Hornby and Amounderness, they came to form the basis of what became known as the Honor of Clitheroe . In 1311,

1372-479: The easternmost boundary of the territory of Amounderness in the 9th century and are cited in a grant made by King Athelstan to Wulfstan of York in 934 AD. The area is historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire (and was administered by West Riding County Council until the 1974 reorganisation of local government). From the late 11th century, Dunsop was part of the ancient Lordship of Bowland which comprised

1421-430: The ecology and landscape of the area by bad land management practices. Large parts of moorland are still managed for grouse shooting . The Abbeystead estate holds the record for the largest number of grouse killed in one day, when on 12 August 1915, 2,929 birds were shot by just eight hunters. 38,940.5 acres (15,759 ha) of the Bowland Fells is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The area

1470-423: The fells are dotted with stone-built farms and small villages and are criss-crossed by drystone walls enclosing reclaimed moorland pasture. Steep-sided wooded valleys link the upland and lowland landscapes. In the north-east of the area are extensive coniferous plantations and the eastern limestone areas support high-quality species-rich meadows. Caves in the area include Hell Hole, Whitewell Cave and Whitewell Pot. It

1519-485: The forest, grew in population as new land was made available for colonisation. In the mediaeval period, it was a pasture of the Cistercian grange of Rushton on the upper Hodder. In 1537, its manor house , Kirkstall Abbey , was dissolved. Tenements began appearing in the area from the mid-16th century. By 1650, the lower land of the forest had been almost completely cleared of woods, then divided into small plots, with only

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1568-708: The forest. The last herd of wild deer is reported to have been destroyed in 1805. In recent decades extensive peatland restoration work has been carried out in the AONB [1] , with over 755 hectares of blanket bog being restored since 2010 through the co-operation of estates including Abbeystead estate, which is owned by Grosvenor estates, Whitewell estate, which is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster, United Utility's Bowland estate and organisations such as Natural England, Lancashire Wildlife Trusts, Yorkshire Peat Partnership, Wyre Rivers Trust and Ribble Rivers Trust, amongst others. This ongoing work has helped to undo decades of damage caused to

1617-426: The hen harrier instead. The RSPB takes the view that driven grouse shoots should be licensed so that, for example, crimes committed on estates managed for shooting should result in the withdrawal of their right to operate. Bowland Beth: The Life of an English Hen Harrier , a 2017 book by film director David Cobham , studies the persecution of the hen harrier on the grouse moors of the Forest of Bowland. In 2014 it

1666-435: The higher land remaining open. Whereas their forebears of the 16th century lived in "crude timber and thatch cottages", the farmers of the following century were likely inhabiting stone farmhouses. In October 1652, Parliament had made a survey of the area, when it was an estate of the Duchy of Lancaster formerly belonging to Charles I . The survey showed that the forest was not just a demesne hunting ground, and that, since

1715-557: The hills are Clougha Pike (413 m or 1,355 ft), Grit Fell (468 m or 1,535 ft), Ward's Stone (561 m or 1,841 ft), Wolfhole Crag (527 m or 1,729 ft), White Hill (544 m or 1,785 ft), Whins Brow (476 m or 1,562 ft), Totridge (496 m or 1,627 ft), Parlick (432 m or 1,417 ft), Fair Snape Fell (510 m or 1,670 ft), Bleasdale Moor (429 m or 1,407 ft), and Hawthornthwaite Fell (478 m or 1,568 ft). The area contains, by one definition,

1764-460: The middle of the channel to the sea". As such, Amounderness encompassed a significant portion of western and south-western Bowland. Ekwall thus describes the eastern boundary of Amounderness as "being formed by the fells on the Yorkshire border"; a description which places the ancient boundary firmly within the modern-day Forest of Bowland. While it is difficult to pinpoint Dunshop , the confluence of

1813-604: The restoration of Charles II . The Lordship of Bowland then descended through the Montagu , Buccleuch and Towneley families. Bowbearers of the Forest of Bowland have been appointed since the 12th century. A Bowbearer was originally a noble who acted as ceremonial attendant to the Lord of Bowland , latterly the king, by bearing (carrying) his hunting bow, but over the centuries the Bowbearer's role underwent many changes. In April 2010, it

1862-680: The river. On 8 August 1967, Dunsop Valley entered the UK Weather Records with the highest 90-min total rainfall at 117 mm (4½"). As of July 2006, this record remains. The village is surrounded on all sides by the rolling hills of the Forest of Bowland and is located within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty . Nearby is the Salter Fell Track, a pass along which the Lancashire Witches are believed to have been taken to their trial at Lancaster Castle . The rivers formed

1911-433: The rivers Dunsop and Hodder at Dunsop Bridge seems a likely locale, situated as it is close to the eastern mouth of the Trough of Bowland, whose Grey Stone marks the line of the pre-1974 county boundary. Contrary to the popular histories, the origins of the name "Bowland" have nothing to do with archery ("the land of the bow") or with mediaeval cattle farms or vaccaries (Old Norse, buu- , farmstead). The name derives from

1960-508: The village centre, was home to John Towneley , 13th Lord of Bowland , in the period up until his death in 1878. Before that, it had been home to Richard Eastwood, a breeder of racehorses and shorthorn cattle. Eastwood was land agent to the Towneleys and the last known Bowbearer of Bowland. He died in 1871 and is buried at St Hubert's, Dunsop Bridge. In 2009, it was reported that Charles Towneley Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan , on behalf of

2009-431: The village is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire , but was placed under the administration of Lancashire County Council on 1 April 1974. It is often cited as the geographic centre of Great Britain , although the exact point is at Whitendale Hanging Stones, near Brennand Farm , 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 km) north of the village. In 1992, BT installed its 100,000th payphone at Dunsop Bridge and included

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2058-465: Was announced that the Forest of Bowland would be one of the SPAs included in a European Union LIFE project designed to ensure a sustainable future for Hen harriers in England and Scotland. Called "Conserving the hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) in northern England and southern and eastern Scotland", the project aimed to work constructively with landowners and the shooting community. In 2015 a single chick fledged in

2107-522: Was built by Edward Pugin for Colonel Charles Towneley of Towneley Hall , Burnley . Local tradition claims that it was paid for from the winnings of Colonel Towneley's horse, Kettledrum , which won the 1861 Epsom Derby . The church was opened on 2 May 1865 by Richard Roskell the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham , becoming part of the RC Diocese of Leeds. In 1988 parish was transferred to

2156-536: Was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1964. The AONB also includes a detached part known as the Forest of Pendle separated from the main part by the Ribble Valley, and anciently a royal 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

2205-683: Was disbanded following the abolition of a copyhold by the Law of Property Act in 1922. General forest law in Britain was finally repealed by statute in 1971, more than 900 years after its introduction by the Normans . The original Bowland Forest courts appear to have been held at Hall Hill near Radholme Laund before moving to Whitewell sometime in the 14th century. The Industrial Revolution had little impact on Bowland, as it had no coal reserves or valleys with fast flowing streams to power wool and cotton industries. There

2254-508: Was reported that the current 16th Lord of Bowland had revived the office of Bowbearer and appointed Robert Redmayne Parker the first Bowbearer of the Forest in almost 150 years. The Forest of Bowland had its own forest courts – woodmote and swainmote – from early times. These appear to have been abandoned in the 1830s around the time of Peregrine Towneley's acquisition of the Bowland Forest Estate. The halmote court at Slaidburn

2303-624: Was revealed to be a Cambridge University don who specialises in the history of Lancashire, its place names and dialects and has ancestral links to the forest. The 16th Lord made an official visit to the village in April 2011. His Bowbearer , Robert Redmayne Parker , was in attendance, together with representatives from the Bowland Higher Division Parish Council, the Forest authorities, community leaders and other dignitaries. The Roman Catholic Church church of St. Hubert 's

2352-582: Was some small-scale lead mining and lime production, quarrying and paper and cotton mills. St Hubert , the patron saint of hunting, is also the patron saint of the Forest of Bowland and has a chapel dedicated to him in Dunsop Bridge . This chapel was founded by Richard Eastwood of Thorneyholme, land agent to the Towneley family. Eastwood was the last known Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland. An acclaimed breeder of racehorses and shorthorn cattle, he died in 1871 and

2401-496: Was that the land was sold off, but the Chase of Bowland (as it was then known) remained under the ownership of the Duchy for a further decade. In 1661, the 28 manors contained within the former Honor of Clitheroe, including the Forest and Liberty of Bowland, were granted by the Crown to General George Monck as part of the creation of the Dukedom of Albemarle . Monck had been a key figure in

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