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My Lancashire by Scott the Bowland Beer Brewer

Scott works for the multi award-winning Bowland Brewery based at Holmes Mill in Clitheroe.

Q. What do you love most about living and working in Lancashire?
A. By far, the thing I love most about Lancashire is it’s breath-taking countryside. Step out of any town and your eyes and lungs are treated to miles of rich landscape, history, and clean air. Living and working on the edge of Bowland also provides me with an abundance of exhilarating walking and motorcycle routes.

Q. What’s your favourite pub?
A. I have collected many fuzzy memories between the walls of the New Inn in Clitheroe. Character is key here. And the New Inn has plenty of it. The multi-roomed layout allows for a mix of all ages and opinions, making it easy to find good conversation. Live music can be heard regularly, by musicians that seem to just appear between pints. The beer is always in good condition and the selection regularly changes which includes Bowland Ales next to a core of house favourites.

Lancashire Spa Guide - You deserve it!

We all deserve a bit of luxury every now and then. The opportunity to escape from the day to day and to feel thoroughly relaxed and indulged. Lancashire has become quite a hot spot for award winning spa breaks and is also home to Woodland Spa who have taken the title of Best Global Luxury Day Spa for two years running.

We’ve put together a handy guide (in our 2017 Lancashire Visitor magazine) featuring our three top Spas so you can choose the best Spa for you - these are The SPA Hotel at Ribby Hall Village, Stanley House Hotel & Spa and The Woodland Spa. And relax.....

 

 

2017 Highlights #Wherelifefeelsgood

With new restaurants, hotels, unusual accommodation offerings and a host exciting events, 2017 is already shaping up to be another exciting year for Lancashire. Here’s a quick preview of the highlights but you can read more in the 2017 Lancashire Visitor magazine

New gourmet destination
Led by award winning chef Mark Birchall the brand new Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms in Aughton will open its doors in March. Lancashire born Mark Birchall, who was most recently the Executive Chef of 2 Michelin Star L’Enclume in the Lake District, is at the helm of this new Lancashire gourmet experience. Read more

Hamlet and Huts
After opening the Shepherd Hut Hamlet in 2016, Samlesbury Hall will be adding more new Shepherd Huts in 2017. These colourful huts provide a rustic and carefree alternative to a traditional hotel room. Beautifully handcrafted, complete with two double beds, electricity and cosy en suite. Read more

New life for the Mill
Holmes Mill, on the edge of Clitheroe town centre, is already part way through its transformation into the town’s latest food and drink experience. In addition to the stunning Beer Hall (with the longest bar in Britain), café, gelateria and shop, a first phase of hotels rooms will open in May. Read more

My Lancashire by Nigel Haworth

Chef Patron of the multi award winning Northcote and Ribble Valley Inns group, and all round Lancashire food champion, Nigel Haworth tell us about his Lancashire.

Q. What do you love about living in Lancashire?
A. I am very fortunate that I live in a beautiful village called Ribchester in the Ribble Valley and have access to the Trough of Bowland and the beautiful Bowland Fells. Despite living in a small village surrounded by farmland and hills we’re not that far from Blackburn and Preston – its great being able to get around the county so quickly.

Q. What do you do to relax when you’re not in the kitchen?
A. Watching Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park is a big passion of mine, although it’s not very relaxing. I also enjoy running and walking through the fi elds and lanes around Ribchester. My wife and I take our Golden Retriever, Rocky up to Longridge Fell and Jeffrey Hill, all the space is so reinvigorating and the views across Lancashire and out to the coast are amazing.

Lancashire Visitor Magazine 2017

We are very excited to reveal our brand new Lancashire Visitor Magazine

 

Take a look - It's packed full of features, interviews and listings including

• A Lancashire Feast from our award winning chefs
• 24 hour Short Break Guides
• Brewing up a Storm – the award winning Bowland Brewery in its new home at Holmes Mill
• Lancashire Spa Guide – you deserve it!
• Lancashire from above – some of the stunning photography captured by SkyOptics
• Walk in the Footsteps of Literary greats
• 2017 Events & Festivals guide

Happy reading!

We look forward to welcoming you to Lancashire in 2017

For more information go to visitlancashire.com

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January in Lancashire

Treat yourself with a spa break • fly a kite on the beach • go bird spotting • visit an art gallery • drink hot chocolate • go to a traditional
Lancashire market • see the ballet • have a weekend break • build a log fire • go dry slope skiing • face your fear and tackle an indoor climbing wall • build a snowman • take a taste of Lancashire cookery course at Northcote.

 

Event Highlights

OBSESSION - Northcote, 20 Jan - 5 Feb 2017

17 years of culinary excellence at Northcote. It’s a feast in every sense of the word, a celebration, a fiesta, a festival of incredible food and wine.

The Nutcracker - Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 16 Jan 2017

Performed by The Russian State Ballet of Siberia and accompanied by a live orchestra The Orchestra of the Russian State Ballet. As snowflakes fall outside, the warm glow of the open fire sends flickering shadows across the boughs of the Christmas tree and all the presents beneath.

Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music - Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 21 Jan 2017

Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music is a screening of the classic Julie Andrews film musical in glorious, full-screen Technicolor, complete with lyric subtitles so that the whole audience can sing along.