A long whaleback hill standing over the Lancashire villages, best known for the Pendle witch trials of 1612
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Pendle Hill is a broad whaleback of a hill, 557m high, standing on its own above the villages on the edge of the Forest of Bowland. Its name is bound up with the Pendle witch trials of 1612, when a dozen local people were accused of witchcraft and most were hanged, a story the nearby villages still trade on. In 1652 George Fox climbed the hill and had the vision that led him to found the Quakers. The usual way up is the steep path from Barley, a short but sharp pull onto the flat top and its wide views over Lancashire.
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