Pendle District

Colne Water is a small river near the town of Colne in North-West England. It is formed at Covey Bridge by the confluence of the River Laneshaw and Wycoller Beck. From there the river runs in a westerly direction via Cottontree to join Pendle Water at Lowerford. The Brown colouration of the water is caused by peat particles from the hills and moors which surround the area. Photographed on a very cold and frosty morning whilst walking from Brierfield to Trawden. Camera Nikon D90 and processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

In 1652, during the early years of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), their founder George Fox claimed to have had a vision on top of Pendle Hill. "As we travelled, 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. As I went down, I found a spring of water in the side of the hill, with which I refreshed myself, having eaten or drunk but little for several days before." (George Fox: An Autobiography, Chapter 6) Today Pendle remains strongly linked to the Quakers, giving its name to one of their centres for religious and spiritual study and contemplation in the United States. (Wikipedia).

The packhorse bridge in the Pendle village of Wycoller. This bridge is one of three ancient bridges in Wycoller and a popular destination for locals and tourists alike. The footpath over this bridge has been eroded by centuries of use (mainly by clog-wearing hand-loom weavers in pre-industrial times) and is deeply grooved. Both arches are leaning slightly sideways as the result of many years of heavy use.

This was originally a daytime photo of the frozen Leeds-Liverpool canal which didn't turn out the way I intended, so I did a bit of "tweaking" with PicMonkey to add the night sky and turned it into an evening shot using the "opacity" tool in my Nikon NX2 software. The camera used was a Nikon D300s.

A telephoto view looking towards Raven's Clough wood, photographed from Brierfield (Approx.1 mile away) using a Nikon D90 camera and AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens (450mm full-frame equivalent). Processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

Photographed near the village of Newchurch in Pendle, North-West England, using a Nikon D90 camera and AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED lens. One of my first photos with this camera and the "kit" lens.

A group of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) flying home at the end of the day before an approaching storm. Photographed near Lake Burwain at Foulridge in Pendle district, North-West England. The camera used was a Nikon D300s fitted with a Nikkor AF-S VR 70-200MM F2.8 IF ED II telephoto lens and the processing was done with Nikon Capture NX2.

These people were apparently trying to work out how to open the lock-gates on the Leeds-Liverpool canal at Barrowford, North-West England (they eventually succeeded). Photographed with a Nikon D300s camera and a Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens. Processing was done with Nikon Capture NX2.

One from my archives....a shot of a young bullock taken with my first digital SLR near the village of Roughlee in Pendle district, North-West England. In the distance is Blacko Tower, a well-known local Victorian "folly". Processed with Nikon Capture NX2 software.

"What are these, so withered, and so wild in their attire, that look not like th' inhabitants o' the Earth, and yet are on't ?" (Shakespeare: Macbeth). This photograph was taken with one of my first digital cameras, an Olympus AZ-1 compact which had a very low-resolution sensor by today's standards. Photographed outside "Witches Galore", a Gift and Souvenir shop in the village of Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire, North-West England. Processed with Nikon NX2 software. (Title & quote from "The Scottish play").

Could this be where "The Doctor" spends his time between trips through space and time? Seen on the Leeds-Liverpool canal near Barrowford in Pendle district, North-West England, and photographed using a Nikon D90 camera. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

A group of sheep "sheepishly" following each other in "V Formation", photographed in a field next to the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Nelson, Lancashire, in the North-West of England. Photographed with a Nikon D300s camera and processed with Nikon Capture NX2 software.

Photographed near the village of Blacko in the district of Pendle, North-West England, looking West towards Pendle Hill and the village of Barley. Photographed with a Nikon D90 DSLR camera and processed with Nikon NX2 software.

A Winter view of Pendle Hill, photographed a year ago from the banks of Pendle Water, a small river near Barrowford in Pendle district, North-West England. The river (in the foreground) was partly frozen and so were the flood-waters which can be seen in the fields. The camera used was a Nikon D90 and the processing was done with Nikon NX2 software.

Photographed in early Spring at Lake Burwain near the village of Foulridge in the district of Pendle, North-West England, using a Panasonic TZ10 compact camera. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

Photographed at Wycoller Country Park in Pendle district, North-West England, on a cold day in February. This "Picnic area" is usually full of tourists who feed the ducks but there were very few people on this occasion and the ducks seemed quite lost and confused with nobody to feed them. Photographed with a Nikon D90 camera and processed with Nikon Capture NX2 software.

Rising on Pendle Hill in East Lancashire, Pendle Water cuts a deep valley between Barley Moor and Spence Hill where it feeds the Ogden Reservoirs before making its way Eastward through Roughlee, draining the valley near Wheathead at Water Meetings (1 mile to the West of Blacko village), then moving South by Higherford and Barrowford where it is joined by Colne Water. Pendle Water subsequently runs by the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate West of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to its confluence with the River Calder in Reedley Hallows, North-West of Burnley.

My very first photograph using a DSLR (Nikon D90 with the 18-105mm lens). Processed with Nikon Capture NX2. Leucanthemum vulgare, the ox-eye daisy (syn. Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), is a widespread flowering plant native to Europe and the temperate regions of Asia and an introduced plant to North America, Australia and New Zealand. It is one of a number of Asteraceae family plants to be called a "daisy" and has the vernacular names: common daisy, dog daisy, moon daisy, and oxe-eye daisy. Leucanthemum vulgare is a typical grassland perennial wildflower, growing in a variety of plant communities including meadows and fields, under scrub and open-canopy forests and in disturbed areas. Leucanthemum is from the Ancient Greek λευκός ("white") and ἄνθεμον ("flower"). (Wikipedia)