Weekend Outing: White Hill and Jeppe Knave Grave
Having spent most of my recent weekends working away getting my new house in order, I managed to get out on a long overdue walk. In fact, I went on two walks, both fairly short. The first took me to the north east of the Forest of Bowland, where from the cross of greet I walked up White Hill, which is classified as a Marilyn. On the return journey back to Langho, I stopped at the car park on the nick of Pendle and visited "Jeppe Knave Grave." White Hill is 1785 feet. It lies to the east of the remote Wolf Hole Crag and to the south of the village of High Bentham just over the boarder in Yorkshire. There is a small parking area beside the cross of greet. The cross of greet, which used to form the boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire is a sandstone slab with a fairly shallow, square shaped hole. As the name suggests, some believe the hole is a socket which previously held the foundations of a cross. But others are sceptical of this theory on the basis that the hole is quit