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A self-guided audio tour of the places linked with the people accused in the Lancashire witch trials of 1612, told from the record and read as the prosecution's account it is. It starts in Barley with the pedlar John Law and Alizon Device on the road near Colne, offers the climb to Big End on Pendle Hill, where George Fox had his vision in 1652, and passes the seventeenth-century cottage found at Lower Black Moss in 2011, with its walled-up cat. Then the sculpture trail in Aitken Wood, with a plaque for each of the ten people hanged, and St Mary's at Newchurch, the parish church of most of the accused. At Roughlee, David Palmer's statue of Alice Nutter, a widow of some standing who made no confession; at Blacko, the uncertain site of Malkin Tower and the Good Friday meeting; and at Park Hill, the start of the Lancashire Witches Walk to Lancaster.
8 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 29 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 7 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Barley, below Pendle Hill, Pendle Hill summit, Lower Black Moss and the buried cottage, Pendle Sculpture Trail, Aitken Wood, St Mary's, Newchurch-in-Pendle.
Alice Nutter statue, Roughlee, Blacko and the Malkin Tower question.
Pendle Heritage Centre, Park Hill.
Big End, about 557 metres up, from which you can see the villages where the accused lived and the moors towards Lancaster.
A seventeenth-century weaver's house found in 2011, with a mummified cat sealed in a wall, and nothing to tie it to Malkin Tower.
A woodland trail opened in 2012, with ten ceramic plaques by Sarah McDade, one for each person hanged.
The parish church of most of the accused, with the Eye of God on its tower and a Nutter grave that is not Alice's.
David Palmer's shackled figure of the Roughlee widow who made no confession and was hanged at Lancaster on 20 August 1612.
Where the Good Friday meeting of 1612 may have taken place; the tower on the hill is a folly of 1890.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 8 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 8 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in The Pendle Witches — Barley, Newchurch, Roughlee and the 1612 Trials, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
8 narration points, including Barley, below Pendle Hill, Pendle Hill summit, Lower Black Moss and the buried cottage, Pendle Sculpture Trail, Aitken Wood and St Mary's, Newchurch-in-Pendle. That is about 19 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~4 hours, plus 2 for the summit total, but you walk at your own pace. 8 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.