There is plenty to do in the local area if you are looking for some exploration during your stay. Below we have listed a few places in the individual areas close by to 'wet your whistle...'
These are all in the links below - click on the name and away you go. The bridge pictured is Cromwell Bridge and is one of our favourite places to walk.
First and foremost the epicentre of our lives - get to know the village with our very own page with everything from jam jars for sale to cow rustling 'Your Ribchester'
Longridge:
Fullaloves for lovely Tapas & superb wine
Mrs Sippy for lite tacos and swanky cocktails
Just outside Ribchester with some questionable decor - but very fancy, amazing food - Angels
Clitheroe
- Tom’s Table
- Everyman Cinema and Holmes Mill Clitheroe
- Rustic cheese board and setting the world to rights over a glass of red wine in Georgonzola
- Cocktails at The Parlour
- Brizola for Greek food
- The famous Exchange Coffee for, well coffee & cake
- Hike up Pendle Hill location of the Pendle Witch Trials (Then pop into Downham to the Asherton Arms for lunch or a pint)
- Stydd Gardens in Ribchester for retail therapy, superb wine and charcuterie at The Shed in a beautiful setting
- Beacon Fell and Country Park
- Rivington Brewing Co (Not in the Valley but very cool)
- Waffles/Brunch at Samlesbury Hall
- Brockholes Nature Reserve to blow away the cobwebs
- Barton Grange - Award winning garden centre and tea rooms with curling available at the next door Flower Bowl to get you in the zone for a Scottish celebration.
- Dunsop Bridge and get a selfie at the middle point of the UK!
- Pendle Sculpture Park Trail is fab, can park in Barley, get a coffee in the car park and have a pint in the Pendle Inn after! It is thirsty work walking!
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For those travelling from Ribchester, travel arrangements are being made by our master of logistics Paul Dunne, he can be contacted on 07791 153 146