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Use the controls on the image to zoom in and move around the map. Pendle Hill Fox does not mention precisely where the inn at which he stayed after climbing Pendle was. There are several candidates: Downham, Sawley, or Grindleton, where he may have hoped to meet the Grindletonians, whose teachings about the Spirit were very like his. But there is no evidence for any of these places, and he does not mention meeting with anyone except the proprietor of the inn, male or female. In the Short Journal the alewife woman disseminates his papers ‘in the Markett’. There was a market at Gisburn on Mondays; Sawley also had a chartered market; so, further afield, did Skipton and Slaidburn and of course Burnley. There are no markets mentioned at Downham or Grindleton. Where he went next is a matter of conjecture. In the Long Journal he says, ‘And ye next day wee passed on: & att night wee gott a litle farnes or brackens & lay vpon a Common:
&: ye next morninge went to a tounde & soe there Rich ffarnsworth parted with mee & then I was alone againe’. (Where was Farnsworth going?) In the Short Journal it is ‘then I passed away; and came
to a house, and the man would have given mee money’ (which he refused) ‘and so I passed away being among ye fell Countreys, and lay out all night, and a stranger’. The next place
mentioned in both versions is the ‘market town’ which appears to be Askrigg. The most obvious way of getting to Askrigg is via Skipton (see next map), in which case he would have followed
what is now the A59; but the view from Pendle Hill may have inspired him to go further north, branching off at Gisburn to Long Preston or Settle. He seems unclear as to exactly when he visited James Tennant at
Hubberholme.
Cary's map shows the possible routes from the north of Pendle Hill to Skipton in 1793. The red/yellow line is the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, which was reassigned in 1974. Gisburn is now in Lancashire.  |