The walking group met yesterday in the village of Barley, Lancashire, set at the foot of Pendle Hill, an area renowned for the history of the “trials” of the Pendle Witches some 400 years ago. During an era of religious persecution and suspicion they were the convenient scapegoats of the day. One group stayed down in the valley and took a route around Black Moss Reservoirs and the Pendle Sculpture Trail, which has ten ceramic plaques representing each of the Pendle people who were hanged. The other group took to the hills, and took the steady climb through beautiful heathland, to the summit of the hill which is 1827 ft. (557 metres) above sea level.
Which witch is which?
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