Tynedale Farm
FENCE (NEAR BURNLEY), LANCASHIRE



It is beleived that the building at Tynedale Farm was probably built in approximately 1750 although there was a house on the site dating far earlier. Along with the nearby Lower Well Head Farm, Tynedale was allegedly used as a meeting place for the notorious Pendle Witches and their coven during the early seventeenth Century. The Pendle Coven was believed to have been responsible for the murder by witchcraft of seventeen people in and around the forest of Pendle. On Good Friday 1612 an important meeting of the witches, thought to be a 'Sabbat', a major Wiccan festival, took place nearby and many of those who attended were later tried and hanged. Tynedale Farm is now owned by the Nutter family, descendents of Alice Nutter, one of the Pendle Witches executed in 1612. An apparition of a monk is frequently seen in the area surrounding the farm while a hooded figure has been seen kneeling by the road outside.