Qualla: Pendle Hill https://qualla.com/pendle-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:23 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/6/pendle-hill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pendle Hill https://qualla.com/pendle-hill Pendle Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/pendle-hill/ Photo credit Karl1587, CC BY-SA 3.0. In August 1612, ten people from the villages around this hill were hanged at Lancaster Castle for witchcraft. Forty years later, in 1652, a wandering preacher named George Fox climbed the same hill and had a vision that started the Quaker movement. Nine years after that, in 1661, the gentleman scientist Richard Towneley carried a Torricelli barometer to the summit and back to prove that atmospheric pressure changes with altitude. Three events; three different sevententh-century minds at work on the same Lancashire ridge. Pendle Hill is 557 metres of gritstone and peat, and the seventeenth century never quite leaves it alone.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/6/pendle-hill-wp/gcw6-pendle-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pendle Hill: The Hill's Name https://qualla.com/pendle-hill/ Photo credit michael ely, CC BY-SA 2.0. Pendle Hill means "hill hill hill." In the 13th century it was called Pennul or Penhul, from the Cumbric pen meaning "hill" and the Old English hyll meaning the same. When pen lost its original meaning to English speakers, they appended a modern "hill" to clarify. The result is a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/6/pendle-hill-wp/gcw6-pendle-hill-the-hills-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Pendle Hill: The Women on Trial https://qualla.com/pendle-hill/ Photo credit Dr Greg, CC BY-SA 3.0. The accused were almost all poor women, most from two rival families living in the Pendle Forest villages of Newchurch and Roughlee. Elizabeth Southerns, known as Demdike, was in her eighties and blind; she died in Lancaster Castle's dungeon before trial. Her daughter Elizabeth D...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/6/pendle-hill-wp/gcw6-pendle-hill-the-women-on-trial.mp3 0:06 3 full Pendle Hill: George Fox's Vision https://qualla.com/pendle-hill/ Photo credit Karl1587, Public domain. George Fox was twenty-eight years old in the spring of 1652, a wandering preacher who had broken with every existing Christian denomination because none of them seemed to him true to direct experience of God. He climbed Pendle Hill that May, and at the top he saw, in his own word...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/6/pendle-hill-wp/gcw6-pendle-hill-george-foxs-vision.mp3 0:06 4 full Pendle Hill: The Hill Itself https://qualla.com/pendle-hill/ Photo credit Graham Demaline, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk up from Barley village on the east side. The path climbs steeply through grazing land, then onto the open moor where curlews call in spring and grouse explode from heather in autumn. The summit plateau is broad and exposed; in cloud you can lose your bearings quickly. On cle...

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