The pure beauty in a scene like this is almost indescribable. It's no surprise to me to learn that this village is an extremely favourite haunt of artists and painters.
What a gorgeous scene the above would make if painted.
Some artists could really play about with that. Remove the modern road and cars,
street lamp and anything else of a modern nature (including the cone) and let go with a dirt road in place and perhaps a stage coach.
Words fail me at times.
A little from The Net to close the posts for tonight.
This majestic, but brooding hill lies east of Clitheroe, set amongst a number of villages. It is a very romantic hill, spiritually associated with George Fox's vision in 1652, the 17th century Lancashire Witches, and the location both for the book "Mist over Pendle" and the film "Whistle Down the Wind". The hill stands at 1827 ft and varies in width from one to three miles. The top offers breathtaking views across the Forest of Bowland, the Yorkshire Dales and on clear days, the Lake District. The historical relevance of Pendle Hill gives it a bleak and eerie quality. It was used as a burial ground in the Bronze age and a 7,000 year old burial mound can be found on the top. More recently in the 17th century the events which led to the hanging of the Pendle Witches took place. The evidence against them was hardly conclusive, but nonetheless a considerable mythology has grown up around the witches, whose memory is perpetuated by a hilltop gathering each Halloween. Forty years after these events, George Fox claimed to have seen a vision of God on the summit, which led him to form the Quaker Movement. People still follow his route today in remembrance of the 1652 assent. ("As we traveled, we came near a very great hill, called Pendle Hill, and I was moved of the Lord to go up to the top of it; which I did with difficulty, it was so very steep and high. When I was come to the top, I saw the sea bordering upon Lancashire. From the top of this hill the Lord let me see in what places he had a great people to be gathered." from : - Journal of George Fox, Chapter VI, A New Era Begins, 1652) The Lancashire witches
Pendle HillPendle Hill has special significance for the Quaker movement, as it was here that George Fox had his vision which led to the formation of the Quaker religion in 1652. But the hill is most famous because of the legend of the Lancashire Witches. SEE ALSO WEB LINKS Lancaster Castle FACTSMother Demdike died awaiting trail at the age of 80. It was during the reign of King James I that Old Mother Demdike and Old Chattox, two old widows living near Pendle Hill, and other members of their families, were accused of witchcraft and were sent to Lancaster Castle for trial. In total 19 people local to the Pendle area were put in the dark, 30 feet below ground in a small dungeon in Lancaster Castle, and kept there for five months on a diet of bread and gruel. When they were tried five months later they could hardly speak. There was no counsel or legal advice, and the star prosecution witness, who they could not challenge, was nine years old. Mother Demdike died awaiting trail at the age of 80. 
Ten of them were hanged on 20th August 1612. There was no drop involved, meaning a slow strangulation in front of large crowds who had travelled to Lancaster for the spectacle.
By the time of the last English witchcraft trial in 1712, up to 1,000 people had been executed. One event was famously and offically recorded as "The wonderful discovery of witches in Lancashire."
Almost 400 years later witches are part of the local identity in Pendle, and they brand everything from beer to hot air balloons. The places in their story have become part of a tourist trail.
There is even a campaign to pardon them.
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