Barrowford, The White Bear Inn c.1950
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Barrowford is where the Pendle Witches Trail begins. The forty-five mile route takes the visitor through historic villages and on to Lancaster Castle via the Trough of Bowland. This famous coaching inn is situated in that part of Barrowford which stretches along Gisburn Road, where many interesting old properties stand; it was built originally as the great house of the Hargreaves family, and it is the largest 17th-century building in the village. The datestone reads 1607, but 1697 is a more accurate date: the original datestone was misread owing to weathering when rebuilding of the inn took place in 1912. When John Hargreaves died in 1713, an inventory of his house was made room by room, from the milk house to the great parlour. The building has been an inn since 1775; the name no doubt refers to the cruel practice of bear baiting, a common entertainment in these days.
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