Book Description
Full of historical facts and liberally laced with tales of hauntings, witchery and enchantment - the moors, valleys and mossland of Lancashire are the backdrop to this new, comprehensive gazetteer of the county's towns and villages. Michael Smout is keen to emphasise that Lancashire's austere, industrial mill towns often obscure a rich, varied, often eerie past. Pendle, in the depths of central Lancashire, is witch country, Claughton bears the story of the house that moved, whilst Chingle Hall near Goosenargh is reputedly the most haunted in the country.