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Pendle Hill

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Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Clitheroe and Padiham. [1]

81 relations: Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Barley, Lancashire, Barley-with-Wheatley Booth, Barometer, Black Moss Reservoirs, Bredon Hill, Bronze Age, Burnley, Carboniferous, Carboniferous Limestone, Chronostratigraphy, Clitheroe, Colne, Cumbric, Downham, Lancashire, Forest of Bowland, George Fox, Ghost hunting, Guinness World Records, Halloween, Hang gliding, Ice age, Joseph Delaney, Kinder Scout, Lancashire, Lancashire County Council, Lancashire Witches Walk, Landslide, Marilyn (geography), Mearley Brook, Millstone Grit, Modern English, Moss, Most Haunted, Nelson, Lancashire, Newchurch in Pendle, Old English, Ordnance Survey, Padiham, Panorama, Paragliding, PDF, Peak District, Peat, Pendelfin, Pendle, Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Pendle Water, Pendle Way, Pendle witches, ..., Pendleton Brook, Pendleton, Lancashire, Pennines, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Plateau, Precipitation, Quakers, Richard Towneley, River Calder, Lancashire, River Ribble, Robert Neill (writer), Roughlee, Sabden, Sabden Brook, Sandstone, Sky Living, Sphagnum, Stage (stratigraphy), Summit, The Spook's Battle, The Wardstone Chronicles, Till, Topographic prominence, Type locality (geology), Vision (spirituality), Ward's Stone, West Pennine Moors, Witchcraft, Worcestershire, Yvette Fielding. Expand index (31 more) »

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Barley, Lancashire

Barley is a village in the borough of Pendle, in Lancashire, England.

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Barley-with-Wheatley Booth

Barley-with-Wheatley Booth is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England.

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Barometer

A barometer is a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure.

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Black Moss Reservoirs

Upper and Lower Black Moss Reservoirs are reservoirs close to the village of Barley, in the Borough of Pendle, close to the market town of Burnley, England.

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Bredon Hill

Bredon Hill is a hill in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Evesham in the Vale of Evesham.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Burnley

Burnley is a market town in Lancashire, England, with a population of 73,021.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Carboniferous Limestone

Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period.

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Chronostratigraphy

Chronostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy that studies the age of rock strata in relation to time.

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Clitheroe

Clitheroe is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, approximately northwest of Manchester, in Lancashire, England.

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Colne

Colne is a town and civil parish in Lancashire, England, six miles north-east of Burnley, 25 miles east of Preston, 25 miles north of Manchester and 30 miles west of Leeds.

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Cumbric

Cumbric was a variety of the Common Brittonic language spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" in what is now Northern England and southern Lowland Scotland.

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Downham, Lancashire

Downham is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England.

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Forest of Bowland

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).

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George Fox

George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

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Ghost hunting

Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are reported to be haunted by ghosts.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

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Hang gliding

Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Joseph Delaney

Joseph Henry Delaney (born 25 July 1945) is a British author of fantasy books.

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Kinder Scout

Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lancashire County Council

Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England.

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Lancashire Witches Walk

The Lancashire Witches Walk is a long-distance footpath opened in 2012, between Barrowford and Lancaster, all in Lancashire, England.

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Landslide

The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.

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Marilyn (geography)

A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a prominence of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit.

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Mearley Brook

Mearley Brook is a minor river in Lancashire, England.

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Millstone Grit

Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles.

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Modern English

Modern English (sometimes New English or NE as opposed to Middle English and Old English) is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed in roughly 1550.

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Moss

Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.

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Most Haunted

Most Haunted is a British paranormal reality television series.

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Nelson, Lancashire

Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 29,135 in 2011.

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Newchurch in Pendle

Newchurch in Pendle is a village in the civil parish of Goldshaw Booth, Pendle, Lancashire, England, adjacent to Barley, to the south of Pendle Hill.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey (OS) is a national mapping agency in the United Kingdom which covers the island of Great Britain.

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Padiham

Padiham is a small town and civil parish on the River Calder, about west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill, in Lancashire, England.

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Panorama

A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "sight") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images or a three-dimensional model.

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Paragliding

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Peat

Peat, also called turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter that is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.

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Pendelfin

Pendelfin is a company specializing in handcrafted and handpainted stoneware based in Burnley, Lancashire, England.

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Pendle

Pendle is a local government district and borough of Lancashire, England.

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Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation

Pendle Hill is a Quaker study, retreat and conference center located on a campus in suburban Wallingford, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.

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Pendle Water

Pendle Water is a minor river in Lancashire.

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Pendle Way

The Pendle Way is a Recreational Path in the South Pennines of England which encircles the borough of Pendle.

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Pendle witches

The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th century.

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Pendleton Brook

Pendleton Brook is a small river in Lancashire.

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Pendleton, Lancashire

Pendleton is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, within the county of Lancashire, England.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Richard Towneley

Richard Towneley (10 October 1629 – 22 January 1707) was an English mathematician, natural philosopher and astronomer from Towneley near Burnley, Lancashire.

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River Calder, Lancashire

The River Calder is a major tributary of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England and is around in length.

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River Ribble

The River Ribble runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire in Northern England.

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Robert Neill (writer)

Robert Geoffrey Neill was a popular writer of historical fiction, best known for his debut novel, Mist over Pendle, published in 1951, which has remained in print since first appearing.

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Roughlee

Roughlee is a village in Pendle, Lancashire, England, in the civil parish of Roughlee Booth.

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Sabden

Sabden is a medium-to-large village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England.

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Sabden Brook

Sabden Brook is a small river running through Lancashire in England.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Sky Living

Sky Living is a British television channel, airing in the United Kingdom and Ireland, owned and operated by Sky plc.

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Sphagnum

Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as peat moss.

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Stage (stratigraphy)

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.

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Summit

A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.

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The Spook's Battle

The Spook's Battle, written by Joseph Delaney, is the fourth story in The Wardstone Chronicles series.

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The Wardstone Chronicles

The Wardstone Chronicles, published as The Last Apprentice series in the U.S., is a dark fantasy series of books written by British author Joseph Delaney and published in the UK by The Bodley Head division of Random House Publishing.

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Till

Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

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Type locality (geology)

Type locality, also called type area, type site, or type section, is the locality where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit or mineral species is first identified.

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Vision (spirituality)

A vision is something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance that usually conveys a revelation.

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Ward's Stone

Ward's Stone is the highest hill in the Forest of Bowland, England.

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West Pennine Moors

The West Pennine Moors is an area of the Pennines covering approximately of moorland and reservoirs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.

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Worcestershire

Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England.

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Yvette Fielding

Yvette Paula Fielding (born 23 September 1968) is an English television presenter, producer and actress.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_Hill

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