Overview
Pendle Heritage Centre occupies Park Hill, a seventeenth-century farmhouse associated with the Bannister family at Barrowford. It connects Pendle's farm landscape with the textile growth that transformed its villages and family work.
Why it was built
occupies Park Hill, a seventeenth-century farmhouse associated with the Bannister family at Barrowford.
People and work
Farm households and textile communities shaped the site before heritage workers restored it for public use.
How it changed
Domestic and farm buildings became galleries, an archive and meeting rooms about Pendle life and industry.
What survives
The stone house, barn, garden, vernacular rooms, textiles, photographs and local records survive.
Why it mattered
It connects Pendle's farm landscape with the textile growth that transformed its villages and family work.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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