Patrons will be sent a printed zine titled ‘Pennine 500’ detailing three sections of the route, photos from across the trail and stories from those who call this place home.

Restoring Greg’s Hut

Pennine Flower Folklore

The Lost Head of Black Pit

Account of a Drovers’ Inn in 1792

Metamorphism at the Eagles Chair

Westmorland and Scandinavian Salt

Black Snails and Wensleydale Cheese

Lily Cove: tragic aeronaut of the 1906 Haworth Gala

Communal Life in a Dales Village: Flax, the Batting Stone and the Kiln

Pennine 500: The Howgills Lost Highway

Pennine 500: Bowland Fells and the Salt Road

Pennine 500: Green Lanes over Great Asby Scar

Publication date is January 8th, 2027

 
 
 
 
 

INspirational bit

 

Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride

Eddy Merckx

 

You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t. And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.

Keith Mills

 

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

 

And the moors were always there and never without their promise.

J.B.Priestley

Bright Days (1944)

 

Water, that strong white stuff, can here be seen at its origins. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain (1977)